BD Manager Freight Forwarding
Job Summary
The Business Development Manager will drive financial growth and improve market position through freight forwarding sales and new business development. Responsibilities include identifying target customers, converting clients, sourcing rates, and collaborating with internal teams to achieve sales KPIs. Candidates are required to have 2-3 years of hunter sales experience specifically within the freight forwarding industry.
Responsibilities
- Develop new businesses and penetrate existing markets
- Identify target customers and convert into clients
- Source rates from carriers, hauliers, and worldwide agents
- Prepare sales planning, forecasting, and report activities
Required Skills
- 2-3 years hunter sales experience in freight forwarding
- Good networking with carriers and trucking companies
- Strong business development and negotiation skills
Job Details
Business Development Executive / Manager (Freight forwarding Hunter sales)
5 days, 9am- 5.30pm
Address: UE Square Singapore 239920 (Fort Canning)
Salary: up to $5500 depends on experience + Commission, Basic salary can nego if good experience
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