Carrier Account Manager

About The Role

Today’s logistics marketplace is an ever-changing landscape where you can make your mark. Spot gives you the tools to tackle industry challenges for our partners. Here, initiative, drive, and teamwork form the basis for a rewarding, fast-paced career.

Responsibilities

• BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Procure, negotiate, and secure carriers to move available freight in a timely and cost-effective manner to meet the client’s needs while establishing essential relationships.
• CUSTOMER GROWTH: Provide consistent and exceptional service levels to carriers and internal customers to ensure pipeline growth to expand future capacity opportunities.
• RELATIONSHIPS: Develop and grow carrier relationships through lead generation, cold-calling, and referrals.
• FREIGHT OPERATIONS: Effectively analyze carriers and freight market to best meet our customers’ freight needs.
• RESULTS: Achieve and exceed monthly sales margin expectations and ensure carrier service levels and KPIs are met.
• COMMUNICATION: Proactively communicate with carriers and sales teams to fulfill commitments, exceed service expectations, and facilitate the resolution of carrier problems with shipment/deliveries.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 2+ years of Sales and Customer Service experience required.
• Knowledge in the logistics industry preferred.

Skills

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and meet performance metrics.
• Strong negotiation skills – persuasiveness, aggressiveness, confidence, resilience.
• Entrepreneurial and competitive spirit, passion, self-motivation.
• Organization and attention to detail.
• Adaptability, multi-tasking ability, sense of urgency.
• Confident decision-making skills, problem-solving ability, and issue resolution skills.

Pay

$56,000 base pay; plus commission

Schedule

Onsite 5 days a week - Chicago, Illinois