Freight Forwarding BD Manager
Job Summary
This role focuses on driving financial growth and expanding the company's market position within the freight forwarding industry. The successful candidate will lead new business development, manage client pipelines, and coordinate shipments while maintaining relationships with carriers and subcontractors. You will work closely with internal teams to achieve sales targets and execute the company's broader sales strategy.
Responsibilities
- Develop new business and expand market share
- Manage sales pipeline and client conversions
- Coordinate shipments and sourcing of rates
- Maintain relationships with carriers and subcontractors
- Achieve KPIs and sales objectives
Required Skills
- 2-3 years Freight Forwarding sales experience
- Hunter sales mentality
- Carrier and subcontractor networking
- Sales forecasting and planning
- Internal team collaboration
Job Details
Job scope:
- Improve company’s market position and achieve financial growth
- Meet and exceed objectives through the development of new businesses, coordination of Business Development shipments and existing business penetration
- Identify target customers, initiate own sales calls, pursue them and ultimately convert them into clients
- Working with Finance and Indoor Sales team on payment issues and follow up on payment with clients
- Build and maintain a pipeline of business
- General profit in line with set KPIs
- Prepare sales planning, and forecasting activities
- Sourcing of rates from carriers, hauliers, offices and worldwide agents
- Interact and maintain relationship with subcontractors like carriers, coleaders and trucking companies etc
- Maintain effective teamwork with members of the Indoor Sales, Business Development team and other functional teams
- Support the sales strategy set by the Head of Business Development in conjunction with the Management
- Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed
- Successfully work across teams (internal and external) to overcome challenges and achieve objectives
- To perform other duties and tasks as assigned
- Adhere to all company policies in areas of Compliance, HSSE&Q, Code of Business Conduct, Employee Handbook
- Reporting and documenting of all sales activities with company’s internal system
Requirements:
- Minimum 2-3 years of hunter sales / business development experience in freight forwarding industry
- Proven track record and good networking with carriers, coleaders and trucking companies etc