Commercial Representative - National Accounts
CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact.
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities May Include:
- Develop and maintain multi-tiered customer relationships within the assigned territory, ensuring customer loyalty and satisfaction through regular engagement, addressing customer needs at every lifecycle stage.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for customers, providing clear and proactive communication on account performance, inquiries, and feedback, while delivering value through strategic account management.
- Support business growth by promoting asset utilization and profitability initiatives, including customer onboarding, platform launches, and expansion into new lanes, enhancing the overall customer experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Commercial, Supply Chain, and Operations, to develop and implement customer-specific solutions that drive supply chain efficiencies and align with CHEP ’s strategic goals.
- Resolve customer issues at the operational level, working closely with Customer Service, Logistics, and field teams to proactively manage account health, ensure controls, and mitigate potential disruptions.
- Partner with Logistics and Operations teams to reduce service failures, identify cost-saving opportunities, and improve supply chain efficiencies to deliver value to customers.
- Lead asset productivity initiatives, focusing on reducing asset damage, improving asset reuse, and minimizing customer rejections, cancellations, and operational backlogs.
- Conduct on-site quality audits, pallet handling training, and other educational sessions to ensure customers are aligned with CHEP Pallet specifications and best practices, promoting optimal asset management.
- Where required, lead on-site quality audits of internal service centers to ensure best practices and drive continuous improvement in customer-facing quality processes.
- Advocate for a culture of safety by adhering to Zero Harm principles, ensuring full compliance with CHEP ’s safety protocols and procedures.
Position Purpose
The purpose of the role is to:
- Manage existing clients leading to increase in customer satisfaction and business growth
- Execute a local plan to protect existing customer revenue; develop existing customer potential in line with the commercial policy and increase customer satisfaction
** YOUR MISSION ** – WHAT WILL YOU DO? ** :
- Daily support of existing clients in relevant region to secure business continuity
- Development of existing relations with clients, verification of quality and high level of the service
- Volume growth within existing customers
- Maintain relationships at appropriate levels with customers - understand customer needs and priorities through regular dialog
- Negotiate commercial terms with customers
- Review regularly revenue and profit for customers versus target
- Review performance of customers versus KPIs for global Account control and progress with audits for Account portfolio
- Maintain continuity of business – participate in a smooth handover from sales, to establish relationships with new global Accounts and service levels
- Cooperation with other teams to