Outside Sales- Key Account Sales Representative

Ocean Network Express

5d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Sales position is responsible for developing, managing and executing the day to day sales strategy and activities under the supervision of Sales Management, to ensure profitability and volume growth goals under ONE’s marketing and commercial policy/strategy are achieved. This includes commercial performance and accountability for customers.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate necessary information with customers and stakeholders as appropriate
• Successful persuasion, negotiation, and problem-solving skills with customers and stakeholders both inside and outside
• Accountability for profitable business development and to on-board new business.
• Ability to develop and implement tactical sales plan consistent with sales goals.
• Proven ability to successfully strategize, implement, execute and achieve day to day commercial plans to support and meet departmental goals.
• Skilled in all facets of the sales process: lead generation, opportunity qualifications, sales execution solution and business case development, negotiating and closing
• Track record of establishing goals and metrics for meeting/exceeding goals/ targets
• Proven ability to lead and drive his or her performance from plan to close
• Ability to communicate, present and influence counterpart levels of the client organization
• Professional and personable demeanor
• Able to build rapport across varying personality types
• Ambitious and self-motivated
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written
• 2+ years of outside sales experience in container shipping or logistics sectors preferred
• Bachelor's degree preferred

Responsibilities

• Achieve or exceed assigned volume and revenue budget from RKA/LKA account based by trade lane within the specific marketing objectives under the guidance of Sales Management.
• Maintain a new business account pipeline to achieve account portfolio expansion goals or to replace lost business when needed.
• Utilize ONE Force to maintain customer contacts, communications and relevant account information for cross functional stakeholder visibility and access.
• Maintain customer specific Account Plan (AP) by trade, provide input to space control analyst in required format on time.
• Monitor reporting including Looker and PowerBi resources; TPEB Marketing Report, TPEB Award File, TPWB Marketing Report, NA Lift Report. Share customer performance against their AP on a weekly basis. Take corrective action with customer as necessary to hold them accountable to meeting their commitment
• Maintain regular communication with sales support co-ordinator to agree on established priorities, ensure alignment of effort and coordinate division of work to support the customer and achieve budget goals.
• Monitor Customer Scorecard elements including AP performance, Accounts Receivables, container long dwell, contract terms, etc and take corrective action as necessary to change customer behavior.
• Manage customer tenders and follow existing processes including Eagle planning, boiler plate review, War Room prep, volume award upload. Responsible for post contract on-boarding as well as customer awareness/adoption of ONE DDE initiatives including e-commerce and ONE Quote.
• Demonstrate effective relationships with other internal stakeholders to ensure a collaborative team, cross-functional level, performs to attain sales plan (i.e.--Operations, Pricing, Customer Service, other Sales Regions, Accounting)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees