Ground Freight Sales Representative

Ground Freight Sales Representative

Identify, target, and develop new customer opportunities for Crane Freight ground transportation services. Generate new revenue through prospecting, cold calling, networking, referrals, and customer meetings. Develop and maintain a strong sales pipeline within assigned territories and industries. Create strategic sales plans to support company growth initiatives. Build long-term relationships with customers by understanding their transportation needs and operational challenges. Serve as the primary point of contact for customer opportunities and account development. Conduct regular customer visits, presentations, and business reviews. Maintain strong communication with customers to ensure service expectations are met. Maintain accurate sales activity, opportunities, and customer information within CRM systems. Provide regular pipeline updates, forecasts, and sales reports to leadership. Track and report on sales goals and revenue growth.

Education & Experience: 3+ years of transportation, logistics, or freight sales experience preferred. Knowledge of ground transportation operations and supply chain solutions. Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills, with a proven ability to generate new business and close sales opportunities.

Preferred Skills: Experience selling drayage, cartage, expedited, or dedicated transportation solutions. Existing customer relationships within logistics, retail, manufacturing, distribution, or freight forwarding industries. Understanding of operational transportation challenges and pricing structures. Experience working with asset-based transportation providers.

Physical Requirements: Talking, hearing and using hands to operate computer equipment. Vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Job may require extended sitting or standing, use of standard office equipment.

Why Should You Work for Crane? At Crane, we believe in providing our employees with excellent benefits at a Great Place to Work. We offer: Quarterly Incentive Plan, 136 hours of Paid Time Off which equals 17 days for the year, that can be used for Sick Time or for Personal Use, Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision benefits, Tuition Reimbursement for education related to your job, Employee Referral Bonuses, Employee Recognition and Rewards Program, Paid Volunteer Time to support a cause that is close to your heart and contributes to our communities, Employee Discounts, Wellness Incentives that can go up to $100 per year for completing challenges, in addition to a discount on contribution rates.