What are the responsibilities and job description for the Tenders Specialist - Air Freight position at BDP International?
About PSA BDP:
PSA BDP, a member of the PSA Group, is a leading provider of globally integrated and port-centric supply chain, transportation, and logistics solutions. The company is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, and employs more than 5,500 people worldwide. We are a team that celebrates our unique diversity and close-knit community atmosphere.
Our core values begin at the very top and span the broad reach of our global community. We offer dynamic careers for those individuals looking to be a part of something bigger and provide unequivocal opportunities for growth within the organization.
PSA BDP serves over 5,000 customers, including some of the world's leading multinational companies within the chemical, retail & consumer, life sciences & pharmaceuticals, and electric vehicle & industrial verticals.
Scope
The role of the Tender Specialist is that of a project manager in the context of crafting pricing-based air freight bid offers. The Tender Specialist is responsible for dissecting the business requirements and bidding instructions managing internal stakeholders and working with opportunity owners. The Tender Specialist is concerned with quality, compliance, market competitiveness and risk/yield analysis. The overall quality of the proposals submitted, their completeness and timeliness are their priority. Tender Specialists participate in performance management, reporting, team development, training and facilitation of access to tools.
Responsibilities
- Manage the planning, organizing, directing and delivery of large-scale global logistic RFQs annually
- Creating in-depth analyses of bids (where we stand versus 1st round etc).
- Lead Internal bidding preparation, scheduling internal communication milestones per bid (kick-off, review calls, RG, etc.)
- Define and communicate pricing instructions & rate architecture
- Ensure quality, time management and project completion
- Sanity checks and management of discrepancies
- Submission & Uploads
- Version Management & Additional pricing rounds
- Align company interests with customer requirements through scrupulous analysis of pricing data provided by global pricing colleagues and through coordination of input from Finance, Legal, Human Resources, and Sales/Marketing; present finalized project to upper management (including “C” level management) for final approval
- Measure performance, maintain pipeline reports, update statuses of submitted RFQs
- Train counterparts so as to enable them to use TM-run tools and resources
- Support other members of the team and take the initiative to suggest process improvements