An Account Manager manages client accounts for a company. Develops and maintains communication with company clients, promotes sales and services, and works to resolve problems Accounts may be for product sales, advertising or marketing services or financial services such as banking.
Account Manager - Core Roadtex United States, Jersey, Somerset Aug 06, 2026 Roadtex Transportation has become a leader in the nationwide LTL industry, specializing in transporting time and temperature-sensitive products. We handle refrigerated and LTL needs by leveraging no sailing schedules, our nationwide network of 32 strategically placed temperature-controlled facilities, our state-of-the-art tracking, and our specialized equipment and warehousing capabilities. In 2022, Roadtex was acquired by Echo Global Logistics. The acquisition brings a truckload brokerage and expanded transportation management solutions to Roadtex's customers while providing Echo with our national warehouse footprint and advanced temperature-controlled transportation solutions.
POSITION DESCRIPTION
The Account Manager, Temp Control is a logistics and supply chain professional responsible for delivering exceptional service to customers within Echo's temperaturecontrolled transportation segment. The ideal candidate has deep experience with refrigerated goods, LTL networks, and partial truckload operations, combined with strong analytical skills and proven customerfacing experience. This role owns the overall strategy, performance, and growth of assigned accounts. The Account Manager, Temp Control ensures maximum profitability, operational excellence, and client satisfaction while expanding Echo's share of business. Success requires strong relationship building, strategic thinking, and the ability to translate client needs into operational execution.
CLIENT RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Serve as the strategic lead for all client interactions, including ontime performance reviews, continuous improvement discussions, and business reviews.
Deliver professional PowerPoint presentations and confidently lead clientfacing meetings
Build strong partnerships by assessing complex business challenges, identifying root causes, and developing solutionfocused strategies that drive measurable improvement
Conduct market research and proactively communicate industry trends, including impacts to pricing, capacity, and operational planning
Identify opportunities for account growth and assess competitive risks within the client portfolio
INTERNAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Partner cross-departmentally with operations, billing, pricing, technology, and other functions to ensure alignment on client needs.
Assist with critical and/or out-of-scope pricing scenarios to maximize margin.
Create, manage, and analyze clientrequested reports
Identify opportunities to standardize reporting and streamline processes across multiple accounts
CORE ACCOUNT MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES
Serve as a strategic resource on our SMB client partners and the CSR teams that support them.
Identify client partners with growth potential and prioritize time to understand those client needs and growth potential.
Utilize reporting to identify account churn risk and outreach to understand client needs.
Ensure accounts demanding significant time investment are worthwhile based on current and potential profitability.
STRATEGIC ACCOUNT MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES
Partner and own the client relationship with 5-8 of our largest strategic partnership accounts
Schedule, Plan, and Lead Quarterly Business Reviews for each account assignment.
Visit each strategic partner twice annually in person.
Closely monitor KPIs related to service, profitability, and revenue.
Align with executive account sponsors on growth potential, risk, and overall performance of accounts.
GROWTH ACCOUNT MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES
Partner and own the client relationship with 25-50 of our largest growth potential partnership accounts
Driver expansion plan with account assignments to drive revenue and profitability through transportation, warehousing, and other Echo offerings.
Schedule, Plan, and Lead Annual Business Reviews for each account assignment.
Visit one top growth partner account monthly.
Closely monitor KPIs related to service, profitability, and revenue, with monthly check-ins on growth progress.
EXPERIENCE-QUALIFICATIONS
Minimum 5 years of like experience supporting and managing customer accounts within supply chain, logistics, and transportation
Degree preferred or like experience
Strong understanding of refrigerated transportation, LTL, and partial truckload operations
Experience with client pricing, billing processes, & general LTL business operations.
Proven track record of building strong partnerships with both external customers and internal teams
Highly analytical with strong problemsolving abilities
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to create compelling presentations and lead executivelevel conversations Work environment/physical demands summary This job operates in an office environment and uses a computer, telephone and other office equipment as needed to perform duties. The noise level in the work environment is typical of that of an office with an open seating floor plan. The employee may encounter frequent interruptions throughout the work day. The employee is regularly required to sit, talk, or hear. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected veteran. Benefits For more information about our benefit offerings, please visit our careers page at https://www.echo.com/company/careers.