Join Maersk as an MGF Customer/ Supplier Rate Management Specialist for a full-time role based in Chennai, India, working US shift timings. You will manage the end-to-end rate management process, ensuring contract accuracy, compliance, and system configuration.
Requirements
Required degree: Bachelor's degree in commerce, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
Required experience: 3 to 6 years of relevant experience.
Required skills: OTM - Contract & Rate Validation, analytical and problem-solving skills, stakeholder management, and communication skills.
Skills & Responsibilities
OTM - Contract & Rate Validation: Review and validate customer and vendor contracts, ensuring standard rates and terms are accurate before production release.
Stakeholder Management: Coordinate proactively with Rate Owners for rate amendments, renewals, and contract expiries to prevent billing discrepancies.
Problem-Solving Skills: Perform rate testing and issue resolution to identify configuration gaps and prevent incorrect transportation charges or shipment-rating failures.
Process Governance: Maintain audit compliance through SOPs, controls, approval records, and supporting contract evidence.
Potential transition routes: People from pricing analyst or logistics operations roles may bring strong analytical and contract management skills, alongside meeting the required 3 to 6 years of experience.
Job description
Key Responsibilities:
Manage the end-to-end Rate Management process, from receipt of approved contracts through rate validation, configuration, testing, and operational readiness.
Review and validate customer and vendor contracts, ensuring standard rates, accessorial charges, validity dates, units, conditions, and commercial terms are complete and accurate.
Ensure rate-filing accuracy and quality by validating system configurations against approved contracts before rates are released in production.
Manage rate amendments, renewals, and contract expiry, proactively coordinating with Rate Owners to ensure updated rates are received and configured before existing rates expire.
Perform rate testing and issue resolution to identify configuration gaps and prevent incorrect transportation charges, shipment-rating failures, and billing discrepancies.
Maintain process governance and audit compliance through appropriate SOPs, controls, approval records, exception documentation, trackers, and supporting contract evidence.
Drive continuous improvement and performance management by monitoring rate accuracy, turnaround time, exceptions, backlog, expiry compliance, and recurring issues while identifying opportunities for standardization and automation.
Key Skills & Competencies:
OTM - Contract & Rate Validation
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Effective stakeholder and customer management skills
Good written and verbal communication skills
Collaborative mindset with a focus on continuous improvement
3 to 6 years of relevant experience.
Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree in commerce, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
Shift Timings:
US Shift
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