What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pricing Coordinator - Ocean position at Zencargo?
Department: Pricing and Procurement
Location: Chicago
Join our dynamic and growing team as a Pricing Specialist, where you’ll play a key role in shaping competitive pricing strategies across the Americas (USA, Canada, and South America). In this role, you’ll take ownership of spot quotations, ensuring they are accurate, competitive, and transparent, while collaborating with global teams across Transatlantic and Transpacific trades.
You’ll work closely with carriers, hauliers, and agents to negotiate rates and deliver reliable, cost-effective solutions, partnering with operations, procurement, and sales teams to seamlessly turn opportunities into bookings. From leading tender and bid processes to supporting global pricing initiatives with local market expertise, you’ll have real impact on commercial success.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative, fast-paced environment where you can contribute to process improvements, drive smarter pricing through data and automation, and grow your career within a global logistics network.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage spot quotations outbound from USA, Canada and South America in a timely manner prioritising accuracy, competitiveness and transparency.
- Assist the global pricing team with spot quotations for Transatlantic and TP trades as required.
- Source and negotiate both spot and long term rates with carriers , hauliers and agents to maintain competitiveness and service reliability.
- Collaborate with operations and procurement teams to ensure seamless transition from quotation to booking whilst conducting comparative cost analysis to optimise pricing strategies.
- Manage and lead bid / tender TP proposals from start to finish, reviewing tender requirements and bid formae and working in collaboration with the the global pricing&procurement team and USA sales team.
- Assist the pricing and procurement team with local charges and routing to support global tender submissions ( including haulages)
- Assist in maintenance of all pricing related internal regional tools to support the ongoing business requirements.
- Work on ongoing projects with pricing and procurement teams to develop process improvements and ongoing automation tools.
Support pricing teams with any other pricing/ procurement related tasks as business requires.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Soft Skills- Negotiation: Ability to secure competitive pricing and service commitments from carriers and suppliers using spot tools and other sources.
- Analytical Thinking: Strong ability to assess pricing structures, evaluate market trends, interpret cost data.
- Communication & Collaboration: Effective in engaging with internal teams, suppliers and stakeholders to ensure alignment and transparency.
- Problem-Solving: Proactive approach to addressing challenges, making data-driven decisions and optimising procurement strategies.
- Time Management: Ability to handle multiple pricing requests efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
- Detail-Oriented: Ensures accuracy in pricing submissions and pricing documents.
- Flexibility: Ability to be open to working on different pricing related tasks as the business requires.
- Strong understanding of ocean freight LCL and FCL pricing structures, carrier quote tools, trade lane dynamics, and carrier relationships.
- Understanding of supply chain operations in order to translate the necessary moves into a pricing quote
- Ability to compare ocean carrier pricing to optimise profit
- Experience with contract management and rate filing processes to ensure compliance and accuracy.
- Proficiency in Google Sheets/Excel, including pivot tables, Vlookup and other formulas to speed up the pace of data analysis
- Knowledge of global supply chain economics and how they impact the ocean freight