Strategic New Business Manager Logistics Service Providers
Job Summary
Strategic Prospecting & Account Development
- Own a defined portfolio of strategic logistics service provider focus accounts selected against clear fit criteria.
- Build detailed account plans.
- Map and multi-thread senior stakeholders across logistics procurement sustainability and management.
- Create tailored entry strategies value hypotheses and outreach plans for each focus account.
- Use your active logistics service provider network existing relationships events referrals and direct outreach to open doors and create access to the right decision makers.
Once an opportunity is created youll own the commercial process end to end and drive it toward a clear decision. Youll work closely with Commercial Strategy to translate customer transport data into a strong operational and commercial case for electrification.
- Lead discovery and needs assessment with operational and senior commercial stakeholders.
- Shape the electrification roadmap and feasibility case together with Commercial Strategy.
- Coordinate customer data collection and translate analysis into a compelling executive-level business case.
- Qualify opportunities rigorously against lane volume network timing and decision-making criteria.
- Develop proposals and commercial structures that create meaningful value for both the customer and JUNA.
- Own commercial negotiations and navigate stakeholder approval processes.
- Maintain momentum through clear next steps stakeholder alignment and disciplined pipeline management.
- Close strategic deals and ensure a structured handover into Customer Success and post-sale delivery.
- Strategic opportunities created within the defined focus-account portfolio.
- Qualified pipeline value and qualification rate.
- Strategic deals won and contracted deployment potential.
In the beginning (0-6 months):
- Ramp Up Quickly:Build a deep understanding of JUNAs product commercial model qualification criteria and priority use cases across logistics service provider networks.
- Build Account Plans: Take ownership of your first focus accounts and create clear strategies for how to access qualify and convert them.
- Activate Your Network: Re-engage your existing logistics service provider relationships and establish access to senior decision makers across your target accounts.
- Create Opportunities: Turn account insight into concrete discovery conversations data exchanges and qualified sales opportunities.
- Own the Full Cycle: Independently run complex strategic opportunities from account strategy through commercial close.
- Convert Focus Accounts: Build a track record of converting selected high-value accounts into structural JUNA partnerships.
- Become the LSP Expert:Develop a strong point of view on logistics service provider business models transport network dynamics buying processes electrification needs and the decision makers required to scale electric truck deployments.
- Build a Repeatable Playbook: Turn successful account strategies into a scalable approach that can be reused across similar customers in the industry.
- Several years of experience in strategic new business enterprise sales key account development or a comparable commercial role within or closely serving logistics service providers.
- A proven track record of creating and closing complex high-value deals with large enterprise customers.
- Deep understanding of the logistics service provider market including transport networks carrier models procurement processes customer relationships and the operational factors that determine where electric trucks can be deployed successfully.
- A strong existing network within the logistics service provider sector with active relationships and access to senior stakeholders and decision makers.
- Experience building structured account plans and navigating multi-stakeholder buying processes over longer sales cycles.
- Confidence engaging senior stakeholders and translating operational complexity into a clear commercial value proposition.
- Strong commercial and analytical skills including comfort with business cases return-on-investment logic and negotiations.
- Professional fluency in English and German required.
- Strategic hunter: You enjoy opening complex accounts and are persistent enough to find a way in when the obvious route does not work.
- Quality focused: You would rather deeply understand and convert ten high-potential accounts than superficially touch one hundred.
- Executive-ready: You communicate credibly with senior stakeholders and can adapt your message to operational commercial and management audiences.
- Commercially sharp: You understand what makes a deal valuable how to create urgency and when to walk away from poor-fit opportunities.
- Structured: You turn complex account landscapes into clear stakeholder maps hypotheses actions and next steps.
- Ownership driven:You take responsibility for the full journey from target account to signed deal.
- Collaborative:You bring Sales Development Commercial Strategy and other internal teams together around the account without losing accountability.
- Based in Berlin.
- Experience with electric trucks fleet electrification alternative drivetrains or transport decarbonization.
- Experience selling transformation projects or solutions with a strong operational and financial business case.
- Existing relationships with major logistics service providers beyond your immediate customer base or with relevant industry associations.
Our Company Values
- Driven by impact not activity
- Collaboration drives the core
- Dont just do it own it
- We think outside the truck
- The customer in the drivers seat
Required Experience:
Manager
About Company
JUNA is on a mission to #electrifyroadfreight. Founded in 2023, we’ve had a strong start and have already deployed a significant fleet of heavy-duty electric trucks in Europe. Our innovative business model makes it easy and low-risk for carriers to shift to electric logistics by offer ... View more