Pricing Supervisor

Key Responsibilities
Prepare and manage quotes and RFQs, including complex, strategic, urgent, and high-value opportunities.
Maintain an active pricing workload and provide hands-on support whenever team capacity, request complexity, or business priorities require it.
Coordinate daily pricing assignments, monitor turnaround times, and take action to prevent or reduce backlog.
Support Pricing Analysts with rate sourcing, provider selection, routing options, margin decisions, and challenging pricing requests.
Review quotes for accuracy, completeness, competitiveness, profitability, and compliance with company standards.
Obtain and compare rates from carriers, co-loaders, transportation providers, network offices, and other service providers.
Negotiate rates and commercial conditions with carriers and service providers within delegated authority.
Monitor margins and help ensure pricing decisions balance business conversion with appropriate profitability.
Analyse quote results, customer feedback, wins, losses, rejection reasons, and market conditions to identify commercial opportunities.
Maintain current knowledge of provider options, market rates, transit times, surcharges, GRI, PSS, and other relevant changes.
Partner with Sales and Customer Service to understand customer requirements and develop competitive, executable solutions.
Coach Pricing Analysts through practical support, quote reviews, and the sharing of commercial and market knowledge.
Escalate significant margin exceptions, service risks, capacity constraints, and commercial commitments requiring management approval.
Protect confidential customer, provider, contract, and pricing information.
These responsibilities preserve the original role’s focus on pricing execution, provider relationships, margin discussions, quote analysis, market intelligence, and timely responses.
Relevant pricing, freight forwarding, logistics, transportation, or industry experience.
Practical experience preparing quotes and RFQs.
Understanding of buying rates, selling rates, margins, profitability, surcharges, and commercial risk.
Experience negotiating with carriers or service providers.
Strong commercial judgement, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to supervise others while remaining actively involved in daily operational work.
Strong communication, organisation, coaching, and relationship-management skills.
Knowledge of relevant markets, carriers, routings, and service options.
Proficiency with approved quoting tools, databases, Microsoft Excel, and related business systems.

Skills
Excel, Sourcing

Employment type
Full-time

Work arrangement
No