Georgia Staffing
Account Manager
Account Managers grow and maintain profitable ArcBest business by selling and marketing ArcBest solutions and services to current and prospective customers. Responsibilities include assisting in collection process and cargo claim prevention, aggressively pursuing customers using networking, social media, and customer referrals, conducting calls and face-to-face meetings with customers, creating service solutions for customers' unique business problems, monitoring the company's industry competitors, new products, and market conditions to understand a customer's specific needs, negotiating service requirements and prices, managing business relationships and entertaining customers, collaborating with customers, front-line management, and various ArcBest departments, making sales calls and presentations to customers of all sizes, maintaining and growing expertise of ArcBest service offerings, obtaining and developing new accounts utilizing company techniques and methods, identifying customer challenges, developing and implementing solutions to create opportunities, developing sales strategies and a comprehensive understanding of customers' business models, working in a team setting to accomplish goals, interacting with all employees and customers in a professional and courteous manner, maintaining a positive, customer-focused attitude in a highly intense environment, exhibiting excellent customer service, conducting and receiving phone calls and emails to identify opportunities, solve problems, build relationships, secure profitable business, and increase market share, completing itinerary and call report as required by company guidelines and IRS regulations, completing monthly sales audit reports and expense reports as company guidelines require, and maintaining accurate territory account information in the ArcBest database. Requirements include a Bachelor's Degree, preferred, relevant experience will be considered, transportation industry and related sales experience, preferred, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, knowledge of business solutions, competitors, and decision makers, preferred, knowledge of ArcBest company policies, services, computer systems and services capabilities, preferred. Competencies include addressing customer needs, cross-selling, negotiating, perseverance and follow-through, problem solving, relationship management, sales closing and agreements, and selling. Work hours are generally Monday - Friday between 8:00 am - 5:00 pm with occasional irregular hours depending on workload and customer events. Compensation is a salary position paid biweekly with variable compensation included. ArcBest is a multibillion-dollar integrated logistics company that helps keep the global supply chain moving. We offer ground, air, and ocean transportation through various capacity providers, including our LTL carrier ABF Freight, our truckload service MoLo, and our expedite fleet, Panther Premium Logistics. We also offer moving services through U-Pack. Our technology and innovations team, ArcBest Technologies, provides custom-built solutions, leading-edge technology, and advanced analytics that help support our customers and optimize supply chains. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability.
Account Managers grow and maintain profitable ArcBest business by selling and marketing ArcBest solutions and services to current and prospective customers. Responsibilities include assisting in collection process and cargo claim prevention, aggressively pursuing customers using networking, social media, and customer referrals, conducting calls and face-to-face meetings with customers, creating service solutions for customers' unique business problems, monitoring the company's industry competitors, new products, and market conditions to understand a customer's specific needs, negotiating service requirements and prices, managing business relationships and entertaining customers, collaborating with customers, front-line management, and various ArcBest departments, making sales calls and presentations to customers of all sizes, maintaining and growing expertise of ArcBest service offerings, obtaining and developing new accounts utilizing company techniques and methods, identifying customer challenges, developing and implementing solutions to create opportunities, developing sales strategies and a comprehensive understanding of customers' business models, working in a team setting to accomplish goals, interacting with all employees and customers in a professional and courteous manner, maintaining a positive, customer-focused attitude in a highly intense environment, exhibiting excellent customer service, conducting and receiving phone calls and emails to identify opportunities, solve problems, build relationships, secure profitable business, and increase market share, completing itinerary and call report as required by company guidelines and IRS regulations, completing monthly sales audit reports and expense reports as company guidelines require, and maintaining accurate territory account information in the ArcBest database. Requirements include a Bachelor's Degree, preferred, relevant experience will be considered, transportation industry and related sales experience, preferred, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, knowledge of business solutions, competitors, and decision makers, preferred, knowledge of ArcBest company policies, services, computer systems and services capabilities, preferred. Competencies include addressing customer needs, cross-selling, negotiating, perseverance and follow-through, problem solving, relationship management, sales closing and agreements, and selling. Work hours are generally Monday - Friday between 8:00 am - 5:00 pm with occasional irregular hours depending on workload and customer events. Compensation is a salary position paid biweekly with variable compensation included. ArcBest is a multibillion-dollar integrated logistics company that helps keep the global supply chain moving. We offer ground, air, and ocean transportation through various capacity providers, including our LTL carrier ABF Freight, our truckload service MoLo, and our expedite fleet, Panther Premium Logistics. We also offer moving services through U-Pack. Our technology and innovations team, ArcBest Technologies, provides custom-built solutions, leading-edge technology, and advanced analytics that help support our customers and optimize supply chains. An Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/Vet/Disability.