Air Logistics Pricing Specialist at Kuehne + Nagel

Your Role

Pricing Specialist focus is on offering competitive pricing packages to both internal and external customers, KN Kenya Excellence Manager while liaising with Nbo FA. Securing new business opportunities in tandem with the set targets. Maintaining an excellent rapport with the airlines is key in an effort to obtain the best possible deals in the market to make us competitive and subsequent winners.

Your Responsibilities

• Proactively provide value-adding solutions through assessment of customer requests and requirements versus best practice.
• Set up and maintain net rates database for major and reliable carriers every quarter.
• Ensuring QT Air local requirements/guidelines and rates are correct and up to date.
• Ensure timely and detailed hand over to (AI operations team) of business secured.
• Obtain best practice information from KN network and share with Nbo FA
• Acknowledge all price and rate requests on time
• Validate adherence to standards and pricing instructions.
• Define and set up internal local rates (local charges) in the system and perform regular sanity checks in case of rate changes etc.

Your Skills and Experiences

• Having commercial mindset and working knowledge of incoterms and payment terms
• Strong project management skills and ability to cope with multiple bids simultaneously
• Very strong communication and negotiation skills with a positive attitude
• Commercial acumen/experience/capabilities
• Ability to work on own initiative and as part of a team and to be able to work under pressure
• Customer focused with a proactive attitude
• Strong problem-solving mentality
• Think outside the box mentality