Account Manager
Job Description
Major Duties and Responsibilities:
- Strengthen relationships with existing house accounts.
- Penetrate organizational structure for house accounts and develop relationships at all levels beyond main point of contact.
- Understand customers' business and strategy and our role with the customer.
- Ensure customer satisfaction and follow up.
- Communicate service issues to Department Managers/Supervisors.
- Action items lists maintained and updated weekly for follow up items.
- Identify opportunities and grow business from existing house accounts.
- Assist with collections when needed.
- Manage client profiles - separated out by location.
- Build territory maps showing number of accounts located in each city – update monthly
- Teamsell input & management for significant calls.
- Fluent in EI systems and demos in order to provide technical updated to LAM accounts
- Involve sales and operations at appropriate times.
- Share weekly schedule with all Departments to help coordinate and participate in joint account visits.
- Turn major business opportunities and proposals over to Sales and operational issues to Ops.
- Management of Business Reviews – goal is to have a minimum of one per account per year
- Continually seek improvement in procedures and services to create more efficient and cost effective operations.
- Assume lead responsibility for the efficient delivery of all local (branch) services.
- Assist, and if needed, spearhead problem resolution for issues outside of local branch.
- Insure that a functioning and agreed upon invoicing - payment process is in place.
- Meet with the local customer to maintain customer information and satisfaction.
Requirements- Skills, Education, Experience:
- Minimum two years 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.
- Demonstrated customer service skills and proven interpersonal skills.
- Fluent English is a must
- Fluent Polish is a must
Expeditors offers excellent benefits:
- Private Medical Insurance
- Life Insurance
- MyBenefit (benefit platform)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Training and Personnel Development Program
- Growth opportunities within the company
- Employee Referral Program Bonus
- Expeditors Library
- Charity actions