Strategic Business Development Executive - Gardena, United States - FedEx Logistics

FedEx Logistics

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Gardena, United States

2 weeks ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

FedEx Logistics

Sales/Solutions
RC717960
Full Time
Regular
No
Gardena, California; Coppell, Texas; East Point, Georgia; New York, New York; Elk Grove Village, Illinois

Develops and maintains strategic partnerships with new or existing customers. Oversee customer accounts, strategically developing solutions that precisely meet customer needed and drive optimal sales and profits. Identifies opportunities for account growth while offering customers a full array of value-added services. Identify key trends for ocean and freight forward industry to determine new sales opportunities. Monitors competitor actions to ensure that appropriate responses are formulated and communicated.

Responsibilities:

Establish strategic partnerships for company's ocean and freight forward business. Demonstrate an agile mindset, lead by example, and embrace change, emphasizing attentive listening to business objectives.

Develop customer accounts on a global scale, driving growth through high-level strategies and leading the account growth for effective execution.

Prospecting of target customers through proactive networking and leveraging existing relationships within the broader FedEx enterprise. Developing the sales strategy for the deployment of the Company's services to customer opportunities within ocean and freight business. Ensures attainment of revenue and margin/yield goals for assigned accounts. Formulate and develop comprehensive business plans for each account. Address sales growth activities, competitive pricing strategies while coordinating customer-based activities and strategies globally.

Engage with customers at a senior level to assess satisfaction, manage critical situations with at-risk accounts, and ensure a proactive approach to customer needs.

Collaborate across functional areas in development of solutions, proposals, and pricing models. This includes attending sales calls to further define the opportunity and develop the value proposition for account closure. Manage the proposal and presentation process. Utilize established processes and tools and ensure all data is accurate and up to date. Provide weekly reporting on all accounts in stages for new business development.

Provide leadership for sales to the Company by continuously energizing the effort for moving new potential customers through the sales cycle in a professional, passionate, and engaging manner.

Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree/equivalent and eight (8) years of ocean and freight forward sales experience required. Experience selling to C-Suite Executives is highly preferred. Proven experience with logistics processes, solutions and project management. Strong understanding of ocean freight import process from issuance to final delivery. Successful experience selling solutions globally to customers of varying size and complexity. Demonstrated ability to achieve major account sales goals & to plan & execute major customer sales strategies. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop effective customer and employee relationships. Strategic planning and sales management skills.

Additional Information

Posting Date:

**_
New York City, NY

Compensation Range:
$121, $238,500.00 depending on education, experience, location and company policy. _**
_Los Angeles, CA

Compensation Range:
$121, $238,500.00 depending on education, experience, location and company policy. _

_This position is only open in the listed cities. _
**_Relocation is not provided.
- **FedEx Logistics provides freight forwarding, as well as import and export services that allow companies to reach markets throughout the world. They help customers of all sizes solve the intricacies of shipping goods globally by providing comprehensive international ocean and air freight forwarding, surface transportation and distribution, customs brokerage, trade and customs advisory services, and advanced e-commerce and trade facilitation solutions. We're glad you stopped by and hope your job search experience with FedEx Logistics, Inc. will be rewarding. We look forward to hearing from you

FedEx Logistics, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their protected veteran or disability status.

Pay Transparency Policy Statement:

The Company 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 required to do so by law or the FedEx Logistics Legal Department.

Equal Employment Opportunity:
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