Location: Hybrid, 2-3 days per week in Chicago
Salary:
$60,000 to $70,000trg is partnered with a fast-scaling SaaS startup modernising how food and consumer goods brands buy their ingredients, tackling a $1 trillion+ market inefficiency built on outdated, manual supply chains. Their AI-powered platform brings automated ordering, predictive forecasting, supplier matching and embedded credit to SMB brands. This is a hybrid role with a mix of account management and operational improvement, supported by AI automation. You'll own a portfolio of accounts end-to-end, taking ownership of their onboarding, supplier negotiations, logistics, compliance and reporting on operational metrics.
Key Responsibilities:
Anticipating issues before they land in your inbox and acting as first point of contact for orders, deliveries, payments and platform queries Speaking directly with suppliers to finalise orders, pricing and terms, and manage customer credit limits and clearance decisions Prompt, configure and maintain the AI agents running your accounts' routine workflows, knowing when to let the agent run versus step in yourself Continuously identify the next piece of your own workload worth automating, and build it Monitor operational metrics and drive process improvements with product and tech
Requirements:
1–3 years managing multiple stakeholders and processes at once, in a Customer Success, Ops, Account Management, Purchasing, or Logistics role Hands-on comfort with AI tools like Claude or ChatGPT, ideally with a workflow, prompt or automation you've built to make your own job easier Comfort with real commercial conversations around negotiating price and holding a credit line, not just administering someone else's decisionsA detail-obsessed, ownership-driven mindset Comfort operating in ambiguity, bringing structure where others see chaos
