About the Role
As the Carrier Sales Manager for Arrive Fresh, you will play a pivotal role in building our produce division from the ground up. We are seeking an entrepreneurial leader with a deep background in produce/perishable freight who thrives in both autonomous and cross-functional environments.
Responsibilities
- Amplify our carrier network and service effectiveness within the fresh produce sector.
- Develop carrier compliance programs.
- Manage claims.
- Conduct internal carrier sales training.
- Lead a team of carrier sales representatives.
- Ensure carriers experience best-in-class service.
Requirements
- 15+ years of supply chain experience, including 10+ years in produce & floral.
- Expertise in Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), Sanitary Transportation of Food (STF), and Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
- Bid management experience with both shippers (growers) and customers (retail, processor, foodservice & wholesale).
- Ability to adjust altitudes quickly, simultaneously creating strategy while ensuring smooth operational roll-out throughout the organization.
- High energy with strong work ethic and passion for continuous improvement.
- Experience in Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) creation including compliance program design and roll-out.
- Experience collaborating with tech teams on Transportation Management System (TMS) functionality to improve customer and carrier experience.
- Direct supervisory responsibilities over a team of Carrier Sales Representatives specializing in produce.
Skills
- Produce/perishable freight
- Entrepreneurial leadership
- Autonomous environments
- Cross-functional environments
- Carrier compliance programs
- Claims management
- Carrier sales training
- Team leadership
- Carrier service
- Bid management
- Strategy creation
- Operational roll-out
- Continuous improvement
- SOP creation
- Compliance program design
- TMS functionality
Location
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 15+ years supply chain experience
- 10+ years in produce & floral
Benefits
- Medical coverage
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Life coverage
- Disability coverage
- Supplemental coverage
- Matching 401(k) program
- Employee Resource Groups
- Office wide engagement activities
- Team events
- Happy hours
- Casual dress code
- Free onsite parking
- Fully stocked coffee bar
- Onsite gym
- Free counseling sessions through Employee Assistance Program
- Company paid holidays
- Paid vacation time
- Wellness days
- 100% paid parental leave
- Referral Program
- Relocation assistance
About the Company
- Arrive Logistics is a leading transportation and technology company in North America with plans to grow significantly year over year.
- Our success is a testament to our remarkable team and what we’re building together.
- We’re committed to providing employees with a meaningful work experience and have established an award-winning culture that supports personal and career development in a fun, casual, and collaborative environment.
- Arrive Fresh relentlessly delivers innovative, compliant, and precision-driven cold-chain solutions with world-class service.
- This helps our partners win in the most complex and perishable industries.
- When we say “award-winning culture,” we mean it.
- We’ve been recognized as a top workplace by Inc. Fast Company, Fortune, and earned Top Workplaces and Great Place to Work, to name a few.
- We intend on topping many more of those lists in the years to come, but we’re not in it for the trophies.
- We’re committed to culture because it keeps us connected to each other and invested in our shared success while having a blast along the way.
- Our employee-founded resource groups create communities within Arrive’s walls, including Women in Logistics, Emerging Professionals, Prisms, Black Logistics Group, Salute and Unidos.
Equal Opportunity
- To ensure a safe and transparent interview process, we want to note that Arrive Logistics adheres to strict recruitment practices.
- Candidates undergo an interview process, and Arrive Logistics does not provide unsolicited job offers.
- If you have concerns about receiving a fraudulent offer, please contact talentacquisition@arrivelogistics.com for verification.
