Global Quoting Specialist (maternity leave cover)
- Multiple locations
- Hybrid
This ad is for a temporary maternity leave cover.
The Global Quoting Specialist is an individual contributor responsible for ensuring that the offnet tail pricing is efficiently administrated for specific customer cases. The Quoting Specialist must also play a significant role in finding the best solution in terms of price, delivery timescales, supplier quality and technical specifications of the offered services
Day to Day Transactional
- Handle RFIs, RFQs and RFPs in order to support the acquisition of local access services
- Matching the targets and deadlines for the projects and bids
- Enters/uploads all quote requests into Arelion’s off net pricing tool
- Focus on timeliness of tail quotes, accuracy of quotes and RFS dates, and balancing best tail price, delivery timescales and supplier quality
- Working with automated quoting system, excel and Salesforce and supports Head of Global Quoting Team with most up-to-date offnet offering
- Assist in maintaining a database of quotes provided, to ensure budgetary costs can be estimated where speed is essential and to track same and/or similar requests coming in from different parties.
- Assist with any additional administrative requirements (filing of historical data) when required
- Administrates various offers for customer proposals and is able to maintain comparable statistics on achieved tail pricing
- Produces reports on a timely manner to ensure that quotes are up-to-date and to measure performance of suppliers and escalates any issues
- Run specific recurrent reports and ad-hoc reports requiring wider or carrier specific knowledge.
- Responsible for coordinating and reviewing off net local access quotes for enterprise coming via SF
- Maintaining the daily relationship with Buyers within the Network Procurement team
- Supports sales team in order to achieve best solution and price for the specific customer case
SPECIFIC AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Extensive & fundamental expertise about the telecommunication sector / carrier market welcome but not mandatory
- High level expertise in vendors/suppliers of capacity products & services welcome
- High level of commercial awareness
- Excellent analytical skills
- High level of documentation and presentation skills
- Good IT knowledge
SOFT SKILLS
- Good team player
- Accuracy
- Excellent communication skills
- Flexible, open to changes
- Being initiative & convincing
- Competent planning and organizing skills
- Good decision making abilities
- Self disciplined and able to work on own initiative
Work with great people
Great Place to Work
Flexible working hours
Hybrid workspace
Health & Wellbeing
A healthy work – life balance approach
Diverse workplace
Equal Opportunity Employer
About the company
From humble beginnings in the early 1990s, we have become connectivity partner of choice to the world’s largest content providers, operators and enterprises. In the past, our network laid the very foundations of the Internet revolution and today it’s enabling digitalization throughout business and society.
Arelion, formerly Telia Carrier, is owned by Polhem Infra, a Swedish investment company backed by some of the largest Swedish public pension funds. We started building our network in 1993, when our Autonomous System, AS1299, was allocated, and we’ve grown organically ever since. Our network now stretches 70,000 kms across Europe, North America and Asia and lets you connect directly to more than 2,300 wholesale customers in more than 125 countries. With more than 450 local access partners around the world, we are the backbone of your business, wherever you are.
Arelion provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by relevant local laws.
2022Telia Carrier is now Arelion
2020Telia Carrier acquired by Polhem Infra
2019Expands US East Coast corridor with capacity options that bypass Manhattan into Secaucus NJ
2018Direct Cloud Connect to top 5 Clouds in the US and EU
2017Collaborates with Facebook and Coriant on TIP Voyager Open Optical Network
2015Telia Carrier Internet backbone ranked no. 1 first time
2013First with 100G in both US and Europe
2011Successfully completes world’s first terabit optical trial
2000First carrier to offer cross-border mobile data roaming
1999First carrier to offer cross-border services for gaming
1998First carrier to sell wavelengths
1993AS1299 was born
Jana Bernklauova | Contact Person
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