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.
About The Role:
The Account Executive reports to a National Account Director and supports the operations and growth of existing accounts by leveraging Spot’s services and freight solutions to nurture relationships and build lasting partnerships. This role requires excellent communication skills, a service-oriented approach, and a strong work ethic.
Account Executives are responsible for executing internal operations, communicating with the customers, carriers, and developing, maintaining, and growing relationships. This is a non-exempt position under the Fair Labor Standards Act and, as such, is overtime eligible.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Manage client operational relationships and day-to-day operations between customers, carriers, and the company by ensuring customer satisfaction, addressing carrier inquiries, and developing and executing problem resolution.
- Serve as a direct avenue of clear communication for carriers and the internal carrier sales by developing, operating, maintaining, and growing assigned accounts.
- Ensure consistent operations and load management with internal Spot stakeholders, as dictated by customer needs; up to and including coordination with Spot teams in Carrier Account Management, Carrier Services, and Logistics.
- Tracking and tracing booked shipments, as needed.
- Answering incoming calls, auditing load information, and entering load data when booking loads.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred, previous sales or customer service experience desirable.
- Logistics industry knowledge preferred.
- Proven track record of successful customer support.
Skills:
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and meet performance metrics
- Strong communication skills – persuasiveness, assertiveness, confidence, resiliency.
- 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.
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Spot is built on relationships, combining 24/7 support with a proven, passionate, and dedicated team of logistics professionals. You can reach your true potential through the unlimited opportunities we offer. When you put in the effort, show initiative, solve problems, and build lasting client relationships, you earn respect and rewards. You’ll also be a key component to the success of an industry leader. At Spot, we’ve never lost the entrepreneurial spirit that provides the foundation for our success.
Spot Freight, Inc. 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 federal, state, or local laws. Spot Freight is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. If, because of a disability, you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact our Human Resources team to notify us of your request. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
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Spot is built on relationships, combining 24/7 support with a proven, passionate and dedicated team of logistics professionals. As one of the most trusted and fastest growing 3PLs in the nation, we bring carriers, shippers and loads together so that your freight arrives on time, every time.
