Customer Account Specialist

C.H. Robinson; Eden Prairie (MN); Hybrid; USD 23,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical plans

401(k) with company matching

Paid time off

Job summary

C.H. Robinson is seeking a Customer Account Specialist in Minnesota to build and manage relationships with customers while collaborating with internal teams. You will learn account management, sales, and operations through our onboarding and mentoring programs, with a clear path for growth within the company.

Day-to-day tasks include proactive communication, data-driven insights, and optimization of operational efficiency in a collaborative environment where promotion from within is encouraged.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
• Previous Customer Engagement Experience.
• Willingness to travel up to 5% domestically.

Responsibilities

• Build and develop relationships with customers to ensure continued partnership.
• Communicate shipment updates proactively and accurately ensuring a customer centric approach.
• Analyze customer inquiries and provide quality and timely insights and updates to your customers.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency.
• Respond to customers with a sense of urgency to provide an excellent customer experience.
• Leverage Navisphere, the company’s technology platform, to generate reports and analyze load data to exceed customer expectations.
• Network internally with Account Management, Operations, and Capacity teams.

Skills

Customer engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Do your friends describe you as a “people person?” Do you have customer relations experience? Are you looking for a role that will give you an opportunity to learn account management, sales, and operations, and jump start your career with an eye to the next opportunity? Then you are ready to grow your best self here as a Customer Account Specialist.

Here’s what your day-to-day will look like. You’ll build relationships with customers and collaborate with internal teams to solve challenging customer problems. You’ll lean into our proven processes and innovative technology platform to manage shipments while growing your skills in operations, sales, and account management. As for the future, this role has multiple career paths, and we love to promote from within.

Our commitment to you begins on day one with our dynamic and comprehensive onboarding program. This interactive training jumpstarts your knowledge of our company and industry, helps you excel here and ensures your proficiency in our systems and processes. The training is a mix of activities, self-guided learning, as well as in-office coaching and mentoring. You will come out of this experience ready to be a part of our success and a high performing member of the team.

Here, you have the flexibility to create a career that works with your life. Not to mention a collaborative, welcoming culture, inclusive employee resource groups, virtual happy hours, networking events... We could go on and on!

Flexibility for your wellbeing

At C.H. Robinson we're firm believers in the power of in-person collaboration to fuel innovation and propel success. In this role you will engage with peers in-office four days a week, igniting creativity and driving impactful results. With the flexibility for remote work one day a week, this role strikes the perfect balance between teamwork and autonomy.

On your next adventure, you’ll:

• Build and develop relationships with customers to ensure continued partnership
• Communicate shipment updates proactively and accurately ensuring a customer centric approach
• Analyze customer inquiries and provide quality and timely insights and updates to your customers
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve operational efficiency
• Respond to customers with a sense of urgency to provide an excellent customer experience
• Leverage C.H. Robinson’s global technology platform, Navisphere, to generate reports, analyze load data and exceed customer expectations
• Network internally with Account Management, Operations, and Capacity teams

You’re a great fit if you have:

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent
• Previous Customer Engagement Experience
• Ability to travel up to 5% (domestically)

Even better if you:

• Value a diverse and inclusive work environment
• Have basic proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite of Programs
• Display attention to detail, accuracy, and problem solving
• Exhibit demonstrated negotiation, collaboration, and influencing skills
• Hold a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university

We value an environment where you can grow by challenging yourself, and are supported with the potential for internal promotion – within Sales, Global Forwarding, Operations, Account Management or other areas – so you can discover new interests, develop your strengths, and reach your life goals.

Compensation Range

$17.31 - $36.04

The base pay range displayed on the job posting reflects the minimum and maximum base pay for this specific location. Your individual base pay within this range is determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base pay only and do not include additional variable compensation.

Equal Opportunity

C.H. Robinson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to a workplace and performance culture that reflects the strengths of our worldwide marketplace. We value unique experiences and diverse backgrounds of our people within our company, our business relationships, and our communities. We’re committed to providing an inclusive environment, free from harassment and discrimination, where all employees feel welcomed, valued and respected.

EOE\\Disabled\\Veteran

Benefits

Your Health, Wealth and Self

• Three medical plans which include
  • Prescription drug coverage
  • Enhanced Fertility benefits
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Health Savings Account (including employer contribution)
• Dental and Vision
• Basic and Supplemental Life Insurance
• Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid observed holidays
• 2 paid floating holidays for U.S. hourly employees
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) offered to U.S. salaried employees — no accruals and no caps. Paid Time Off (PTO) offered to all other employees in the U.S. and Canada
• Paid parental leave
• Paid time off to volunteer in your community
• Charitable Giving Match Program
• 401(k) with 6% company matching
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Plus a broad range of career development, networking, and team-building opportunities

Learn more about our benefit offerings on our BENEFITS & WELLBEING page