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.