Account Manager - Greater Sudbury, Canada - Gardewine

Gardewine

Verified Company

Greater Sudbury, Canada

1 week ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Gardewine is a Manitoba company, with terminals across Canada and a strong history that dates back to the 1950's.

Since being founded in the northern community of Flin Flon we have grown significantly by diversifying within the transportation industry.

The most important aspect of our company's operations is our dedicated people;
_our people will always be the source of our success and their safety and health will always come first_.

We are currently seeking an
Northern Ontario
Account Manager_ _
to join our team._ Ideally, this person will be based in Sudbury but can also be based out of another Gardewine Terminal in Northern Ontario._**The Gardewine Account Manager is responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with existing and potential accounts and organizations.

Explores, solicits, and fosters partnerships with existing and potential businesses that promote growth and diversity in our service offerings, which in turn improves profitability.

Duties and Responsibilities

Primary responsibility is to acquire and grow organization accounts
Develop strong relations within accounts
Develop and implement business plan to stimulate revenue from existing and new business
Followup and maintain accounts by conducting visits, routine phone calls and supplemental calls on current business activity
Solicit business from various sources
Ensure rate agreements and rate increases are current
Prepare rate requests, bring to proposal stage and followup in a timely manner
Conduct customer after sales service calls and development calls with existing customers
Assist with providing rate quotes to customers
Ability to be productive and achieve results with mínimal supervision
Sustains and provides regular communication with operations team
Participates in sales and management meetings
Report on sales activities and account variances
Identifies opportunities, threats and risks to the business
Collaborate with Director of Sales to establish achievable, productive goals and clarify workload priorities
Communicate customer needs and requests with operations and administration and followup with the resolution
Participates in safety initiatives
Other operational duties as assigned in support or the departmental goals and objectives

Qualifications
Three to five years' experience in distribution, logistics or transportation at a supervisory or CSR level preferred. Strong leadership and management skills to solve problems timely and effectively while maintaining customer relationships. Intuitive sales skills to manage the daily operations while at the same time anticipate future opportunities or challenges. Excellent time management skills to work independently, while managing multiple tasks in a fast pace environment. Experience using all Microsoft office programs, customer relationship management programs, or other logistics software programs is necessary. Post-Secondary education preferred.

Physical Requirements
Regular use of computer and phone in a sedentary position.

Will be required to travel (approximately 1 week per month)

Will be required have valid license and own vehicle to make customer service calls.