Associate Account Manager

About the role

The Associate Account Manager is responsible for proactively maintaining and retaining relationships with existing customers for permanent commercial and industrial waste services in an assigned territory. The role involves making outbound calls and receiving inbound calls to retain business with Republic Services’ smaller, less complex commercial and industrial customers; and increasing the level of penetration in his or her existing customer base by selling the full suite of Republic Services products.

Responsibilities

• Effectively maintains and retains existing customers by proactively reaching out to existing customers on a daily basis
• Develops and maintains a thorough knowledge of the Company’s available services, lines of business, pricing structures, and offers additional services as appropriate to assigned existing customers
• Performs contractual re-signs on existing customers to extend customer relationship and increase customer profitability where appropriate
• Responds to all cancellation requests in alignment with the established escalation policy
• Proactively communicates with or responds to customers in support of company pricing initiatives
• Utilizes Salesforce on a daily basis, schedules and documents all activities such as calls, meetings and proposals
• Captures customer emails, minimizes rate restrictions and customer credits
• Increases customer penetration by selling full suite of Republic Services products
• Regularly meets with Sales Manager to review weekly customer retention and relationship activities, progress versus goals and status of key customer relationships
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Waste or transportation industry experience

Minimum Qualifications

• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• 0 - 2 years of customer service experience

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage
• Dental plans and vision coverage
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts
• Short- and long-term disability
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP)
• Employee discount programs
• Retirement plan with a generous company match
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Paid Time Off (PTO)

About Republic Services

Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE: RSG) is a leader in the environmental services industry. We provide customers with the most complete set of products and services, including recycling, waste, special waste, hazardous waste and field services. Our industry-leading commitments to advance circularity and support decarbonization are helping deliver on our vision to partner with customers to create a more sustainable world. In 2025, Republic’s total company revenue was $16.6 billion, and adjusted EBITDA was $5.3 billion. We serve 13 million customers and operate more than 1,000 locations, including collection and transfer stations, recycling and polymer centers, treatment facilities, and landfills. Although we operate across North America, the collection, recycling, treatment, or disposal of materials is a local business, and the dynamics and opportunities differ in each market we serve. By combining local operational management with standardized business practices, we drive greater operating efficiencies across the company while maintaining day-to-day operational decisions at the local level, closest to the customer.

Strategy

• Recycling and waste: Expand our recycling and waste business footprint throughout North America through organic growth and targeted acquisitions
• Environmental solutions: Provide comprehensive environmental solutions capabilities to help customers safely manage their most technical waste streams
• Sustainability innovation: Advance circularity and decarbonization through innovations like the Republic Services Polymer Center and Blue Polymers joint venture