Ocean Freight Tender Manager

DHL Global Forwarding Taşımacılık A.Ş.

Job Purpose:

OFR Tender Manager supports the execution of tender process for ocean freight product by working together with all stakeholders in preparing, finalizing and delivering a timely and winning tender response.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage incoming RFQ’s and  work together with all stakeholders in preparing, finalizing and delivering a timely and winning tender response.
• Support in creating a Unique Selling Point (USP) or winning proposition next to price and support the narrative in the RFQ answer
• Engage with country teams and regional pricing teams to ensure all bid responses are checked & validated for accuracy, adherence to customer’s requirements
• Evaluate country pricing to bid and benchmark against comparative bid data, so as to optimize customer pricing effectiveness
• Develop and maintain strong contacts with internal stakeholders such as Commercial Owner, Industry Sector Sales (Life Sciences and Healthcare, Chemicals, Automotive, Engineering & Manufacturing, Energy, Technology, Consumer and/or Retail),  Account- and Product-Management
• Keep up to date with products and all relevant market information and developments
• Follow up on submitted bids with Bid Managers to understand  and place on record the bid outcome and lesson learned
• Understand the complexity of customer’s requirements such as air and ocean transportation, sector specific knowledge, IT customer solutions etc.