Pricing Specialist - Air Freight

About the role

Maersk, a global leader in integrated logistics, is looking for a Pricing Specialist for air freight. The role covers pricing and commercial support, capacity planning and procurement, and performance monitoring, working closely with sales and customer experience teams.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare timely and accurate airfreight quotations, spot rates, tender responses and pricing proposals, and maintain rate sheets, buy/sell rates and pricing records.
• Analyse carrier rates, surcharges, routings, transit times, service levels and market conditions to recommend competitive solutions.
• Validate cost components and commercial assumptions, identify margin risks and escalate exceptions for approval.
• Support sales and customer experience teams, and provide weekly market tariffs, market analysis reports and other reporting.
• Forecast airfreight demand by lane, customer, product and period, and coordinate with airlines and gateways to secure capacity at competitive cost.
• Monitor capacity utilization and booking patterns, optimize routing, carrier mix and consolidation, and keep carrier partners informed.
• Track quotation turnaround, win/loss feedback, margin and capacity performance, and improve pricing workflows and forecasting accuracy.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in logistics, supply chain, business, economics or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• About 2-5 years of experience in airfreight pricing, procurement, capacity planning, operations, freight forwarding or logistics coordination.
• Experience preparing quotations or tenders and working with airline rates, routings, surcharges and capacity is preferred.
• Strong numerical, analytical and commercial decision-making skills, with attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret demand patterns, capacity constraints, cost drivers and margin implications.
• Strong communication, negotiation, stakeholder management and problem-solving skills.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and confidence with pricing models, reports and structured datasets.
• Experience with freight forwarding or transportation management systems; CargoWise or a similar platform is an advantage.