YOUR ROLE
Execute the operational & commercial requirements for existing & future clients. This includes export/import air/ocean/ground operations in addition to day-to-day customer-facing duties. Furthermore, the role requires the use of existing business relationships to leverage future business opportunities
Liaise with Project Logistics team members worldwide and provide an efficient conduit that will facilitate product strategy to affect our price offers to clients through the development of logical pricing processes and technology. To support the sales development process by delivering back up support through identifying and preparing sales quotations that are developed at winning and keeping profitable business. To be an industry leader in professionally managing and delivering optimal pricing results through maintaining supplier relationships, origin relationships and developing and maintaining Bi Lateral Agreements globally.Strong focus on bid opportunities.
Close cooperation with Project Logistics stakeholders, products and country management with success rates performances as well as volumes performances. Improvement of success rates, internal sales success and KPI's metrics. Improvement of the current and future structure through constant analysis of reason for losses of opportunities.
WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
- Coordinates complex, regional and local pricing required to respond timely and effectively to complex, high revenue potential bids
- Assist to develop new sophisticated pricing tools, processes and systems to enhance the bidding process and increase our hit rate based on pricing logic
- Liaise with product experts to ensure the logic used in pricing processes and applications is resulting in appropriately calculated cost and profit
- Undertake negotiations with the Global CEVA network to design, develop and implement Bi Lateral agreements that effectively locks a country into delivering set price structures, performance results and service standards.
- Monitor Bi Lateral Agreement validities against all services offered such as air, sea and value added solutions.
- Effectively negotiate and drive rate reductions with origins to ensure that the local sales team is armed with effective selling rates to win and keep profitable business.
- Undertake regular meetings with our suppliers to ensure that local relationships are maintained and developed to drive stronger price returns.
- Process all export/import bookings, documentation and despatch requirements accurately and within agreed timeframes including liaising with carriers for pre bookings and allocations
- Ensure that document processing requirements meet agreed customer service standards, monitoring the shipments and ensure they are being processed correctly
- Must be able to manage and develop excel spreadsheets and graphs to reflect KPI output for customers and staff alike.
- Liaise with other departments as required to develop positive working relationships to ensure compliance and to limit unnecessary delays due to inadequate processes and non-compliance issues
- Must be able to drive motivational techniques, ideas and staff enhancements to ensure that a true team environment is being developed and maintained.
- Escalation of issues to management at both origin and local level to ensure that a customer is giving the attention required to meet timeline expectations
- Manage all RFQ’s that are received from start to finish, including price points, RFQ completion and follow up on success or decline of the submitted RFQ.
- Regularly gain pricing options against CEVA’s product listing including air, sea and ground freight price points, whilst always looking at developing new consolidated products with the Product Managers.
- Maintain a KPI of 24 hour maximum turnaround in offering finished quotations to both local staff and the Global Network when requested.
- Centrally upload all RFQ’s into the Master Quote Log so we as a team can monitor and trace quotations offered by way of success.
- Ensure to work with the team in centrally managing Bi-lateral agreements to ensure that contracted rates in air and sea freight supervisor