Position Summary
The International Pricing Analyst is primarily responsible for providing international ocean and air pricing for new international solutions requests and for existing accounts. The Pricing Analyst regularly interacts with Sales, Solutions, Account Management, and the VP of International. This individual serves a critical role in winning new business and maintaining existing accounts.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Duties include but are not limited to the following:
- Respond to new solutions requests:
- Maintain a pre and post RFP tracker
- Other administrative duties as assigned
- Extract representative customer data from the quote request form, Datamyne, and/or invoices
- Recommend pricing structure, routing, and potential carriers
- Construct the formal customer pricing template
- Analyze optimal routing and pricing scenarios by evaluating multiple routings, lane pair, costing
- Recommend resolutions to agents, carriers, and customers
- Analyze and negotiating optimal mark-up and margins for all parties
- Update existing customer sell rates due to fluctuating market conditions
- Work to resolve carrier or agent issues
Specific Department Responsibilities
- Maintain a solid understanding of current industry trends and news through frequent reading of periodicals
- Stay up to date on international ocean and air carriers and pricing structures
Required Skills and Abilities
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to work independently with minimal leadership oversight
- The ability to effectively interact with Sales, Solutions, Account Management, and Executive teams
- Excellent customer service, time management, and prioritization skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills in person and via phone
- Ability to understand, interpret, and explain complex and abstract pricing issues and respond appropriately
- Able to utilize sound, independent judgment and make responsible decisions and recommendations
- Excellent follow-through and detail orientation
- Able to effectively utilize computer programs including Word and Excel and transportation management system
- Ability to work with a variety of people and personality types
- Able to work within a fast-paced team environment
- Work as necessary to meet customer needs
Minimum Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- At least five years of industry experience
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions; it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
- Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to remain in a stationary position for at least 50% of the time. The employee needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. The general level of physical activity would be defined as sedentary. The employee is regularly required to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, telephone, copy machine, and printer. Some movements of the hands, arms, and wrists may involve repetitive motions. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to detect, determine, perceive, identify, recognize, judge, observe, inspect, estimate, and assess various activities and surroundings.
- Cognitive/Mental Requirements: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to comprehend and use basic language, either written or spoken, to communicate simple and complex information, ideas, and information. The employee is also required to use logic to define problems, collect information, establish facts, draw valid conclusions, interpret information, and deal with abstract variables for unique or unfamiliar situations. The employee must use problem-solving skills to formulate and apply appropriate courses of action for routine or familiar situations. The employee may be required to perform numerical operations including basic counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing or more complex quantitative calculations.
- Work Environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is inside a central heat and air-conditioned office building. The noise level in the work environment is minimal.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of an employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
eShipping LLC is an equal opportunity employer.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $45,000.00 - $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
Application Question(s):
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?
- What is your desired annual salary?
- What is your preferred email address for communication?
- How many years have you spent working for an international freight forwarder, or an ocean carrier?
- When can a recruiter call you for a phone screen?
Experience:
- providing ocean and air freight quotes: 1 year (Required)
Work Location: Remote
