About this role
Company Description
As a Fortune 500 company, Expeditors employs more than 19,500 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 300 locations across six continents.
Expeditors meets the increasingly sophisticated demands of international trade through customized solutions and fully integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, customs brokerage, vendor consolidation, cargo insurance, time-definite transportation, order management, warehousing, distribution, and customized logistics solutions.
Expeditors is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA.
Job Description
The Ocean Pricing Analyst is responsible for preparing, organizing, and tracking ocean freight quotations and BIDs, ensuring accuracy, efficiency, and alignment with company standards.
Main Responsibilities:
- Handle quotation and BID requests within established deadlines.
- Prepare proposals using Expeditors’ official templates.
- Include terms and conditions in all quotations.
- Log quotations in the internal network and follow BID procedures for local customers.
- Request rates from origin/destination offices and follow up on responses, escalating when necessary.
- Verify carrier and co-loader rates, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Develop strong relationships with carriers, co-loaders, and customers, including active follow-up.
- Coordinate the delivery of quotations to customers and the global network.
- Support the sales team with new customer or new lane opportunities.
- Provide feedback to suppliers regarding awarded, archived, or rejected quotations, including reasons.
- Record statistics on approved and rejected quotations.
- Archive e-docs and relevant documents.
- Check pick-up and delivery charges in Transcon when needed.
- Inform the import/export operational teams about agreed rates and negotiations.
- Suggest rate adjustments based on market conditions and stay updated on routes, partners, and market trends.
- Support customer service and billing teams regarding negotiated rates.
- Follow company policies and procedures (OPS).
- Maintain strong relationships with sales, LAM, brokerage, transcon, the ocean operations team, and all other areas involved.
- Complete and comply with 52 hours of annual corporate training
- Attend required training classes and complete courses according to the Development Map
Qualifications
- Fluent English
- Strong computer proficiency
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills
- Robust operational capabilities
- Excellent interpersonal skills, fostering effective collaboration among team members and clients
- Highly effective interpersonal communication abilities
Additional Information
Expeditors Offers:
- Meal Allowance (VA)
- Meal Voucher (VR)
- Transportation Voucher (VT)
- Health and Dental Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Other facts
About Expeditors
Expeditors is a Fortune 500 service-based logistics company with headquarters in Seattle, Washington, USA. At Expeditors, we generate highly optimized and customized supply chain solutions for our clients with unified technology systems integrated through a global network of over 350 locations in 100+ countries on six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services.
We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers' supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors' comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility.
To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.
At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."
What you'll do
- The Ocean Pricing Analyst is responsible for preparing and tracking ocean freight quotations and BIDs. This includes handling requests, preparing proposals, verifying rates, and maintaining relationships with carriers and customers.
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