Outside Sales - Key Account Executive

Company: Ocean Network Express
Location: Lombard
Posted on: March 10, 2025

Job Description:

Job Family:

Sales

Job Title:

Outside Sales - Key Account Executive

Role Summary:

The Sales position is responsible for developing, managing and executing the day to day sales strategy and activities under the supervision of Sales Management, to ensure profitability and volume growth goals under ONE's marketing and commercial policy/strategy are achieved. This includes commercial performance and accountability for customers.

Additional Responsibilities:

Sales Performance and Execution

• Achieve or exceed assigned volume and revenue budget from RKA/LKA account based by trade lane within the specific marketing objectives under the guidance of Sales Management.
• Maintain a new business account pipeline to achieve account portfolio expansion goals or to replace lost business when needed.
• Utilize ONE Force to maintain customer contacts, communications and relevant account information for cross functional stakeholder visibility and access.
• Maintain customer specific Account Plan (AP) by trade, provide input to space control analyst in required format on time.
• Monitor reporting including Looker and PowerBi resources; TPEB Marketing Report, TPEB Award File, TPWB Marketing Report, NA Lift Report. Share customer performance against their AP on a weekly basis. Take corrective action with customer as necessary to hold them accountable to meeting their commitment
• Maintain regular communication with sales support co-ordinator to agree on established priorities, ensure alignment of effort and coordinate division of work to support the customer and achieve budget goals.
• Monitor Customer Scorecard elements including AP performance, Accounts Receivables, container long dwell, contract terms, etc and take corrective action as necessary to change customer behavior.
• Manage customer tenders and follow existing processes including Eagle planning, boiler plate review, War Room prep, volume award upload. Responsible for post contract on-boarding as well as customer awareness/adoption of ONE DDE initiatives including e-commerce and ONE Quote.
  
  Direct and Manage Horizontally
  • Demonstrate effective relationships with other internal stakeholders to ensure a collaborative team, cross-functional level, performs to attain sales plan (i.e.--Operations, Pricing, Customer Service, other Sales Regions, Accounting)
    
    
    Core Required Skills and Competencies:
    • Ability to communicate necessary information with customers and stakeholders as appropriate
    • Successful persuasion, negotiation, and problem-solving skills with customers and stakeholders both inside and outside
    • Accountability for profitable business development and to on-board new business.
    • Ability to develop and implement tactical sales plan consistent with sales goals.
      
      
      Function-Specific Required Skills and Competencies:
      • Proven ability to successfully strategize, implement, execute and achieve day to day commercial plans to support and meet departmental goals.
      • Skilled in all facets of the sales process: lead generation, opportunity qualifications, sales execution solution and business case development, negotiating and closing
      • Track record of establishing goals and metrics for meeting/exceeding goals/ targets
      • Proven ability to lead and drive his or her performance from plan to close
      • Ability to communicate, present and influence counterpart levels of the client organization
      • Professional and personable demeanor
      • Able to build rapport across varying personality types
      • Ambitious and self-motivated
      • Strong communication skills, verbal and written
        
        Required Minimum Years Experience:
        
        5+ years of outside sales experience in container shipping or logistics sectors preferred
        
        Required Minimum Education:
        
        Bachelor's Degree preferred
        
        What we offer:
        
        • Opportunities available with hybrid working arrangements
        • Total rewards package including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability, 401K plan
          
          
          
          ONE partners with our customers to provide shipping solutions that help them win in the marketplace. ONE's 8,000 team members support customers around the world from more than 300 operating and business locations spanning North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Learn more at www.one-line.com .
          
          Resumes may be submitted to: usa.onecareers@one-line.com
          
          To learn more about Ocean Network Express NA and other available opportunities, please visit us at the below link:
          
          https://workforcenow.adp.com/ mascsr/default/mdf/ recruitment/recruitment.html? cid=5ebe3104-e38c-46ac-8508- 76b7402ab3ae&ccId=19000101_ 000001&lang=en_US
          
          Ocean Network Express provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. The annual salary for Illinois-based employees for this role is $70,000.00-$95,000.00
          
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