Senior Customer Account Manager

NFI; Schaumburg (IL); Vor Ort; USD 88.166.000 - 144.648.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Senior Customer Account Manager at NFI in Schaumburg, IL, drives strategic growth and long-term relationships across assigned brokerage customers, aligning service delivery with profitability and NFI’s growth objectives. You will lead account plans, conduct business reviews, and negotiate rates across FTL, LTL, and Intermodal, while partnering with operations, sales, and finance to meet commitments.

This role requires 5+ years in freight brokerage or account management, proficiency with

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years in freight brokerage, logistics operations, or account management.
• Proficiency in TMS and CRM systems.
• Strong knowledge of DOT regulations, Hours of Service, and claims processes.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple accounts and translate insights into actions.
• Travel may be required for customer meetings and events.

Aufgaben

• Manage key customer accounts, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and NFI performance.
• Drive revenue and margin growth through opportunity identification and cross-selling of NFI services.
• Deliver high quality customer experience through KPI execution and proactive problem resolution.
• Create and maintain account-specific business plans and track pipeline activity.
• Lead customer business reviews with KPI dashboards and strategic insights.
• Negotiate rates across FTL, LTL, and Intermodal leveraging market data.
• Develop and oversee SOPs for each account to ensure service consistency.
• Partner with operations, sales, and finance to meet commitments and profitability targets.
• Identify risks or gaps and coordinate across departments to maintain performance.
• Support RFPs, pricing requests, and customer onboarding initiatives.
• Monitor market trends and lane pricing to protect margin integrity.
• Share best practices and drive efficiency across the team.
• Model NFI’s culture of accountability and customer-first execution.

Kenntnisse

Account management

Relationship building

Negotiation

Communication

Data analysis

Problem solving

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

TMS

CRM systems

HubSpot

MS Office

Jobbeschreibung

Overview

The Senior Customer Account Manager is responsible for driving strategic growth, operational excellence, and long-term relationship development across assigned brokerage customers. This role combines commercial account management, shipper experience leadership, and customer retention strategy ensuring exceptional service delivery, profitability, and alignment with NFI’s broader growth objectives. The position reports to the Director of Brokerage Operations.

Responsibilities

• Manage key customer accounts, ensuring alignment between customer expectations and NFI operational performance.
• Drive organic revenue and margin growth through opportunity identification, solution development, and cross‑selling of NFI services (Intermodal, Dedicated, Warehousing, etc.).
• Deliver high quality customer experience through consistent communication, KPI execution, and proactive problem resolution.
• Create and maintain account‑specific business plans, utilizing CRM and internal tools to track pipeline activity, performance metrics, and growth initiatives.
• Lead customer business reviews, presenting KPI dashboards, quarterly scorecards, and strategic insights to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Manage rate and service negotiations across FTL, LTL, and Intermodal modes, leveraging market data and pricing tools to competitively position NFI.
• Develop and oversee SOPs for each account to ensure service consistency, accurate billing, and adherence to customer requirements.
• Partner closely with operations, sales, and finance teams to ensure customer commitments are met and profitability targets are achieved.
• Proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, or service gaps and collaborate across departments to maintain performance standards.
• Provide insight and support for RFPs, pricing requests, and customer onboarding initiatives.
• Maintain awareness of market trends, capacity shifts, and lane pricing to anticipate customer needs and protect margin integrity.
• Use internal and industry tools to identify process enhancements, drive efficiency, and share best practices across the team.
• Model NFI’s culture of accountability, collaboration, and customer‑first execution demonstrating a “whatever it takes” mindset to support customers and peers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum 5 years in freight brokerage, logistics operations, or account management (FTL, LTL, Intermodal).
• Proficiency in TMS and CRM systems (HubSpot preferred), MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and internal pricing tools.
• Strong understanding of DOT regulations, Hours of Service, and claims processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation, and negotiation skills; strong conflict resolution and relationship‑building ability.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple accounts, analyze performance, and translate insights into actionable strategies.
• Commitment to continuous learning and development in line with customer and business needs.
• Ability to work a flexible schedule based on shipment volume and customer needs.
• Travel may be required for customer meetings, site visits, or leadership events.
• This job description provides a general overview of the role for purposes of recruiting and assessing talent for the role and its essential functions. However, each individual in the job may perform the duties to varying degrees and in varying ways based on many factors, including their experience, manager, skills, particular carrier mix, and personal preferences.

We are excited to share the base hourly rate for this position is $31/hour - $50/hour USD. NFI takes into consideration applicants' qualifications, experience, education, geographic location, when determining a starting rate of pay. This position is also eligible for an annual discretionary bonus

Employee Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Prescription Drug Coverage
• 401k Plan
• Wellness Program
• Life Insurance
• Paid Time Off
• Paid Parental Leave
• among other benefit plan options.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals With Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

LA County Applicants: The Company will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with applicable state and local laws.

Profit Center

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