Pricing Engineer

Roadrunner Transportation Services•Downers Grove, IL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Roadrunner Freight is a Top 100 Trucking company and a Top Tier Service Carrier, revolutionizing the industry with significant investments in technology, a culture of continuous improvement, and intelligent and efficient direct routing. As a long-haul, metro-to-metro LTL carrier, Roadrunner offers more direct routes than any other nationwide Less-than-Truckload carrier in the United States, with a nationwide presence, terminals across 40+ markets, and more than $400 million in revenue. The company is growing and seeking a highly motivated Pricing Engineer to join its winning team. This role involves collaborating with customers and Sales executives to optimize price and service, performing cost and price analysis, executing bids, monitoring pricing decisions, and negotiating contractual agreements. The ideal candidate is results-driven and looking for a rapidly growing company with high growth and earnings potential.

Requirements

Excellent analytical, organizational, decision-making, and problem-solving skills required.
Eager to take on new projects and learn new skills.
Driven and willing to take initiative and self-direct to reach organizational goals.
Comfortable with extracting the “story” that data tells and presenting complex information to management.
Detail-oriented with the ability to multi-task and prioritize tasks.
Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Industrial Engineering.
Other Engineering degrees and majors with a strong analytical background, such as Business Data Analytics, will be considered.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, most notably in Microsoft Excel.
Ability to learn new systems quickly, use spreadsheets, computer models, and computer-generated reports.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with customers and Sales executives to optimize price and service for new and existing accounts.
Utilize various analytical tools to perform cost and price analysis on datasets with varying levels of complexity.
Execute direct-customer and 3PL bids by optimizing both the yield and the available capacity of our network.
Measure and monitor the results of strategic and tactical pricing decisions.
Interpret, develop, and negotiate customer tariff and contractual pricing agreements.
Utilize analytical strategies to develop and negotiate rate increases for customers and 3PL partners.
Make evidence-based, impactful business decisions as a result of interpreted data analysis.
Model pricing scenarios to predict impact of changes on organizational performance.
Represent the company on customer conference calls and onsite visits as a pricing subject matter expert.