Container Procurement & Pricing Analyst

Job Summary:

We are a fast-growing Container Trading company specializing in the global buying and reselling of shipping containers. We are seeking a sharp, data-driven, and highly organized Container Procurement & Pricing Analyst. In this role, your primary mission is to maximize our profit margins by hunting down the cheapest container inventories in the market. You will find and vet new suppliers, aggressively negotiate unit prices, and maintain a highly organized, real-time inventory database. You will serve as the backbone of our sales team, enabling our sales agents to instantly locate and pitch the lowest-priced containers available to our clients.

Core Responsibilities:

Vendor Sourcing & Procurement: Actively search for, vet, and onboard new container suppliers, leasing companies, shipping lines, and depots to expand our global supply network.

Price Negotiation:

Negotiate wholesale asset prices, bulk purchase discounts, waiver of depot gate-out/handling fees, and favorable storage terms with suppliers.

Data Encoding & Database Management: Collect raw inventory lists from multiple vendors (often sent via messy spreadsheets, PDFs, or chat messages). Clean, format, and input this data into our centralized shared drive.

Inventory Accuracy: Maintain a real-time, highly organized, and easily searchable inventory list, ensuring prices, container conditions, and unit locations are updated daily.

Sales Enablement: Act as the direct support system for sales agents. Filter data instantly to help agents identify the absolute cheapest units in specific locations while they are closing deals with clients.

Market Analysis: Keep a pulse on global container pricing trends, steel costs, and regional supply surpluses/shortages to advise management on optimal buying times.

Required Qualifications & Skills

Experience: 1–3 years of experience in procurement, supply chain, asset trading, or a data-heavy analyst role. (Experience in shipping container trading, freight forwarding, or logistics is a major plus but not mandatory).

Advanced Excel/Data Skills: Must be highly proficient in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets (VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, Pivot Tables, sorting, filtering, and data cleaning). You must be able to turn messy data into a clean, searchable database quickly.

Strong Negotiation Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a proven ability to bargain, challenge vendor prices, and build strong professional relationships.

High Attention to Detail: Exceptional precision when managing numbers, serial prefixes, release numbers, and technical container gradings.

Speed & Problem-Solving: Ability to work efficiently under pressure to provide immediate pricing support to sales agents in fast-moving deal environments.

Preferred Technical Competencies

Familiarity with container grading standards: One-Way/New, IICL, Cargo Worthy (CW), and Wind & Watertight (WWT).

Experience using cloud storage collaboration tools (Google Drive, OneDrive, SharePoint, or Airtable).

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Cost Savings: Percentage reduction in average unit cost achieved through negotiation.

Supplier Acquisition: Number of new, reliable vendors onboarded per quarter.

Database Accuracy & Speed: Zero errors in encoded data and minimal time taken for sales agents to extract the cheapest options from the system.

Pay: Php50,000.00 - Php60,000.00 per month

Benefits:

• Company events
• Opportunities for promotion
• Pay raise
• Work from home

Experience:

• Container Procurement & Pricing Analyst: 3 years (Required)
• Outbound sales: 3 years (Required)
• Cold calling: 3 years (Required)

Work Location: Remote