About the Role
As a Strategic Account Manager with TGE Freight, you will be responsible for leading key strategic accounts. Your primary goal will be to maximise TGE Freight's profile, increase share of wallet, and strengthen customer loyalty to optimise retention and expansion. You will develop, expand, and solidify long-term relationships with customers, ensuring key business retention and growth across the customer footprint and the TGE Freight network. This role requires active collaboration and solution development to deliver exceptional value and outcomes for our government clients.
Responsibilities
- Understand customer strategies, future vision, and needs to position TGE Freight solutions for growth and satisfaction
- Engage with TGE Executives and customer Boards on strategic updates and commercial decision-making
- Negotiate contracts, annual rate reviews, and terms with executive clients, both nationally and globally
- Identify cross-sell and upsell opportunities to grow customer accounts
- Lead internal and external stakeholders through complex negotiations, onboarding, and solution development
- Collaborate with Commercial Solutions, Pricing, Operations, and other teams to deliver innovative customer solutions
- Proactively manage contract health, renewals, and financial outcomes
- Prepare detailed portfolio plans with operational and financial reporting for management review
- Regularly engage with customers to oversee satisfaction, volumes, and continuous improvement
- Lead customer presentations and planning sessions using advanced sales tools and templates
- Maintain accurate CRM records and sales forecasts, progressing opportunities within target timeframes
- Embed sales methodology and best practices across systems and reports
Requirements
- Commercially savvy professional with exceptional communication skills, able to influence at the executive level
- Strong experience managing complex, high-value accounts
- Desired government experience and a keen understanding of government environments
- Ability to drive revenue growth, uncover opportunities, and deliver exceptional client outcomes
- Advanced proficiency with CRM systems and sales tools
- Minimum 5 years in face-to-face sales or account management
- Experience working with large enterprise clients (highly regarded)
- Membership in a relevant professional association (desirable)
Skills
- Sales
- Account Management
- Negotiation
- Client Relationship Management
- CRM Systems
- Sales Forecasting
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Full-time
- Flexible work
- Work from home
Experience Level
- Minimum 5 years in face-to-face sales or account management
- Experience working with large enterprise clients (highly regarded)
Education Level
- Degree-qualified in Business, Logistics, Sales, or Marketing (preferred)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary above industry standards
Benefits
- Upskilling, training, mentoring and more to support your career development journey
- Fun and practical employee perks and discounts
- Flexible work, including work from home
- Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents & carers
- Peer recognition awards acknowledge when you go above and beyond
About the Company
- Team Global Express (TGE) is an Australian-owned transport and logistics business delivering to Australia and New Zealand.
- We’re not only transforming our operations but striving towards changing the logistics industry and becoming an Environmental, Social, and Governance leader by 2030.
- We care about our customers, our people, and our planet.
- We are always innovating and improving our services.
- We are driven by passion and purpose, and we never stop.
- With an unrivalled and expansive network, Team Global Express builds unique, innovative, and tailored transport and logistics solutions to connect people, communities, and businesses across Australia and New Zealand.
- Backed by Allegro Funds, Australia’s most awarded and largest transformation and turnaround private equity firm, we’re looking to the future and working towards new and exciting ways to put our customers’ businesses at the heart of ours.
Equal Opportunity
- We celebrate difference. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace that gives everyone the chance to contribute to a bigger and brighter future with us.
- As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we welcome and invite applicants of all ages, cultural backgrounds, genders, sexual orientations, people living with disabilities, neurodiverse individuals and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples to apply.
- Team Global Express acknowledges the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as First Peoples of Australia and the Māori, as tangata whenua and Treaty of Waitangi partners in Aotearoa New Zealand.
