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    Job Description

    Job Description

    About the role:

    As a new Sales Manager for TQL, you will be leading a mid-to-large team of highly motivated logistics sales representatives, responsible for driving revenue and providing unmatched service to our customers. This is a highly competitive, transactional sales industry, that requires a 24/7 mentality, quick decision making, and incredible customer service to be successful. Historically we promote managers internally, but our rapid growth and expansion has created an opportunity for a highly driven sales leader to join TQL.


    What’s in it for you:

    • Aggressive compensation package with base, bonus, and long-term incentives
    • Paid relocation to any TQL office
    • Hyper-growth company with upward and internal mobility
    • Comprehensive benefits package
    • Health, dental and vision coverage
    • 401(k) with company match
    • Perks including employee discounts, financial wellness planning and more
    • Up to $5,000/year tuition reimbursement
    • Employee referral bonuses
    • Certified Great Place to Work with 900+ lifetime workplace award wins


    What you’ll be doing:

    • Driving revenue through coaching and developing new and existing sales reps
    • Interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and training entry-level sales reps
    • Assisting sales reps with account strategies to increase revenue
    • Holding the team accountable for daily activity and results
    • Ensuring employees maintain the highest level of integrity
    • Coordinating the allocation of support staff to accounts with high volumes of business
    • Occasional travel to meet with prospects and customers
    • Monitoring sales reports, acting as needed, and communicating trends and market conditions to senior leadership
    • Working with the Learning and Development department to help maintain and continuously enhance sales training programs


    What you need:

    • Bachelor’s degree preferred
    • 3+ years of sales management experience; preferably leading a team of 10+
    • Strong negotiation and presentation skills
    • Transportation or business services industry experience is preferred
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
    • Demonstrated ability to coach, lead and motivate others
    • Ability to be on call 24/7/365
    • Open to relocation throughout your career if needed
    • Capable of providing strong professional references – customer, superior, peer and direct report


    Where you'll be: 26000 Bass Pro Dr., Suite 214, Spanish Fort, AL 36527


    Employment visa sponsorship is unavailable for this position. Applicants requiring employment visa sponsorship now or in the future (e.g., F-1 STEM OPT, H-1B, TN, J1 etc.) will not be considered.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMundelein, IL
    IndustryTravel, Transportation and Tourism
    Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
    Year Founded1997
    Websitehttp://www.tql.com/

    About Company

    Look around. Virtually everything you use, wear, and eat has made its way to you thanks to the transportation industry - and specifically, truckload transportation. TQL provides the expertise, strategy, and solutions to get raw materials and finished products where they need to be 24/7/365.

    We are a nationally recognized, proven leader in transportation logistics. We connect consumer product and industrial goods shippers with truck operators who transport their freight to market destinations across North America. Our 2,000-member workforce identifies the right trucks for particular freight loads, negotiates rates, and ensures on-time delivery. Our insistence on honest, straightforward communications minimizes missed shipments, delays, and product shortages on store shelves.

    Our Clients
    In 2011, we worked with more than 7,000 customers and 50,000 carriers across North America to move more than 500,000 loads. We moved approximately 3,500 different types of commodities including fresh fruits and vegetables, packaged foods and beverages, meat and poultry, machinery and equipment, and much more. We are recognized experts in moving time-sensitive products, temperature controlled shipments, and cross-border moves.

    Skills

    • Business Servicesunmatched
    • Coachingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
    • Financial Planningunmatched
    • Leadershipunmatched
    • Logisticsunmatched
    • Market Trend Analysisunmatched
    • Negotiation Skillsunmatched
    • On Callunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Revenue Growthunmatched
    • Revenue/Sales Reportingunmatched
    • Salesunmatched
    • Sales Managementunmatched
    • Sales Strategyunmatched
    • Team Lead/Managerunmatched
    • Training Programunmatched
    • Willing to Travelunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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