District Sales Executive

Expeditors is a global logistics company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. As a Fortune 500 (408) company, we employ over 16,500 trained professionals in a worldwide network of over 320 locations across six continents. Expeditors is focused on the increasingly sophisticated needs of international trade through customized solutions and seamless, integrated information systems. Our services include air and ocean freight consolidation and forwarding, vendor consolidation, customs clearance, cargo insurance, distribution and other value-added logistics services.

We pride ourselves on being a solutions-based organization that takes the time to understand each customer's individual business needs. As a non-asset based organization, we have considerable flexibility when managing customers'​ supply chains. Our relationships with local suppliers and global air and ocean partners provides our customers with the best routing and pricing options. Expeditors'​ comprehensive, flexible spectrum of services is supported by leading-edge information technology providing the highest level of end to end visibility.

To maintain consistent quality and customer service across the globe, Expeditors has regional headquarters located in London, Dubai, Shanghai and Singapore.

At Expeditors, our industry professionals, award winning processes and globally unified systems ensure that we always live up to our promise, "You'd be surprised how far we'll go for you".

• Manage an assigned territory and demonstrate extensive knowledge of potential customers and competitors in this area.
• Timely data entry in our Customer Relationship Management tool Orchestrate customer / branch relationships and collaborate with regional Product, Service, Geo, and Knowledge Management resources.
• Participate in the creation of value-added solutions for customer's logistics needs, including supporting diagrams and cost-benefit calculations.
• Support the transition of new accounts through customer introductions, information transfer, and securing any necessary customer paperwork.. When needed, support AR(accounts receivable) collection.
• Attend training & development sessions to continue developing selling skills and updating Expeditors Product and Service knowledge.
• Involvement in local trade groups, as directed by the District Sales Manager.
• Take on additional assignments as required, supporting company needs.

• The ability to meet with customers off-site on a regular basis
• Oral and written proficiency in the English language
• Strong problem solving, organizational, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work productively both individually and in a team environment
• Sense of urgency for goal achievement
• Self-motivated with ability to work in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment
• Comfortable with regular data entry on a laptop computer
• Strong rapport and relationship-building focused
• Empowered to make quick decisions in response to changing conditions
• Extroverted, confident, enthusiastic and persuasive
• Influence others to action
• Timeliness and accountability for results
• Educated to Bachelor degree or above.
• With 2 years relevant experience in shipping or freight forwarding industry is preferable, but not a must.
• Good command of English and Mandarin.
• Good at Excel, PowerPoint and Word.

• Effective interpersonal skills, including proven abilities to listen, comprehend, effectively communicate clearly and concisely to obtain positive results.

• Pro-active, strong organizational skills.

• Good Microsoft Office skills

• Fluent in operational English, both oral and written