Carrier Development Representative

Redwood Logistics
Chicago, IL
Category Sales
Job Description
Role Overview

As an Afterhours and Weekend Carrier Sales Representative, you will be responsible for identifying, sourcing, and developing strong business relationships with service providers to achieve maximum profitability and customer satisfaction. You will track load life cycle from shipment to delivery, communicate relevant freight updates, and provide and negotiate freight rates to motor carriers.

What You Will Do

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include tracking load life cycle, communicating freight updates, providing and negotiating freight rates, coordinating available customer freight with available motor carrier equipment, and maintaining a file of all open truck shipments.

Why It Might Be a Fit

To be successful in this role, you will need excellent communication, networking, negotiation, and problem-solving skills, as well as the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and be flexible to meet the demands of market conditions and/or company needs.

Requirements

  • Excellent communication, networking, negotiation, and problem-solving skills
  • Results-driven
  • Thrives in a fast-paced environment
  • Flexible; ability to change focus quickly to meet the demands of market conditions and/or company needs
  • Logistical planning, routing, or dispatch experience a plus

Benefits

  • Access to experts and resources for your Learning & Development journey
  • Opportunity for internal mobility
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
  • Annual fundraising and volunteer events to give back to communities
  • Paid time off, floating holidays, time off to volunteer and rollover
  • Paid parental leave
  • Medical, dental, vision and 401k plans (with match)
  • Flexible spending account, mass transit and dependent care plans available
  • Health savings account, with a annual company contribution for plan participants
  • Short-term and long-term disability; life insurance policies subsidized by company
  • Additional benefits including pet insurance, accident care, access to legal advice and more
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