Location: Atlanta,GA, USA
Are you thinking about advancing your career with one of the most successful logistics organizations worldwide? Here at Kuehne+Nagel, our Atlanta branch is looking for a Area Pricing and Yield Manager to join our team.
Your Role
Reporting to the National Pricing and Yield Manager supporting the Sea Logistics Southeast Area, you will oversee and develop the area pricing department. Your role involves implementing pricing strategies, focus on driving volume growth with optimized yields, allocation management and enhancing the customer and employee experiences. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, analyze market data, and contribute to pricing excellence within the sea logistics business unit.
Your Responsibilities
* You will oversee our Gross Profit, yield and allocation management in your area
* Identify our low-yield accounts, sell value-added services, and manage peak and slack season strategies to optimize yield
* Manage local/regional RFQs and local spot pricing requests
* Develop pricing strategies at trade-lane, client, and area levels
* Collaborate with our Trade Managers to ensure optimization of carrier allocation in accordance with our area demand
* Align on Developing and executing pricing strategies for new and existing customers to optimize profitability
* Participate in client meetings to assist area sales and assist SME RFQ preparation
* Conduct regular pipeline reviews and trainings with area sales as our sea logistics SME expert, guiding strategic development
Your Skills and Experiences
* Bachelor's degree in the fields of Business/Marketing/Finance/Sales/Management or comparable work experience.
* 5+ years of experience in Sea Logistics
* 4+ years pricing experience
* 1+ years of experience in a management position with 2 or more direct reports
* Sales experience beneficial
* Comfortable working fully onsite with business travel as necessary
Good Reasons to Join
There has never been a better time to work in logistics. Bring your skills to an industry that offers stability and international career growth. We offer a great compensation and medical/dental benefits package, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, excellent training programs, and a fun, and interesting global work environment. #LI-KE1