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.