Sea Logistics Pricing Supervisor

It's more than a job

When you work in Freight Logistics and Operations at Kuehne+Nagel, you play a key role in optimising processes and ensuring that inventory and shipments move efficiently. But that is not all. Your work also helps ensure that vital medicines reach patients on time and supports other essential deliveries, from wind turbines to semiconductors. At Kuehne+Nagel, our contribution counts in more ways than we imagine.

How you create impact

The Sea Logistics Pricing Supervisor plays a critical role in driving strategic pricing initiatives for the USA commodity export business while overseeing a team. This position blends strategic pricing with hands-on operational execution in a fast-paced, high-volume environment. Reporting to the Pricing Manager, the supervisor works cross-functionally with Sales Teams, Account Owners, Business Operations, and Sea Freight Trade Managers to deliver competitive rate solutions and ensure timely order dispatch. The role involves direct customer engagement on bids and spot pricing, carrier negotiations, and escalation management, with a focus on key commodity segments such as Forest Products, Recycled Materials, and Dried Fruits and Nuts.

• Partner with Commodity Trade Managers to ensure contracted buying rates align with current market conditions.
• Liaise with major ocean carriers to secure competitive spot rates based on sales and customer requests.
• Support the Sales Team in customer pricing discussions, ensuring timely and competitive rate proposals that meet profitability targets.
• Assist in allocation management by executing steering instructions and providing timely solutions for space request escalations.
• Maintain a strong understanding of market trends, carrier dynamics, and trade lane performance to inform pricing decisions.

What we would like you to bring

What's in it for you

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. Base wage is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. #LI-TD1

Who we are

Logistics shapes everyday life - from the goods we consume to the healthcare we rely on. At Kuehne+Nagel, your work goes beyond logistics; it enables both ordinary and special moments in the lives of people around the world.

As a global leader with a strong heritage and a vision to move the world forward, we offer a safe, stable environment where your career can make a real difference. Whether we help deliver life-saving medicines, develop sustainable transportation solutions or support our local communities, your career will contribute to more than you can imagine.

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