Road Logistics Pricing Specialist

We are looking for a Road Logistics Pricing Specialist with a high level analytical, communicative and organizational skills for our National Office in Basaksehir, Istanbul,

Your Role

This position is accountable for the sourcing and pricing of the FTL/LTL business at national level, for increasing the number of approved hauliers, increasing the number of round-trip services and reducing the empty millage, and supporting the sales activities in farming existing business and hunting new business.

Your Responsibilities

• Monthly controlling and monitoring of actuals versus targets, and initiates corrective actions in case of deviations and reporting weekly and monthly procurement results (e.g. hit ratio of quotations)
• Acquires or supports the acquisition of new FTL/LTL/GRP business and supports the account management and promotes carrier relations and develops the existing carrier base.
• Continuously entry and update of new/existing carrier data in SMT (Supplier Management Tool).
  Supports the FTL/LTL/GRP business development process (tender analysis, solution design, costing, pricing and service offering)
• Provide market and product related information regularly to the internal stakeholders and monitor and enforce Country regulatory compliance.
• Optimizing Round Trip trucks, increase RT trucks and decrease the number of OW trucks, in order to make procurement saving.
• Execution of FTL/LTL carrier procurement strategy, including managing local carrier´s contacts and rates negotiations, seeking to improve pricing competitiveness and expand carrier pool, in alignment with national hauliers procurement guidelines.
• Ensures efficient transfer of agreed conditions and details about transport procurement to the operation team.
• Prepares contracts for the regular gained businesses and updates of the prices, validity and specific conditions of existing contracts in alignment with national hauliers procurement guidelines.
• Takes role and be a part of the new technological and corporate projects which are in line with carriers (e.g., e-trucknow etc.)
• Carry out its works in accordance with policies, objectives and Management System documents of Quality, Occupational Health and Safety, Environment and Information Security.

Your Skills and Experiences

• Minimum bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 1-3 years of experience in Road Logistics Pricing/procurement/operation experience for inbound/outbound FTL shipments.
• Proficient in MS Office Applications and PC skills
• Excellent analytical, communication skills, attention to detail
• Results orientated and fast acting / decision maker.
• Very good spoken and written Turkish and English is a must.

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Good Reasons to Join

At Kuehne+Nagel you are always part of a team, but still have control over how you arrange your own work and your own way of achieving success. Present your customers with the products and services of a company that is the global market leader in logistics in many sectors. In return we offer a wide range of continuing professional development opportunities.