We take care of our employees, and they take care of our customers!
Become a member of a global community! The international logistics industry is an integral piece of the global trade puzzle; we make the world go round. Global supply chain management is what we do, and at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics. Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 company, we employ over 19,000 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 350+ locations across six continents. Expeditors satisfies the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems.
Our Mission
We recruit, train, and retain the very best logistics and technical experts the world over. We love to promote from within - more than 50 percent of our employees have been at Expeditors for five years or more. Our high retention rate is influenced by a unique compensation program for positions that are more than just jobs - they're chances to grow, do what you love and build a career with us!
Job DescriptionKey Responsibilities
- Prepare and manage quotes and RFQs, including complex, strategic, urgent, and high-value opportunities.
- Maintain an active pricing workload and provide hands-on support whenever team capacity, request complexity, or business priorities require it.
- Coordinate daily pricing assignments, monitor turnaround times, and take action to prevent or reduce backlog.
- Support Pricing Analysts with rate sourcing, provider selection, routing options, margin decisions, and challenging pricing requests.
- Review quotes for accuracy, completeness, competitiveness, profitability, and compliance with company standards.
- Obtain and compare rates from carriers, co-loaders, transportation providers, network offices, and other service providers.
- Negotiate rates and commercial conditions with carriers and service providers within delegated authority.
- Monitor margins and help ensure pricing decisions balance business conversion with appropriate profitability.
- Analyse quote results, customer feedback, wins, losses, rejection reasons, and market conditions to identify commercial opportunities.
- Maintain current knowledge of provider options, market rates, transit times, surcharges, GRI, PSS, and other relevant changes.
- Partner with Sales and Customer Service to understand customer requirements and develop competitive, executable solutions.
- Coach Pricing Analysts through practical support, quote reviews, and the sharing of commercial and market knowledge.
- Escalate significant margin exceptions, service risks, capacity constraints, and commercial commitments requiring management approval.
- Protect confidential customer, provider, contract, and pricing information.
These responsibilities preserve the original role’s focus on pricing execution, provider relationships, margin discussions, quote analysis, market intelligence, and timely responses.
Qualifications- Relevant pricing, freight forwarding, logistics, transportation, or industry experience.
- Practical experience preparing quotes and RFQs.
- Understanding of buying rates, selling rates, margins, profitability, surcharges, and commercial risk.
- Experience negotiating with carriers or service providers.
- Strong commercial judgement, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to supervise others while remaining actively involved in daily operational work.
- Strong communication, organisation, coaching, and relationship-management skills.
- Knowledge of relevant markets, carriers, routings, and service options.
- Proficiency with approved quoting tools, databases, Microsoft Excel, and related business systems.
Expeditors offers excellent benefits:
- Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick Time
- Health Plan: Medical
- Life Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Personnel Development Program
- Growth opportunities within the company
- Employee Referral Program Bonus
Skills Required
- Relevant pricing, freight forwarding, logistics, transportation, or industry experience
- Practical experience preparing quotes and requests for quotation (RFQs)
- Understanding of buying rates, selling rates, margins, profitability, surcharges, and commercial risk
- Experience negotiating with carriers or service providers
- Strong commercial judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to supervise others while remaining actively involved in daily operational work
- Strong communication, organization, coaching, and relationship-management skills
- Knowledge of relevant markets, carriers, routings, and service options
- Proficiency with approved quoting tools, databases, Microsoft Excel, and related business systems
Expeditors Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Expeditors and has not been reviewed or approved by Expeditors.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is supported through an Employee Stock Purchase Plan that is positioned as a standout perk, including references to a purchase discount and contribution limits. Stock-plan availability is treated as a meaningful wealth-building component of the overall rewards mix.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is described as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, vision, and prescription benefits, with additional protections like life and disability insurance. Benefit materials also point to common add-ons such as HSA options, EAP support, and broad baseline coverage in job postings.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits include a 401(k) plan with employer matching that is repeatedly cited as a defined component of the package. Auto-enrollment/auto-increase features are also referenced as mechanisms that support participation and savings behavior.
Expeditors Insights
What We Do
Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 (374) company, we employ over 16,500 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 320 locations across six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services. We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers' supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors' comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility. To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore. At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."
