Freight Sales Manager – REMOTE

Freight Sales Manager – Fully Remote – Up to £42,000

Our Client, who are a global freight forwarder are looking for a Freight Sales Manager to join their team.

The Freight Sales Manager is required to drive sustainable financial growth through boosting sales and forging strong relationships with their customers.

* This role is fully remote but bi-weekly visits to the operation in Southampton would be required *

Job type: Permanent

Hours: 09:00am to 17:30pm

Package:

• Salary up to £42,000
• Call allowance
• Commission
• Pension
• Mobile phone and laptop

Responsibilities:

• Able to build and maintain good relationships with company’s customers, local (UK & EU) global partners and suppliers
• Canvass new business from their extensive Sales Lead base by virtue of Teams calls and other communication methods (No F2F customer visits-In Person, unless essential)
• Handle the quotes they receive in from our customers and global partners.
• A mixture of inbound sales calls plus external cold calling sales calls to customers
• Generating sales leads if required
• Acknowledge written receipt of the quotation requests from customers and global partners
• Obtain most cost effective solutions from our approved suppliers
• Ensure all quote requirements have been met
• Quote the customer in defined timeframe ensuring job profitability
• Follow up submitted quotes with the customer/partner within defined period
• Record the quote on quote-log with won/lost result and reasons
• Develop strong relationships with our customer and partners
• Accompany colleagues to supplier/customer/trade-shows & meetings (if necessary)
• Handle any minor issues with customers and suppliers
• Keep line-manager updated of any issues.
• Help and support other colleagues as and when necessary
• Manage the CRM Sales Performance Metrics and ensure Sales Pipeline values and stages are aligned
• Present Sales Performance Metrics to General Manager at required intervals
• Support with Linkedin marketing posts and brand promotion online

Experience required:

• Possessing a good network of suppliers for competitive rate provision
• Ability to price multimodal freight jobs is preferred but not essential
• Proficient in MS Office and CRM software
• Good understanding of Incoterms 2020
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• UK and EU multimodal freight-forwarding knowledge is essential
• Based in the UK

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