Manager, Pricing

Role Purpose:

The Manager, Pricing & Procurement is responsible for overseeing procurement activities across all modalities in collaboration with regional and Global teams. This role provides strategic leadership to a team of pricing analysts, ensuring seamless coordination with sales departments, coordinators, and administrative and operations teams. By optimizing procurement processes and fostering cross-functional collaboration, this position plays a critical role in driving the growth of DP World Freight Forwarding. 

This is an opportunity to lead procurement strategy within a globally recognized logistics organization that is actively expanding its end-to-end freight forwarding footprint. You'll have visibility across national and global teams, direct impact on profitability, and the opportunity to shape pricing strategy in a growing business.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead procurement strategy across ocean, air, LCL, and drayage/cartage carriers to optimize rates, capacity, and service performance.
• Develop and maintain strong strategic relationships with ocean carriers, airlines, and service providers to secure competitive pricing and space commitments.
• Conduct quarterly vendor performance reviews across all modalities and proactively respond to market and global rate changes.
• Ensure that rate & space implementation milestones are set in ISO fashion from all suppliers.
• Support national customer implementation projects from a procurement perspective.
• Lead and develop a team of Pricing Analysts responsible for daily rate requests, national accounts, and regional/global RFQs.
• Manage and report on procurement performance metrics (including 2+2 metrics for air and dray/cartage freight quoting).
• Collaborate with global DP World offices and ocean carriers to implement 24-hour rate turnaround standards aligned with Incoterms.
• Partner with Key Account and Commercial teams to identify growth opportunities and strengthen customer competitiveness.

Knowledge & Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years of experience in Logistics or Freight Forwarding industry with a strong focus on pricing and procurement. 
• Proven leadership experience managing teams and complex rate matrices across multiple transport modes.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to balance competitiveness and margin protection.
• Solid organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective communicator with the ability to collaborate across Sales, Operations, and Global teams.
• Excellent analytical skills with advanced proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office.
• Fluent in English.
• Previous Canadian work experience or experience working directly with Canadian industries.
   

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees, spanning 79 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future.

We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimizing disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.

At DP World Canada we're proud to offer a well-rounded total compensation package, for all permanent positions, that supports your health, wellbeing, and career growth. This includes but is not limited to:

• Competitive salary and annual bonus

• Generous vacation time with paid flex day and volunteer days

• Comprehensive health & dental benefits starting on day one

• Annual health/lifestyle spending account

• Defined contribution pension plan

• Employee wellness initiatives

• Internal training & learning opportunities

• Professional development support