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Entry-Level Account Executive

BBI Logistics
Columbus, OH Full Time
POSTED ON 12/26/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/25/2026

BBI is looking for competitive, confident, and passionate individuals to join our growing team. As an Account Executive, you will focus on the fast-paced brokerage aspect of our business. You will create and manage your individual book of business through constant communication with carriers and customers.


What you’ll be doing.

  • Lead Generation: Creatively self-generate leads and qualify prospects
  • Cold Call: Execute 80 cold calls per day to build relationships with prospects and existing customers
  • Negotiate: Stay up to date on industry trends to provide and negotiate freight costs to customers and carriers
  • Account Management: Manage freight movement and problem solve in real time by utilizing our proprietary TMS software
  • High Sense of Urgency: Proactively communicate when resolving issues and provide updates to customers and carriers


What you’ll bring to the table.

  • Confidence and strong self-assuredness to succeed in cold-calling customers and making a sale
  • Mental endurance. An Account Executive will be on the phone for long hours, hear a lot of rejection, and will have to continue to push through
  • Willing to go the extra mile to work after normal business hours and weekends
  • Entrepreneurial and competitive spirit (if you’re not first, you’re last)
  • Strong ability to sell and negotiate with confidence and a winning attitude
  • Maintain composure in high-stress scenarios
  • Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to recognize and prioritize profitable opportunities


What you can earn.

  • Average year 2-3 earnings: $107K
  • Don't want to be average? Ask your recruiter what top performers earn!
  • Base salary with an uncapped commission structure


What we bring to the table.

  • Don’t worry about paying for parking – we’ve got you covered
  • Pack your bags! It’s not too late to qualify for our annual sales trip
  • We care about your well-being, so we contribute to the cost of your health benefits
  • Invest in your future with our 401K match and profit sharing
  • Sales development and career path – 100% of sales leadership promoted from within
  • Paid training and mentorship program


Trophy’s In Our Case.

  • Nationally awarded as Selling Power’s 50 Best Companies to Sell for in 2022, 2023; Selling Power’s 60 Best Companies to Sell for in 2024, 2025
  • Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America 2023 & 2024
  • Great Place to Work Certified
  • #1 Fastest Growing Privately Held Company in Central Ohio
  • Largest Central Ohio Privately Held Company
  • Named a Best Place to Work 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024
  • 2024 Building Columbus Awards: Best New Office Project


Who we are.

BBI Logistics offers transportation solutions including but not limited to drayage, truckload, intermodal, LTL, expedited, purchase order consolidation, route optimization, cold storage, expedited delivery, and natural disaster response. As a rapidly growing company, BBI is quickly becoming a premier transportation provider nationwide.


#betterwithbbi


BBI Logistics is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status.

Salary : $107,000

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