Local Account Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

“We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder

Global supply chain management is what we do, but 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.

  • 15,000 trained professionals
  • 250+ locations worldwide
  • Fortune 500
  • Globally unified systems

Job Description

Scope of position

To create a unique Expeditors customer experience through total ownership of and accountability to:

  • Understand global customer's profile, needs and expectations,
  • Retain existing business and coninuous pursuit of global business development,
  • Create a strategic and mutually beneficial relationship for Expeditors with the customer worldwide.

System & Tools & Account Administration

  • Proper Customer Organization structure in CRM following the company's global standards
  • CRM input and management ensuring data integrity at all times
  • Assist in creating and maintaining customer's SOPs and ensure full ownership of tactical responsibilites by operation and customer service teams
  • Set the right expectations internally as well as externally with the customers
  • Leverage and implement Expeditors' reporting tools and value add solutions internally and externally with all selected customers
  • Evaluate their usage and quantify cost savings/cost avoidannce
  • Utilize corporate approved templates and presentations and customize when necessary

 

Retention

  • Establish proper customer business mapping to ensure complete understanding of customer's global business, stakeholders, spending, strategy, goals, etc.
  • Create and communicate a global strategic business plan in alignment with the customer's mapping and Expeditors' goals
  • Ensuring global visibility and collaboration across Expeditors' network (Strategic updates, KPIs, service deliverables, initiatives, etc.)
  • Penetrate customers' organization structures at all levels, developing relationships beyond the main point of contact at all locations
  • Initiate value added solutions based on Expeditors' service offerings and technology
  • Ensure and drive the appropriate global allignment and engagement with the customer through meetings and reviews

Development

  • Persue a larger global wallet share with all customers while promoting up and cross selling with all customers at all locations
  • Collaborate with the various department and branches through regular meetings and joint calls to promote existing new service offerings at all locations
  • Ownership, accountability, and ongoing management of global pipeline and opportunites to ensure a healthy growth potential and faster business closure
  • Promote Expeditors' marketing activities and customer events
  • Schedule regional and international travel when necessary to address global business need and growth potential
  • Continuous review of customers' revenue report and analysis aimed at identifying "at risk" customers and negative trends

 

Measurement of Success

  • Annual performance review
  • Has an active sales pipeline for most customers
  • Global revenue development and product diversification of district owned accounts
  • Ratio of unplanned customers lost
  • Dynamics data integrity and timliness
  • Customer meetings and reviews as required

 

 

 

 

 

Qualifications

Requirements- Skills, Education, Experience:

  • High school degree or equivalent business qualifications.

  • Minimum two years Expeditors/industry experience.

  • Ability to create/write customer requirements clearly for use by other Expeditor employees.

  • Knowledge of required Expeditors operating systems as well PC skills including word processing and Excel.

  • Demonstrated customer service skills and proven interpersonal skills.

  • Level one Account Management certification.

  • Level one Sales certification.

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