Landside Transport Growth Enablement Manager

Landside Transport Growth Enablement Manager

The LST Pricing Analyst has the responsibility for the analytical requirements to deliver the Area direction setting and market intelligence around trucking products and their relevant pricing in SAA countries.
She/he operates at an executional level with a near-term objective of analyzing market data to deliver the Area's growth strategy.
She/he monitors market trends and assists on data analysis, planning and administrative tasks to support strategic planning through the usage of insight into intelligence gathering in close cooperation with SAA extended leadership team.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Collect and analyze market intelligence.
2. Maintenance of Customer specific accounts RFQ-related bid and profit statements.
3. Design and construct professional slides deck to support ongoing bids and product development.
4. Follow up and close monthly action plan with Operations, sales, Finance and Business Controller for key customer accounts.
5. Data extraction and analysis as and when required.
6. Follow up with various functions such as Finance, Business Control (BCO), Sales Support, Operations, and others on data accuracy.
7. Be the single point of contact and responsible party to track and follow up with the various functions on improving data quality and visibility.
8. From the data available, highlight trends, potential upsides, and downsides for the various Products and support them in formulating business improvement plans or new product development.
9. Provide input for Inland tender preparation.
10. Responsible for the maintenance of Product Dashboards.
11. SFDC (Salesforce.com) opportunities hygiene.
12. Deliver weekly report and ensure hygiene data by checking with relevant stakeholders.
13. Provide key transactional performance metrics as and when required.

The ideal candidate will have:

1. Bachelor's degree in Logistics Science, Accounting, or other related fields.
2. Minimum work experience of 5 years in Logistics.
3. Experience working in Inland Transportation / LCL is a plus.
4. Experience of working in a fast-paced/growth environment.
5. Be highly proficient in the use of financial/operational systems and tools ideally with hands-on SAP user experience.
6. Advanced technical skills in Microsoft Office PowerPoint & Excel.
7. Compliance and regulatory knowledge.
8. High level of integrity and ethical conduct.
9. High level of communication, ability to influence without authority, and effectively communicating with different groups & levels of stakeholders.
10. Cross-functional collaboration.
11. Have solid logical, analytical and problem-solving skills.
12. Ownership mindset, have a 'can do' attitude, will drive by example, and be prepared to go the extra mile when needed.
13. Resilient with a propensity to persevere.
14. Challenge status quo and have strong skills in time management.
15. Can identify and call out emerging risks and potential roadblocks to successful early implementation.
16. Open-minded and likes to work in a diverse and international environment.