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Third Coast Logistics, LLC is seeking an Account Manager to build and maintain strong relationships with a portfolio of customers. The role involves negotiating shipments, developing new business from existing clients, and collaborating with operations to optimize service, capacity, and profitability.
The successful candidate will be organized, customer-focused, and able to work in a fast-paced logistics environment, with experience in 3PL, freight brokerage, or related fields.
The Account Manager role creates long-term, trusting relationships with our customers. The role is to oversee a portfolio of assigned customers, develop new business from existing clients and actively seek new opportunities. Account Managers answer customer questions, seek to solve their issues, and identify new business opportunities among existing customers. In this role, you will collaborate with operations to improve the entire customer experience. If you have a flair for customer communication and understand customer behavior, we’d like to meet you.
Serve as the lead point of contact for all customer account management matters
Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships
Negotiate pricing on shipments and maximize profitability
Develop new business with existing customers and or identify areas of improvement to meet goals
Review accounts month/month performance, identify strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities
Work with management to develop and execute an overall game plan for each account.
Communicate with operations to ensure load coverage, service, available capacity and margin
3PL, Logistics, or Freight Brokerage experience preferred
Willing to learn and apply developed skills
Great attitude a must
Organized and have ability to multi-task in a fast-moving environment
Ability to work with different technology systems