Freight Broker Position Available In Wilkes, North Carolina

Freight Broker Central Logistics,Inc Wilkesboro, NC 28697 • Hybrid work Job description The Freight Broker’s In-House operations and brokerage at Central Logistics Inc, 100% Employee Owned Company. The position includes building carrier relationships, finding daily capacity through technology such as carrier portals, personal relationships, and load boards, pricing shipments competitively in the marketplace to secure customer orders, and monitoring loads from inception until delivery. It also includes establishing and maintaining professional relationships with assigned clients on behalf of the company by taking personal and complete responsibility and ownership for each client contact. The employee must have competence in the transportation industry, marketplace, and general logistics operations. The position requires excellent understanding of the transportation/trucking industry along with a high level of technology skills as well as tact, sensitivity, professionalism and enthusiasm to work in a fast pace work environment.

Essential Job Functions:

Schedule and execute an array of transportation services in accordance with legal and customer requirements including cargo characteristics, service options, available least cost rates, transit time, and loading and offloading requirements Provide exceptional client service and interaction including issue resolution, communication, intermediary functions, logistics representation, and shipment responsibility management Support assigned accounts not only during regular business hours but as their needs develop and require attention Reliably track and expedite progress of specialized shipments and perform additional activities required to meet customers’ deadlines and expectations Build relationships with customers to ensure continued operational improvements Pre-screen contract carriers from incoming applicant database for contract eligibility based upon DOT standards and company policy Continuously develop contract carrier base operation to meet productivity demands Find qualified carriers and pursue costs for best routing and pricing for customer quotes Assist team members with the daily management of shared operational inboxes Track all managed and booked shipments, alerting clients of all transit updates Manage incoming client telephone calls professionally, efficiently and with excellent professional skills within various call queues as well as client direct Process customer orders accurately and timely In addition to the essential functions listed above, the employee is expected to exercise honesty, integrity and respect with all clients and co-workers, maintain a professional appearance and demeanor, demonstrate a positive attitude, communicate effectively with co-workers and clients, work with accuracy, efficiency, and attention to detail, respect the work environment and keep it as neat and clean as possible, and exercise initiative to learn new skills and tasks and to help co-workers when possible. The employee is also expected to perform such other duties and functions as required from time to time.

Qualifications:

Experience in transportation, 3PL brokerage, or logistics highly preferred Excellent written and oral command of the English language Excellent interpersonal skills Strong attention to detail High level of ability to multi-task and juggle several projects Attentive in preventing errors and solving complex problems High level of computer literacy Organization and time management skills Ability to quickly change priorities Excellent people skills Positive and upbeat attitude

Job Type:

Full-time Salary:

$42,672.00 – $95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Flexible schedule Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off Retirement plan

Schedule:

8 hour shift Evening shift Monday to Friday On call Weekend availability Supplemental pay types: Commission pay Ability to commute/relocate: Wilkesboro, NC 28697: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

Logistics:

1 year (Required)

Work Location:

One location View public job page

Job Type:

Full-time Pay:

$41,600.00 – $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k) 401(k) matching Health insurance Life insurance Paid time off

Compensation Package:

Commission pay Profit sharing Uncapped commission

Schedule:

8 hour shift Monday to Friday Weekends as needed Ability to

Commute:

Wilkesboro, NC 28697 (Preferred)

Work Location:

Hybrid remote in Wilkesboro, NC 28697