About the Role:
We are partnering with a leading global freight forwarding and logistics company to appoint a Sales Support Manager. You will be the backbone of the sales department, bridging the gap between Operations and Business Development. Your focus will be on driving auto-rating efficiency, managing global RFQs, ensuring billing accuracy, and providing vital support to the sales team to help them close deals and optimize profit and loss.
Key Responsibilities:
Sales Support & Tender Management:
- Provide comprehensive support to the entire sales department with client freight requests, understanding their requirements to help close deals and optimize P&L.
- Analyze sales opportunities and negotiate with procurement to improve hit rates.
- Support Tender Management alongside Business Development and stakeholders to provide competitive solutions and offers.
- Maintain a working folder of updated and competitive costs.
- Support sales initiative campaigns and increase overall hit rate and market share.
Key Account Support & RFQs:
- Orchestrate multi-country opportunities and support global RFQs.
- Provide quotations to customers aligned with their freight management needs, company SOPs, and industry policies to ensure compliance and increase revenue.
- Contribute to the development of departmental KPIs for auto-rating and quoting efficiency.
- Ensure ongoing communication and alignment between Operations and Business Development to ensure optimum profitability and compliance of billing accuracy.
Process, EDI & Training:
- Drive EDI processes with the Core team and BPO as a Key User to minimize auto-rating issues.
- Improve the utilization of eService tools through training, education, and compliance.
- Provide training and guidance to Sales Support Executives to ensure EDI compliance and higher success in closing opportunities.
- Support the implementation of the Global Sales Process, including training and compliance.
- Enforce commercial rules and increase consistency of services and pricing.
Key Requirements:
- 5-10 years of working experience, preferably in the Freight Forwarding industry.
- Pro-active, solution-oriented, and hands-on.
- Ability to work independently and within a (virtual) team environment.
- Ability to translate customer needs into business-supporting solutions.
- Strong time and task management skills, able to plan, organize, and handle multiple assignments.
- Communicative, able to build trustful relationships across cultural differences and geographical distance.
- Well-organized with an interest in developing structures, methods, and tools.
- Pragmatic, flexible, and able to establish effective working relationships.