Account Manager
Springdale, AR (USA)
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Post Date: 10/20/09 Company: BNSF Logistics
Compensation: not given Contact: Charlie Polach
Job Type: Full Time Phone:
Education: 2 year degree Fax:
Experience: 6 months - 2 years Mailing Address:
Travel: Negligible
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Job Description:
To provide a daily contact to our customers. Their job is to build a realtionship with the customer
through service, communication and product knowlwedge.

1. Solicit current customers for freight. This duty is performed daily.

2. Solicit new customers for freight; cold calls. This duty is performed daily.

3. Communicate with TC group on load coverage, service, available capacity and margin. This duty is
performed daily.

4. Provide new solutions to their customers via mode change or specialized services. This duty is
performed irregularly.

5. Assist in Accounts Receivable collections for their customers. This duty is performed weekly.

6. Provide service updates to their customers based on customers requests. This duty is performed
monthly.

7. Assist in pricing based on customer knowledge. This duty is performed irregularly.

8. Perform any other related duties as required or assigned.


Job Requirements:
QUALIFICATIONS
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty mentioned
satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability
required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Knowledge of a specialized field (however acquired), such as basic accounting, computer, etc.
Equivalent of four years in high school, plus night, trade extension, or correspondence school
specialized training, equal to two years of college, plus 12 to 18 months related experience and/or
training, and 12 to 18 months related management experience, or equivalent combination of education
and experience.

RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUNDS, PROPERTY and EQUIPMENT
None.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
None.

COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Ability to read, analyze, and understand general business/company related articles and professional
journals; Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common
fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to prepare and interpret bar
graphs.

CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS
Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of known variables in situations where only
limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram formats.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED
Under direction where a definite objective is set up and the employee plans and arranges own work,
referring only unusual cases to supervisor.

PLANNING
Limited responsibility with regard to general assignments in planning time, method, manner, and/or
sequence of performance of own work operations.

DECISION MAKING
Performs work operations which permit frequent opportunity for decision-making of minor importance
and also frequent opportunity for decision-making of major importance, either of which would affect the
work operations of small organizational component and the organization's clientele.

MENTAL DEMAND
Close mental demand. Operations requiring close and continuous attention for control of operations.
Operations requiring intermittent direct thinking to determine or select the most applicable way of
handling situations regarding the organization's administration and operations; also to determine or
select material and equipment where highly variable sequences are involved.

ANALYTICAL ABILITY / PROBLEM SOLVING
Directed. Supervisory and/or professional skills using structured practices or policies and directed as to execution and review. Interpolation of learned things in moderately varied situations where reasoning
and decision-making are essential.

USE OF MACHINES, EQUIPMENT AND/OR COMPUTERS
Regular use of complex machines and equipment (desktop/laptop computer and software, road and
production machines and equipment, etc.)

ACCURACY
Probable errors of internal and external scope would have a moderate effect on the operational efficiency
of the organizational component concerned. Errors might possibly go undetected for a considerable
period of time, thereby creating an inaccurate picture of an existing situation. Could cause further errors,losses, or embarrassment to the organization. The possibility for error is always present due to
requirements of the job.

PUBLIC CONTACT
Regular contacts with patrons where the contacts are initiated by the employee. Involves both furnishing
and obtaining information and, also, attempting to influence the decisions of those persons contacted.
Contacts of considerable importance and of such nature, that failure to exercise proper judgment may
result in important tangible or intangible losses to the organization.

EMPLOYEE CONTACT
Contacts with other departments or offices and also frequently with individuals in middle level
positions; consulting on problems which necessitate judgment and tact in presentation to obtain
cooperation or approval of action to be taken. Also, important contacts with associates as required in
advanced supervisory jobs.

REQUIRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
Not indicated.

PREFERRED CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS
College Degree
SOFTWARE SKILLS REQUIRED
Intermediate: Contact Management, Spreadsheet, Word Processing/Typing
Basic: 10-Key, Accounting, Database, Human Resources Systems, Presentation/PowerPoint

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Not indicated.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
The following physical activities described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may
be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions and expectations.
While performing the functions of this job, the employee is continuously required to use hands to finger,handle, or feel, talk or hear; regularly required to sit; occasionally required to stand, walk. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
The following work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee
encounters while performing essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made
to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

 
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