“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.
- 18,000 trained professionals
- 346 locations worldwide
- Fortune 500
- Globally unified systems
Job Purpose:
To implement winning business development strategies and enablers to achieve preset financial targets; to sustain productivity standards, market focus and share objectives; and to reach customer satisfaction and loyalty objectives for particular traffic segments i.e. Japan
Key Accountabilities:
- To provide sales support to achieve revenue targets and productivity standards.
- To perform quantitative and qualitative traffic analysis covering market trends, market characteristics, trade statistics and competitor activities.
- To implement customer segmentation strategies to identify respective customer characteristics and requirements, and to create Unique Value Propositions (UVPs).
- To proactively identify seasonal opportunities for business development.
- To devise effective and industry focused Lead Generation Programs.
- To drive program implementation across the sales organization through active involvement in joint sales activities.
- To closely work with operations and carriers to implement market attack strategies.
- To benchmark business performance with other Expeditors branches and competitors.
- To maintain an active prospect bank for continuous business growth.
- To travel overseas and solicit strategic sales activities.
- To create customer success stories and case studies to complement successful sales presentations.
- To take up additional assignments as required to meet with the Company needs.
Qualifications
- University Graduate or above in Business Administration or related fields
- Minimum 5 years’ proven account management experience in global logistics with high customer focus, action-oriented
- Excellent communication & presentation skills to look for the best practice solution through negotiation.
- Well-versed with the latest information technologies.
- Native speaker Japanese Language.
Expeditors offers excellent benefits
- Paid Vacation, Holiday, Sick Leave
- Group Medical, Life & Accident Insurance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Personnel Development Program
Top Skills
What We Do
Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 (374) company, we employ over 16,500 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 320 locations across six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services.
We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers' supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors' comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility.
To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.
At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you."
