Key Account Pricing Agent

Job description

Ref: req41878

Grade 5
Number of vacancies = 21 FTE (12 x via temp agency, 9 x permanent positions)
Temp. as of September 2017 for a duration of 4 to 6 months

Organization
As a worldwide market leader in express transportation and logistics, DHL provides solutions for the management and transportation of goods.
We have a global network and local expertise at our disposal.

Department
Key Account Pricing

Are you a talented, ambitious, driven starter in Pricing & does it excite you to work in a Global/ international environment? DHL offers you a challenging start within the largest express and logistics company in the world!

Do you like to show and challenge your
- Analytical strengths
- Precision and discipline in working with large number of data
- Master your excellent professional Excel skills
- Affinity with sales and marketing
- Responsibilities for key customer accounts
- Team spiritOverall role purpose

The Key Account Pricing team acts up on countries requests.
Taking care of our key customers and display a uniform approach in coordinating and putting in place the pricing strategy into the proposals, and later in the implementations.
Gain a thorough understanding of our key customers.

Role focus and main responsibilities
- Create pricing identifiers in our systems within the scope of special rates
- Interpret overall countries requests for price levels and translate these into special rates
- Conduct customer pricing analysis (revenue and margin simulations)
- Collection and review of existing or potential customer rate cards
- Apply a uniform approach taking into account customer agreements and company guidelines
- As a team member sharing and initiating the responsibility for continuous improvement in terms of the teams professional development

Our characteristics
- We are a customer focused company working with a Global customer base
- Cooperating with our sales forces in countries worldwide
- Multi-cultural team
- Mid and long term career opportunities (global scope) Selection qualifications
- Good analytical skills
- Attention to details
- Effective interpersonal and communication skills
- Business English skill level (and desirable other language)
- Ability to work independently
- Results oriented
- Ability to manage deadlines
- Strong PC skills, particularly the capability of managing large volumes of data in MS-Excel

Experience
1 year of working experience in related pricing functions or comparable functions with similar responsibilities. Desirable DHL Express experience in an analytical, financial, or Customer Accounting function. Preferred candidates would have previous experience in Pricing Implementation (GCI), Billing (CMF), Products/Marketing and/or EKAD roles.

Educational Qualifications
Bachelor degree with good analytical background (e.g. Business Administration, Finance, Economics)