Pricing Supervisor

About the role

Expeditors, a global logistics company and Fortune 500 employer headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is hiring a Pricing Supervisor. The role manages quotes and RFQs, supports Pricing Analysts, negotiates rates with carriers and monitors margins, and works closely with Sales and Customer Service.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare and manage quotes and RFQs, including complex, strategic, urgent and high-value opportunities, and maintain an active pricing workload.
• Coordinate daily pricing assignments, monitor turnaround times and act to prevent or reduce backlog.
• Support Pricing Analysts with rate sourcing, provider selection, routing options, margin decisions and challenging requests.
• Review quotes for accuracy, completeness, competitiveness, profitability and compliance with company standards.
• Obtain and compare rates from carriers, co-loaders, transportation providers and network offices, and negotiate rates and commercial conditions within delegated authority.
• Analyse quote results, customer feedback, wins, losses and rejection reasons to identify commercial opportunities.
• Stay up to date on provider options, market rates, transit times, surcharges, GRI, PSS and other relevant changes.
• Partner with Sales and Customer Service to understand customer needs and develop competitive, executable solutions.
• Coach Pricing Analysts, escalate significant margin exceptions, service risks, capacity constraints and commercial commitments, and protect confidential information.

Required profile

• Relevant pricing, freight forwarding, logistics, transportation or industry experience.
• Practical experience preparing quotes and RFQs.
• Understanding of buying and selling rates, margins, profitability, surcharges and commercial risk.
• Experience negotiating with carriers or service providers.
• Ability to supervise others while staying actively involved in daily operations.

Required skills

• Proficiency with approved quoting tools, databases, Microsoft Excel and related business systems.
• Strong commercial judgement, analytical thinking and problem-solving.
• Communication, organisation, coaching and relationship-management skills.

What we offer

• Paid vacation, holiday and sick time.
• Medical and life insurance.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Training and personnel development program.
• Growth opportunities within the company and an employee referral bonus.