Sales Executive - Alexandria
Sales executives function is a vital point of contact between the company and its clients; responding to queries or objections, offering advice, and promoting the transportation available solutions to clients and negotiate contracts/ offers on their behalf, with the goal of maximizing profits.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Promoting logistics solutions to clients and prospects that support their supply chain needs.
- Proactively reaching out to the customers’ organizations, identifying and selling innovative solutions and services to drive continuous improvement in their operations.
- Researching and seeking out prospects via sales calls to build a portfolio of clients.
- It is required to act as the link between clients, carriers, shippers, and consignees.
- Establishing and developing relationships with clients and providing them with excellent customer service.
- Overseeing the movement of clients’ goods, ensuring that they are picked up, transported, and delivered on time to their satisfaction.
- It also entails managing rate negotiation with clients.
- Must be current and maintain personal knowledge of prevailing in the market rates as well as competition.
- Communicate with clients and prospects.
- Calling customer over the telephone and schedule visits when necessary to follow up on potential business.
- They are also responsible for communicating with the operations team to track loads as well as clients/prospects to provide them with up-to-date information.
- ad-hoc duties, as required.