About this role
Role & Responsibilities:
- Complete transactional air and ocean pricing requests and spot quotes
- Review and understand client shipment requirements when quoting
- Analyze and recommend ideal shipping methods, routing, or carriers to meet necessary requirements, specifications, and costs
- Responsible for building relationships with internal sales and operations teams to gain understanding of market trends and seasonality to provide accurate quotes
- Follow up with sales and record rate requests results
- Work on special projects and reports as needed
- For additional training and if time permits, team member can work on RFQs. They will act as the single point of contact and communication, to the sales team, monitoring the flow of client tender submissions in and out of the Tender Management process. They will provide daily management of the bid process and create internal Excel templates. This training will provide a career path for team members.
- Other duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree from a reputable university.
- Minimum 2+ years of experience in pricing or operations within the freight forwarding industry.
- Knowledge of how freight moves, standard industry charges, and incoterms.
- Excellent organization, analytical, written, and oral communications skills.
- Strong time management skills and the ability to multi-task and prioritize in a fast-paced environment, while exercising sound judgement.
- Candidates must be self-motivated, customer service oriented, and eager to ensure the success of the team.
- Ability to function independently, with minimal supervision, and thrive within a fast-paced and sometimes ambiguous environment.
- High attention to detail.
- Effective time management skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills - analyze large amount of data using formulas.
- Manage and prioritize workload, ability to manage a mix of issues and requests.
- Strong reasoning skills and ability to offer both written and verbal advice.
- Ability to work flexible hours to accommodate colleagues in other time zones and to meet client deadlines.
Benefit Information:
MEC provides a comprehensive and thoughtfully designed benefits package for full-time employees. These offerings reflect our commitment to supporting and valuing our team.
- Healthcare Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Retirement Plan: 401(k) with 6% company match after 30 days.
- Life & Disability Insurance: Company-paid life insurance plus short/long-term disability coverage.
- Time Off: 9 holidays, vacation, sick, and float hours.
Location
New York, New York (Hybrid)
Department
*Sales and Account Management
Employment Type
Full-Time
Minimum Experience
Mid-level
Compensation
$20 -$25 hourly (DOE)
Other facts
About Morrison Express
Established in 1972, Morrison Express is a privately-held company operated by a professional management team.
We have successfully transformed from a Taiwan-based freight forwarder focusing on Taiwan-US route to a global player with over 2000 employees operating over 90 owned offices in America, Asia, Europe, and South America, plus more than 100 agents in 5 continents, and are still expanding rapidly in terms of revenue and corporate size.
We serve an expanding list of multinational businesses, managing their air, ocean and ground freight forwarding and logistics needs on a global basis. Via our regional logistics centers — strategically located in key gateway cities across different regions — we provide highly customized, cost-effective freight consolidation, warehousing, distribution and delivery solutions that caters to our client’s most challenging business needs.
We continue to invest and operate one of industry’s most sophisticated information systems, designed for today’s increasingly complex supply chain logistics. Our flexible IT solutions provide clients with the capability to integrate our shipping, warehousing and door-to-door delivery solutions with their own information systems, enabling the clients to have end-to-end supply chain visibility.
Our success as a global service provider is and will continue to be driven by our team of highly dedicated and hard working individuals. Their commitment and passion to their jobs are the backbone on which we have built our organization, and this will continue to be a source of passion with which we serve our clients.
What you'll do
- The role involves completing transactional air and ocean pricing requests, analyzing client shipment requirements, and recommending optimal shipping methods, routing, or carriers based on requirements and costs. Additionally, the position requires building internal relationships to understand market dynamics for accurate quoting and managing the flow of client tender submissions.
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