Strategic Account Manager - Healthcare
Overview
As Strategic Account Manager in healthcare logistics, you will manage and grow a portfolio of multinational healthcare accounts. You’ll align with cross-functional teams to protect revenue and shape long-term account strategy across Air & Ocean Freight, including temperature-controlled and value-added services. You’ll engage senior stakeholders and deliver improvements in supply chain performance and service delivery. This high-visibility role offers exposure to senior leadership and the opportunity to impact global healthcare logistics at scale.
Pay / Benefits
- competitive salary
- bonus
- comprehensive benefits package
- strong career progression opportunities
- international exposure
- collaborative culture
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute strategic account plans for major healthcare and life sciences customers
- Build senior-level relationships across procurement, supply chain, logistics, operations, and executive stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to expand Air Freight, Ocean Freight, temperature-controlled, and value-added logistics solutions
- Drive organic revenue growth and improve account profitability
- Lead regular business reviews and present performance metrics, market insights, and growth opportunities
- Coordinate internal stakeholders to deliver exceptional service and customer experience
- Act as the primary escalation point for strategic customer issues
- Support contract renewals, pricing discussions, and commercial negotiations
- Monitor market trends, industry developments, and competitor activity within healthcare logistics
- Collaborate with regional and global teams to ensure alignment on international customer strategies
Key requirements
- Proven experience managing strategic or global accounts within freight forwarding, logistics, or supply chain
- Strong understanding of Air & Ocean Freight solutions
- Experience working with healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, or medical device customers is highly desirable
- Demonstrated ability to manage complex multinational customer relationships
- Commercially focused with a track record of revenue growth and account development
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Ability to engage confidently with senior leadership and C-suite decision-makers
- Excellent presentation, negotiation, and communication skills
- Fluent English required; additional European languages are advantageous
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing and negotiation
- Presentations and communication
- Air Freight
- Ocean Freight
- temperature-controlled logistics
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