Pricing Specialist
Full-time
Birmingham Business Park
Upto £35,000 DOE
Our client an international freight forwarder is now seeking a Pricing Specialist to join their team.
Key Responsibilities:
* Maintain and update pricing structures of all customers, carrier rates and data information including up-loads
* Manage pricing audit and expiring reporting
* Provide analytics support by way of data entry and review to contribute towards the ongoing processes
* Support the transition from one system to another
* Set up to improve profit margins through more strategic pricing
* Provide P&L cost change information within established deadlines
* Complex data manipulation in spreadsheets, for tender pricing and price file maintenance
* Coordinate with Procurement Team regarding pricing changes, policies and procedures
* Extract, transform and compile a variety data (e.g. financial data/gain shares, GRI, shipping volumes) for use in various analytical and reporting
* Assist with the coordination of all aspects of the tender process ensuring tender submission is in line with agreed strategy and margin expectation
* Monitor profit margins in daily transaction billings
* Process mass loads of price data, consider, manage data from multiple sources to support market review
* Monitor carrier websites and notifications
* Perform price contract documentation audits and communicate corrective actions
* Provide appropriate and timely information to other departments
* Investigate pricing discrepancies and obtain rectification in a timely manner to prevent further issues
* Improve processes, files and documents to increase efficiencies within the role
General Skills
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills
* Excellent understanding of intermediate Excel including but exclusive to calculation formulas and pivot tables
* Excellent planning and attention to detail
* Excellent communication