Freight Sales Support / Pricing Manager
ReThink Recruitment
UAE
Ref: KP380-246 		ReThink Recruitment

The Role


The Role

Freight Sales Support / Pricing Manager - Must have Freight Forwarding experience

Dubai based 3PL company is urgently looking for a Sales Support / Pricing Manager 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.

Key responsibilities include:

1. 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
2. Undertake regular meetings with our suppliers to ensure that local relationships are maintained and developed to drive stronger price returns
3. Must be able to undertake staff training indicatives through identifying staff weaknesses and services weaknesses to
improve personal attributes, whilst lifting the company’s performance.
4. To manage and review the performance of each staff member on a monthly basis and present to management a performance report which includes full identification of workload by employee, number of bookings managed, number of quotations closed.
5. Must be able to provide guidance to the staff on their results through the Log Book in order for them to see weaknesses, strengths and ways on improving efficiency of their working day.
6. Must represent the Pricing Department in Management meetings to effectively communicate areas of service level
performances that need attention and design and develop solutions that will increase company productivity
7. Work with the Customer Service Manager to ensure that quotations are flowing smoothly and that both sides of the
business have the correct back ups in place for smooth transactions and billing follow up.
8. 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
9. Regularly gain pricing options against the company's product listing including air, sea and road freight price points, whilst always
looking at developing new consolidated products with the Product Managers.
10. Maintain a KPI of 24 hour maximum turnaround in offering finished quotations to both local staff and the Global Network
when requested.

Requirements


Requirements

Successful candidates will meet ALL of the criteria below:

1. Based in the UAE
2. Extensive Freight Forwarding experience
3. Strong pricing experience

Please DO NOT apply if you do not meet the minimum criteria above

About the Company


About the Company

ReThink Recruitment is a full service business and technology recruitment consultancy that does things differently. We service resourcing needs across all industry sectors and for any size of company, from single permanent placements for SMEs to large contractor outsourcing projects for global corporations.

Whether you work in the commercial or public sector, our recruitment experts will give you honest advice and deliver results on time and on budget. We're not like other recruitment agencies and we’re confident that you will prefer our way.

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