(Assistant) Tender Manager (f/m/x) Ocean Freight

The main purpose of your role:

This job posting offers an excellent career opportunity for recent graduates and professionals with some relevant experience within the Freight Forwarding industry, who are enthusiastic about starting their career within an experienced Procurement and Pricing team.

• You assist the regional Tender Management team and act as bid manager to support the TM process by balancing out workload in the team;
• You create and support competitive, customer-centric proposals enabling profitable business wins;
• You translate corporate and regional directions into local actions;
• You support to grow the tendered business in volume/GP;
• You will prepare competitive, high quality proposals in response to forwarding RFQs received from global/regional and country priority accounts closely cooperating with other Tender Management Teams, Bid Owner, Product and other support functions;
• Furthermore, you are responsible for maintaining team reporting, business administration and database management.

These are your key tasks:

• Support the entire tender process which includes analysing and validating information from internal stakeholders, developing response formats and pricing matrices, responding to queries, and submitting RFQs to customers or bid owners.
• Provide quality proposals to bid owners and Tender Management Teams for validation and submission to customers.
• Analyse tenders and recommend optimum business solutions.
• Support and maintain pricing databases for transportation rates and logistics/distribution rates.
• Maintain tender data profiling and records, including monthly bid logs and completed tenders.
• Support procurement team in gathering market intelligence on competitors' pricing, capabilities, facilities, client base, products, and services.
• Ensure post-bid analysis is performed for all bids, successful or unsuccessful, and shared with stakeholders for bid tracking.
• Ensure follow-up and closure of all opportunities, providing accurate estimations of win/retained/lost bids, volumes, and trade lane information.
• Maintain reporting databases and generate ad-hoc reports as required and adhere to good business practices.
• Perform additional duties and/or ad hoc projects as assigned by the European Product & Procurement Director.
• Interface with other functional groups and customers in creating and delivering customer-driven services and solutions.

• General knowledge of ocean forwarding business (customers, competitors, suppliers and overall environment)
• Minimum 2 years of work experience in freight forwarding (Air/Ocean Cargo)
• Analytical thinking with strong passion for accuracy and detail-orientation is a must
• Demonstrate strong communication and negotiation capabilities

• Strong organizational skills (prioritize, plan, assign, and control)
• Business Administration / Commercial Background.
• Language skills required; Fluent in English mandatory, other languages advantageous
• IT experience regarding ocean freight operations
• Expertise in MS Office, specifically Excel. (Access is an advantage);
• Knowledge of any Transportation Management System (TMS) such as CargoWise or SAP or CRM is a plus.

• A permanent position within a leading logistics company
• Stimulating tasks within a diverse and international environment
• Great team members who will help you to get onboarded quickly
• Good Work-Life-Balance, possibility to Work From Home (hybrid model)
• Attractive salary
• Various additional benefits