Global Sea Logistics Trade Specialist, Transpacific Eastbound

It’s more than a job

With a sales career at Kuehne+Nagel, you’ll drive long-term business success by mastering sales strategies, nurturing customer relationships and identifying new opportunities. But you will also bring relief and peace of mind to pet owners around the world. Because when you do your job, your colleagues around the world are able to build reliable veterinary supply chains that ensure pets get the care they need. At Kuehne+Nagel, our work is about more than we imagine.

How you create impact

In this high impact role, you will work across key pricing and sales teams to drive growth while negotiating the best possible solutions from the world’s largest ocean carriers. This is a global role that touches on all aspects of the business. You will represent Kuehne + Nagel in front customers and carriers and you will be responsible for making decisions at the core of our sea logistics pricing strategy.

• Manage pricing and solutions through complex RFQs and implement pricing decisions
• Identify gaps in information and problem solve throughout the RFQ process.
• Collaborate across local, national and global teams to identify market trends and support national pricing and sales teams in strategy execution
• Negotiate rates, terms and allocations directly with ocean carriers
• Monitor allocations and manage yield performance throughout the contract cycles
• Collect Demand forecasts from Sales/Operations to plan and monitor customer performance and forecast adherence.
• Pricing for global tenders and supporting regional tenders, taking part in commercial decision making for no/no-go strategy.
• Maintain performance reports for ocean carriers, customers, contracts, and area teams
• Build data visualization dashboards for supply chain decision-making, designing tools to improve reporting efficiency

What we would like you to bring

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, business administration, supply chain management or related field
• 1-3 years of relevant experience
• Exceptional Excel and data management skills
• Experience with data analytics tools, such as Business Objects, Tableau is a plus

What’s in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target salary range for this position is between $70,000 and $80,000. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data.

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life – from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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