Pricing Specialist - Air & Ocean Freight - Heathrow Personnel : Job Details

I'm recruiting for a Pricing Specialist to join an expanding freight forwarding company based in the Birmingham area. You must have AIR or OCEAN freight experience.

Daily duties will include:

• Receiving customer quotations
• Air & ocean freight pricing import, export and cross trade
• Negotiating rates with carriers, hauliers and suppliers
• Prepare and submit customer quotations and proposals within an agreed timeframe
• Creating and issuing quotations
• Communicate with customers to manage and follow up on all quotes, obtaining feedback to measure, analyse and circulate to relevant teams
• Track success and failure rate of quotes
• Develop and build relationships with customers
• Updating tariffs

Experience needed:

• Hands on operational and industry knowledge of air and seafreight inbound, outbound and crosstrade
• Ability to work under pressure
• Dangerous goods knowledge is preferable
• Strong numerical and commercial skills
• Excellent communication skills

Working hours:

• Monday - friday 0900am - 1730pm