Expert – Tender Pricing (Ocean Freight)

About the role

The Ocean Freight Tender Pricing Expert will coordinate end‑to‑end pricing for global and country RFQs, ensuring competitive and timely bid submissions. Working closely with the Ocean Freight Tender Manager and country commercial teams, the role drives pricing strategy execution, data validation, and competitiveness analysis to improve tender hit rates.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate the full RFQ pricing process across all trade lanes and countries, delivering submissions on schedule.
• Convert Customer Pricing Templates into the internal Global Pricing Template and apply pricing instructions.
• Validate pricing data for completeness, compliance with terms & conditions, and alignment with customer requirements.
• Conduct technical and quality sanity checks to ensure accurate data transfer.
• Prepare gap‑to‑target and competitiveness analyses to support pricing refinements and walk‑away decisions.
• Load awarded rate cards for handover to the rate‑card loading team in a ready‑to‑upload format.
• Process quotations for additional lanes, surcharge updates, and transit‑time changes, maintaining up‑to‑date customer rate cards.
• Identify and implement process enhancements to strengthen automation, governance, and data integrity.

Required profile

• Strong analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Experience coordinating complex RFQ processes in ocean freight or logistics.
• Ability to work with multiple internal stakeholders and adhere to tight deadlines.
• Proactive approach to process improvement and data quality.

Required skills

• MTS – internal rate database tool
• ERP/RMS/CW1 systems for rate‑card loading