Carrier Sales Representative / Freight Broker (BPR)
Carrier Sales Representative / Freight Broker (BPR)
Posted 17 days ago
SENIORITY
Senior
About the role
- Source and secure qualified carrier capacity for customer shipments
- Negotiate carrier rates while balancing cost, service, and shipment requirements
- Build and maintain strong relationships with dependable motor carriers
- Match equipment, geography, commodity, timing, and service requirements with the right carrier
- Work with dry van, flatbed, partial, LTL, and specialized freight
- Confirm pickup, delivery, appointment, tracking, equipment, and special requirements with carriers
- Evaluate carriers using Pinnacle's carrier qualification and risk-management standards
- Identify potential fraud, double-brokering, cargo-theft, insurance, authority, or service concerns before tendering freight
- Communicate carrier availability, market conditions, rate changes, and service risks to the POD
- Accurately document carrier activity and shipment information in Pinnacle's transportation-management system
- Work collaboratively from a shared freight queue and help balance workload across the team
- Assist teammates and other PODs when capacity or workload requires it
- Escalate problems early rather than allowing them to become service failures
- Develop new carrier relationships in key Pinnacle markets
- Help improve carrier performance, service reliability, and profitability What Success Looks Like:
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Comfortable spending significant time communicating with carriers by phone, email, and transportation systems
- Confidence negotiating transportation rates
- Ability to make sound decisions quickly in a fast-moving environment
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple shipments and priorities simultaneously
- Strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to remain composed when plans change or problems occur
- Willingness to document work accurately in the TMS/CRM
- Team-first attitude and willingness to share information and workload
- Ability to take ownership while knowing when to escalate an issue
- Basic mathematical skills and comfort working with rates, margins, dimensions, weights, and shipment details Preferred Qualifications: Previous freight brokerage, carrier sales, dispatch, transportation, logistics, or supply-chain experience
- Experience negotiating with motor carriers
- Knowledge of dry van, flatbed, partial, LTL, or specialized transportation
- Familiarity with transportation-management systems and load boards
- Understanding of DOT/FMCSA carrier information and freight-fraud risks
- Experience developing carrier relationships
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