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Account Manager - LTL

Forward Air
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Remote
  • $65,000–$75,000 Per Year
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Job Description

The Account Manager - Less-Than-Truckload (LTL) is responsible for managing, retaining, and growing strategic customer relationships. They serve as the primary point of contact and trusted advisor for their assigned accounts and are responsible for driving customer satisfaction, retention, operational performance, and long-term revenue growth. They partner closely with customers and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities, resolve challenges, and ensure service excellence. The position requires a deep understanding of customer operations and supply chain strategies, and the ability to leverage data to identify growth opportunities, lead business reviews, resolve complex challenges, and deliver solutions that enhance customer value and profitability.

Compensation: $65,000-$75,000 annually 

 

Category Focus: Less-Than-Truckload (LTL)
•    Support a portfolio of LTL customers and serve as a trusted advisor to key customer stakeholders. 
•    Identify, pursue, and close new LTL shipping opportunities within assigned accounts and target markets.
•    Collaborate with operations teams to ensure successful execution, service performance, and issue resolution for customer shipments.
•    Analyze customer spend, shipping patterns, and market trends identify opportunities to increase freight volume, expand transportation lanes, and support account growth.

Responsibilities
•    Manage a portfolio of strategic customer accounts. 
•    Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned accounts, building and maintaining strong relationships with customer stakeholders across operational, commercial, and leadership levels. 
•    Understand customer supply chain strategies and align solutions to support those initiatives.
•    Position the Company as a preferred transportation provider within partner logistics networks.
•    Monitor and analyze account performance, revenue trends, customer satisfaction, and retention risks to identify opportunities and recommend actions. 
•    Identify organic growth opportunities, share-of-wallet expansion opportunities, and additional transportation solutions within existing accounts. 
•    Establish and maintain customer-specific performance metrics and fact-based reporting to identify root causes, lead corrective action planning, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
•    Create, prepare, and lead Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) and executive business reviews, presenting operational and financial performance, identifying opportunities for growth, and developing strategic action plans.
•    Act as a customer advocate within the organization, influencing internal stakeholders and aligning resources to support customer commitments and business objectives.
•    Drive account retention, expansion, and profitability by identifying growth opportunities, developing strategic account plans, and supporting contract renewals and commercial negotiations.
•    Maintain accurate account plans, customer activity, business opportunities, and pipeline visibility within Salesforce and other business systems.
•    Partner with Operations, Customer Service, Pricing, Commercial, and other internal teams to improve account performance, customer experience, and long-term retention.
•    Partner with Sales on growth opportunities, RFP responses, customer expansions, and win-back initiatives. 
•    Monitor market trends, customer needs, and competitive activity to identify growth opportunities. 
•    Support customer onboarding, implementation activities, and service launches. 
•    Manage customer escalations, service concerns, and operational challenges through effective cross-functional collaboration. 
•    Maintain CRM documentation, account activity, forecasting information, and customer records. 
•    All other duties as assigned to meet evolving business needs.

Qualifications
•    Education: Undergraduate degree in Business, Supply Chain, Logistics, or a related field from an accredited college or university required.
•    Experience: 3+ years’ experience in transportation, account management, or related customer-facing experience preferred.
•    Deep understanding of LTL transportation and freight operations, ground transportation terminal/hub/station environments, transportation services, or related logistics functions preferred.
•    Strong relationship management, analytical, communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
•    Demonstrated ability to identify revenue risks, growth opportunities, and customer retention strategies.
•    Ability to manage multiple priorities and build effective relationships across functions.
•    Demonstrated discretion and confidentiality in handling and protecting sensitive information.
•    Technical: Proficient with common office technologies, including Windows PCs, Microsoft O365 (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.), CRMs (Salesforce), and web conferencing (Teams, Zoom, Webex, etc.)
•    Environment: Remote; must be comfortable with travel for related meetings/events.
 

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Numbers & Facts

LocationAtlanta, GA (
Remote
)
IndustryTransport and Storage - Materials
Salary$65,000–$75,000 Per Year
Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
Year Founded1981
Websitehttps://www.forwardair.com/content/careers-0

About Company

Since 1990, Forward Air has been a leading provider of ground transportation and related logistics services to the North American air freight and expedited LTL market. We offer surface shipping on an accelerated “time-definite” basis, delivering cargo at a specific time, but under less time-sensitive situations – supplying you with a cost effective, reliable alternative to air transportation. We work with companies of all sizes to develop tangible advantages and build the best products to meet your specific needs. Forward Air presents to the wholesale transportation community (logistics companies, freight forwarders, integrated air cargo carriers, passenger/ cargo airlines, and non-traditional shippers), a single-source provider that can deliver more supply chain services and a superior menu of choices. Throughout the years we have added supplementary lines to our linehaul service, such as full truckload operations (Truckload Services), final-mile coverage (Complete® Cartage), and an Airline Logistics program, and we will continue to expand our services to meet the changing needs and growth of our customer base.

Forward Air is structured to optimize both savings and service to our customers. Direct partnerships with owner-operators and other surface transportation providers, enable us to remain cost-competitive. The Forward Air network is designed with over 90 facilities located at or near major U.S. and Canadian airports, 12 regional sort centers and over 300 beyond points (secondary airports provided through our Complete Cartage service), creating one of the most comprehensive linehaul networks in the industry.

The foundation product for Forward Air is our expedited linehaul service, offering consistent and reliable transit and on-time, damage-free deliveries. By locating terminals on or near airports and maintaining a scheduled transportation network, we are able to arrange for convenient and consistent service with broad geographic coverage. Shipments of varying sizes (TL/LTL) are received at our terminals and transported by contracted service providers either (1) on a direct truck to the destination terminal, (2) through our Columbus, Ohio central sorting hub, or (3) through one of our 12 regional hubs, where they are unloaded, sorted, and reloaded in rapid fashion. After reloading the shipments, our contracted service providers deliver them to the destination city for early morning recovery. Through our Forward Air Complete® cartage service, customers also can have shipments picked up from the shipper, delivered to the final consignee, or transferred at the airport, simplifying the freight management processes. These options allow us to maximize handling efficiency of each shipment while minimizing freight loss and damage, improving transit times over traditional ground transportation.

Skills

  • Analysis Skillsunmatched
  • Business Solutionsunmatched
  • Cargo/Freightunmatched
  • Competitive Researchunmatched
  • Continuous Improvementunmatched
  • Corrective Actionunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Customer Escalationsunmatched
  • Customer Experienceunmatched
  • Customer Relationsunmatched
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systemsunmatched
  • Customer Retention/Renewalunmatched
  • Customer Satisfactionunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
  • Documentationunmatched
  • Expense Analysisunmatched
  • Financial Analysisunmatched
  • Financial Trend Analysisunmatched
  • Forecastingunmatched
  • Information/Data Security (InfoSec)unmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Less Than Truckload (LTL)unmatched
  • Logisticsunmatched
  • Market Trackingunmatched
  • Market Trend Analysisunmatched
  • Microsoft Excelunmatched
  • Microsoft Outlookunmatched
  • Microsoft PowerPointunmatched
  • Microsoft Product Familyunmatched
  • Microsoft Windows Operating Systemunmatched
  • Microsoft Wordunmatched
  • Multitaskingunmatched
  • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
  • Onboardingunmatched
  • Operational Auditunmatched
  • Partner Salesunmatched
  • Performance Managementunmatched
  • Performance Metricsunmatched
  • Pricingunmatched
  • Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Product/Service Launchunmatched
  • Profit & Lossunmatched
  • Relationship Managementunmatched
  • Request for Proposals (RFP)unmatched
  • Retention Programsunmatched
  • Revenue Growthunmatched
  • Risk Analysisunmatched
  • Root Cause Analysisunmatched
  • Sales Managementunmatched
  • Salesforce.comunmatched
  • Strategic Accountsunmatched
  • Strategic Planningunmatched
  • Supply Chainunmatched
  • Supply Chain Operationsunmatched
  • Target Marketingunmatched
  • Trend Analysisunmatched
  • Web Conferencingunmatched
  • WebExunmatched
  • Win-Back Initiativesunmatched

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