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FAP Account Manager
AFS Logistics · Melville, New York, United States · also Greenville, South Carolina, United States
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In short
The Account Manager serves as the primary point of contact for established customers, ensuring service utilization and managing renewals. They also support sales teams with lead generation, product inquiries, and quarterly account reviews.
What they're looking for
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Candidates must possess an associate's degree or equivalent experience, along with proficiency in database, spreadsheet, and word processing software. Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills are required to manage customer relationships and internal task tracking.
About the employer
AFS Logistics
End shipping cost uncertainty.
AFS helps manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and other shippers improve transportation visibility, control costs, and optimize shipping performance. We are a group of shipping strategists that helps more than 1,800 companies across 35 countries better understand their freight costs. The company has over $11 billion in transportation spend under management, and uses that data along with decades of truckload, LTL and parcel experience to help advise, optimize and manage client shipping programs. AFS provides support throughout the process of buying, planning, executing and settling transportation services, constantly assessing performance to ensure shippers only pay what they should and get the service and operational outcomes they deserve.
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The company was founded in 1982 and employs more than 380 teammates across the U.S. and Canada. AFS is regularly part of the Inc. 5000 list of fastest growing companies. To learn more, visit www.afs.net.
- INDUSTRY
- Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
- COMPANY
- Privately Held
- FOUNDED
- 1982
- HEADQUARTERS
- Shreveport, Louisiana
- SIZE
- 201-500
- OFFICES
- 8 on LinkedIn
- OPEN HERE
- 2 roles
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Questions about this role
- Is this AFS Logistics role remote?
- Tagged on site.
- Does it sponsor visas?
- Listed as no visa sponsorship.
- What experience does it ask for?
- Listed as 0-2 years.
The posting, in full
Position can be located in Melville, NY or Greenville, SC. Purpose/Job Function: The Account Manager position is responsible for managing a set of established customers and sales of new products and services offered by the company. Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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Position can be located in Melville, NY or Greenville, SC.
Purpose/Job Function: The Account Manager position is responsible for managing a set of established customers and sales of new products and services offered by the company.
Essential Functions:
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Operate as the lead point of contact for any and all matters specific to our customers.
- Ensure the satisfactory implementation/installation/utilization of services.
- Assist in the identification and recognition of new business development opportunities.
- Assist Sales Representatives with pre-sales and post-sales activities such as providing product information and answering product questions and inquiries.
- Assist sales lead generation activities and maintain a database of qualified sales leads.
- Address customer issues through our proprietary task tracking tool.
- Load appropriate data regarding customer contacts, follow ups, and tasks into our customer database tracking tool.
- Prepare and execute quarterly customer account reviews.
- Understand the level of adoption and assess the risk of renewing existing contracts.
- Introduce new features and best practices to customers.
- Track and report on key metrics surrounding customer success.
- Lead efforts to turn around customers that are at a risk of leaving our services.
- Maintain renewal list monthly.
- Provide guidance when needed to sales and customer success teams with respect to post-sales contractual negotiations and opportunities.
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships
Qualifications and Requirements:
Skills
- Analytical
- Problem Solving
- Technical Skills
- Customer Service
- Interpersonal Skills
- Communication Proficiency
- Teamwork
Effort
- Physical Effort: the employee is regularly required to talk or hear; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. This is a largely sedentary role; however, some filing is required. This would require the ability to lift files, open filing cabinets and bending or standing on a stool as necessary
- Mental Effort: The employee is required to have a high level of attention to detail, ability to multitask regularly, and the ability to identify and resolve problems quickly
Responsibility
- A high level of confidentiality is required regarding all client specific data and safeguarding the information from other clients and competitors
- The ability to gather and analyze information, find possible solutions, select the best option, and evaluate the decision is required
- A high attention to detail is required, including verifying all work completed
- This position has no direct financial or budgetary responsibilities.
- This position has no supervisory responsibilities
- There is a requirement to maintain and update documentation on all processes and procedures for client-based workload
- All electronic and hardcopy confidential information must be secured when unattended
- This position participates on a team in the sales and marketing department and requires backing up other team members, and assisting with workload as needed
Education/Experience:
- Associate's degree or equivalent, or one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Knowledge of computer software including database software, internet software, spreadsheet software, PowerPoint software, and word processing software.
Working Conditions: This position will sit in front of a computer for long hours at a time and may cause eye irritation or even muscle strain.
This position does not require any strenuous or physical activity.
Customary Work Hours: 7:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.
AFS is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind: AFS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all teammates and to provide teammates with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
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