Deputy/Assistant Manager Procurement- Sea Cargo

Enquiry Rate Management

- Receiving enquires from shipper/overseas agents / sales acknowledging within 2hrs
- Updating enquiry into the enquiry tracker / logisys
- Rate negotiation with Shipping line/forwarding agent
- Follow-up of quote with shipper/agent
- Responsible for freight negotiations with carriers
- Ensure best price in the business
- Finalizing RFQ S for ocean freight movements
- Ocean Freight rate negotiation with shipping line / Co-loaders for Inbound / outbound FCL as well as LCL shipments.

Pricing
- Act as SPOC for Pricing Nominations on a Pan India basis.
- Ensuring space availability and solving out equipment and space problem with carriers.
- Filing the ocean freight rates with shipping lines for various destinations
- Respond to Global RFQ s / Local rate request.
- Analyzing RFQ s received from customers and responds them with pricing solutions
- Relationship Management
- Maintaining and developing relationships with Carriers
- Develop relationship with carriers / Rate Negotiations
- Attending customer s queries locally all branches as well as overseas agents and sending competitive quotes.
- Develop maintain quoted v/s converted business database to evaluate the success of our pricing levels /strategy.
- Co-coordinating with Marketing Executive Branch offices (Overseas Agents in India s offices) regarding the rates, Meet turn-around-time for every pricing request.
- Negotiate for freight with Liner s/Forwarders (FCL/LCL both) and share the same with the marketing persons on weekly basis. Co-ordination with carriers/feeder operators/agents for rates.
- Develop maintain pricing database for Air Ocean FCL/LCL both on an ongoing basis.
- Filing freights in lines and updating freights in system for Air sea both.
- Support to the seniors with analysis of performance data to facilitate management decision making.
- Generate Market Information and disseminate the same through relevant channels to sales.
- Daily reporting to HOD.