Strategic Business Development Executive- Ocean Freight Sales

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 six (6) 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. Preferred Qualifications: The selected candidate should have a strong background in Ocean Freight Sales. Pay Transparency: Pay: $11,663.95 - $19,828.72 per Month Additional Details: The selected candidate will have the opportunity for hybrid work, with some work from home opportunity as well as occasional in office work when not on business travel. Pay Transparency: The compensation listed reflects the pay range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position at the posted location or locations. If this opportunity includes multiple job levels, the pay information represents the ranges for each level in that job family. Actual pay is determined by several job-related factors permitted by law and relevant to the position, including, but not limited to, experience relative to the job, tenure, market level, pay at the location for this job, performance, schedule, and work assignment. In California, the compensation listed reflects the range or rate of pay reasonably expected for this posted position upon hire. In New Jersey, any compensable Security and Walk time will be paid to non-exempt/hourly employees at the state minimum wage. For details on our comprehensive benefits, click here. California Fair Chance: Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with theLos Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, the City of Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. FedEx complies with criminal history and Security Threat Assessment (STA) screening requirements defined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for positions requiring security identification display area (SIDA) access, Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulations for commercial driving positions, Department of Defense Facility Security Office standard procedures in covered facilities, and all other laws, regulations, or executive orders, including those required by federal, state, or local government contract, or which the Attorney General determines to be essential for an employer to do business with an agency or department of the federal, state, or local government. FedEx Logistics provides freight forwarding, as well as import and export services that allow companies to reach markets throughout the world. 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