National Sea Logistics Trade Lane Manager-Captain

Are you thinking about advancing your career with one of the most successful logistics organizations worldwide? Here at Kuehne+Nagel, our corporate sales team is looking for a new Trade Sales Development Manager-Captain to join our Sales team.

Your Role

In this prominent, client-centric position, you will be instrumental in driving our global market expansion and ensuring the satisfaction of our customers. Your primary focus will be identifying opportunities and devising strategies to secure contracts with national companies seeking freight forwarding solutions. Reporting directly to the Sea Logistics Go-To-Market Development Director, with occasional global travel requirements.

Your Responsibilities

• Collaborate with team members globally to develop business intelligence for sales opportunities.

• Be a Subject Matter Expert for the France and Benelux trade lane for external customers and internal partners.

• Work with Operations and Customer Solutions to ensure new customer onboarding runs smoothly.

• Identify prospective target customers using the data in the customer relationship management system, and internal sales leads.

• Develop client sales strategies with Kuehne+Nagel marketing materials.

• Meet sales goals, provide sales pipelines, and keep management up to date on market conditions.

Your Skills and Experiences

• French Linguistic experience

• 3+ years' experience in supply chain/freight forwarding with trade lane experience.

• Sea Logistics sales experience.

• Experience identifying and closing customers with current book of business.

• Experience working across multiple cultures and building relationships internationally.

• Availability for travel 40% of the time.

Good Reasons to Join

At Kuehne+Nagel we strive daily to inspire, empower, and deliver not only to our customers, but also to our colleagues. We offer a dynamic global work environment with opportunities for excellent training programs and career mobility. The target salary range for this position is between $90,000.00 and $130,000.00. Base salary is part of a competitive total rewards package that includes health and welfare benefits, a 401k retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, and incentive compensation for eligible roles. Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, skills, job location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations. Kuehne+Nagel reviews pay ranges regularly to ensure competitive and fair pay based on industry market data. NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES Please note that Kuehne + Nagel does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Recruitment Fee Agreement, KN will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed agreement, KN explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Kuehne + Nagel.