Description
As an Air Pricing Associate, you will be a foundational member of the team, learning all aspects of the trade, mastering Flexport's advanced technology systems, and working on the front-lines to ensure Client Solutions Teams - and by extension, Flexport customers - have the right solutions and the right prices so that supply chains run smoothly.
Your responsibilities include developing end-to-end pricing solutions for Flexport customers, executing the end-to-end creation and delivery of pricing solutions, procuring rates for customer requests, fulfilling dynamic pricing requests, and acting as the first point of contact for all Air pricing issues, requests, or questions.
You will also drive and support initiatives to promote growth and profitability for the region, ensuring high integrity and accuracy of all rates stored in internal database, leveraging internal tools and processes to mitigate potential revenue leakage, identifying opportunities to improve pricing strategies and increase profitability, and proactively following-up on lost pricing requests and new opportunities.
Additionally, you will identify areas for process improvements and contribute to future automation designs, master all Flexport internal tools and databases for maintaining buy and sell rates, take a critical approach to company and customer SOPs and identify ways to improve them, and embody a 'can-do' attitude at all times.
Requirements include a minimum BA/BS and 2-3 years of related work experience, knowledge of operations, procurement and technology within the industry, experience with regards to imports and/or exports from a sales, operational or procurement perspective, experience building and maintaining relationships and partnerships with vendors, analytical skills and metric / data based approach to solving problems, strong analytical background and knowledge of analytical tools (Excel, etc), strategic vision and ground floor execution, excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.