Are you interested in the possibility of a career in the fast-paced world of third-party logistics but want to know more first? Then Axle Logistics has the perfect solution! This unique, fast-paced, and dynamic role is equal parts demanding as it is rewarding so the best way to explain it, is to simply show you!

Set up some time to come into the Axle Logistics headquarters located near downtown Knoxville, TN for an opportunity to shadow one of our Logistics Consultants! They will take you through a day in the life and answer any and all questions you may have!

Axle believes that before you start the process of choosing your next career, you should be able to understand the role, company culture, and organizational vision fully so that you can make the best decision for YOU!

We look forward to the opportunity of showing you why Axle Logistics is one of the Inc.5000 fasting growing companies in the country!

The Risk Analyst assists in Axle’s Risk Management Department to audit coverage issues, track and manage policy renewals, process and investigate reported incidents, cargo claims and/or information that is required prior to a claim being submitted to the carrier or responsive insurer. The Risk Analyst works closely with the Legal Department, Claims Department, Risk Management, the Accounting team, and communicates with carriers, insurance companies and customers.

Responsibilities:

• Assists Risk and Claim teams in the identification of exposures and recommends solutions.
• Develops and manages tracking tools for reported and self-administered claims.
• Assists Claims Coordinator in processing assigned incidents and claims from notice to filing to resolution efficiently, accurately, and within time standards. Coordinate with carrier safety departments for information related to reported incidents.  Coordinate shipment recovery efforts with carrier teams and customer contacts, while balancing Axle’s risk priorities.
• Communicates and builds strong relationships with insurance carriers, customers, and key vendors.
• Ensures the most appropriate and cost effective resolution of all claims is reached and that a high level of customer service is attained.
• Maintains a strong understanding of industry regulations for claims liability and Axle’s and carriers’ insurance policies.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience.
• Four or more years of experience in claims required.
• Demonstrated familiarity with and understanding of insurance coverage.
• Understanding of relevant laws and regulations as well as related legal terminology.
• Exceptional analytical skills with a desire to grow personally and professionally.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently, when necessary.

Axle Logistics is seeking a detail-oriented and organized individual to fill the role of Freight Bill Auditor. Joining the corporate headquarters Accounting & Finance division in Knoxville TN, this motivated candidate will be responsible for overseeing various tasks while also assisting in the overall efficiency of the department.

What does the position require?

• Responsible for freight bill auditing and retrieving paperwork.
• A/P Invoicing, BOL and POD processing, Claim processing, etc.
• Vetting Carriers and Carrier Development
• Assisting with developing systems & procedures for various processes (Employee Handbook/Training Manual, etc…)
• Paying carriers, Facilitating carrier advances and Express Payments
• Providing Support to other accounting personnel as needed
• Basic Telephone and email duties

What is Axle looking for?

• High School diploma required; Associates degree preferred
• General office experience
• Microsoft Office Products
• Some knowledge of standard established bookkeeping principles
• Ability to maintain clerical records and to compile reports from them
• Capacity to verify documents and forms for accuracy and completeness
• Skilled to understand and follow written and verbal instructions
• Ability to exercise tact and courtesy in frequent contact with customers

Axle Logistics is looking to hire a highly motivated full-time Logistics Consultant. Do you have an aptitude for sales and a desire to get into the essential supply chain industry? Are you looking for more than a job? Do you want to work in an energetic, addicting, inspiring, meaningful, rewarding, and fun environment for a growing Inc. 5000 organization where hard work truly pays off? If so, please read on!

This Logistics Consultant position earns a competitive base salary plus commission. We also offer generous benefits and perks, including medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid vacations, a free week of vacation for getting married or having a baby, life insurance, a company cell phone, free in-office beverages, a free lunch every Friday, a casual dress code, company-wide events, and massive opportunities for advancement. If this sounds like the right opportunity to leverage your customer service and sales skills to get started on a career in supply chain consultations, apply today!

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A LOGISTICS CONSULTANT

As a Logistics Consultant, you are involved in sales, customer service, and the management of your customer’s freight needs. You collaborate with carrier partners and shippers alike, overseeing the full lifecycle of every shipment in your given book of business. By providing first in class customer service, you develop long-term relationships with customers. You manage the movement of your clients’ goods, ensuring that they are picked up, transported safely, and delivered on time according to the clients’ expectations. You function as the liaison between clients, carriers, shippers, and receivers.

In order to maintain market competitive pricing, you conduct contract negotiations. You collaborate with team members on pricing strategies and problem-solving. To build a portfolio of clients, you perform a high volume of “cold-calling.” Staying up to date on market conditions and technology through internal and external training is an essential component to your success. You feel great about helping other companies find success through the management of their supply chain. And, seeing your efforts pay off in your paycheck gives you a great sense of accomplishment!

QUALIFICATIONS FOR A LOGISTICS CONSULTANT

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Strong professional communication skills
• Ability to travel to meet with potential and existing clients as needed
• Proven customer service skills
• Sales-driven and self-motivated
• Willingness to work well within a team

One year of prior sales experience is preferred but multiple factors will be taken into consideration. Operational experience within the 3PL/logistics field would be a plus!

Are you outgoing and ambitious?
Do you have a success-driven mindset?
Do you have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal? Can you effectively prioritize multiple tasks?
Do you thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment?
Are you a quick thinker?

If you answered yes, you might just be perfect for our Logistics Consultant position!

Axle Logistics of Knoxville, TN is looking to hire a highly motivated full-time Logistics Consultant. Do you have an aptitude for sales and a desire to get into the essential supply chain industry? Are you looking for more than a job? Do you want to work in an energetic, addicting, inspiring, meaningful, rewarding, and fun environment for a growing Inc. 5000 organization where hard work truly pays off? If so, please read on!

This Logistics Consultant position earns a competitive base salary plus uncapped commission. We also offer generous benefits and perks, including medical, dental, vision, a 401(k) plan, paid holidays, paid vacations, a free week of vacation for getting married or having a baby, life insurance, a company cell phone, free in-office beverages, a free lunch every Friday, new headquarters that includes an employee gym, a casual dress code, company-wide events, and massive opportunities for advancement. If this sounds like the right opportunity to leverage your customer service and sales skills to get started on a career in supply chain consultations, apply today!

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A LOGISTICS CONSULTANT

As a Logistics Consultant, you are involved in sales, customer service, and the management of your customer’s freight needs. You collaborate with carrier partners and shippers alike, overseeing the full lifecycle of every shipment in your given book of business. By providing first in class customer service, you develop long-term relationships with customers. You manage the movement of your clients’ goods, ensuring that they are picked up, transported safely, and delivered on time according to the clients’ expectations. You function as the liaison between clients, carriers, shippers, and receivers.

In order to maintain market competitive pricing, you conduct contract negotiations. You collaborate with team members on pricing strategies and problem-solving. To build a portfolio of clients, you perform a high volume of “cold-calling.” Staying up to date on market conditions and technology through internal and external training is an essential component to your success. You feel great about helping other companies find success through the management of their supply chain. And, seeing your efforts pay off in your paycheck gives you a great sense of accomplishment!

QUALIFICATIONS FOR A LOGISTICS CONSULTANT

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Strong professional communication skills
• Ability to travel to meet with potential and existing clients as needed
• Proven customer service skills
• Sales-driven and self-motivated
• Willingness to work well within a team

One year of prior sales experience is preferred but multiple factors will be taken into consideration. Operational experience within the 3PL/logistics field would be a plus!

Are you outgoing and ambitious?
Do you have a success-driven mindset?
Do you have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal? Can you effectively prioritize multiple tasks?
Do you thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment?
Are you a quick thinker?

If you answered yes, you might just be perfect for our Logistics Consultant position!

Job Description

What’s the opportunity?

Axle Logistics is seeking a task-oriented and organized individual to fill the role of Accounts Receivable Specialist. Joining the corporate headquarters Accounting & Finance division in Knoxville TN, this motivated candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day timely collection of outstanding receivables and other billing and receivables tasks as necessary.

What does the position require?

• Making customer collection calls and sending related correspondence in a fast-paced/goal-oriented environment
• Responsibility for monitoring and maintaining assigned customer accounts
• Resolving customer account discrepancies and short payments
• Accountability for reducing delinquency for assigned accounts
• Enlisting the efforts of salesforce or senior management when necessary to accelerate the collection process
• Performing other tasks as necessary to support the Accounts Receivable Department

What is Axle looking for?

• High School diploma required, Associates degree or higher preferred
• 1-3 years of high-volume corporate collections experience
• Commitment to excellent customer service
• Ability to exercise tact and courtesy in frequent contact with customers
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities
• Strong attention to detail
• Experience with Microsoft Office Products

Benefits:

Axle Logistics offers a robust benefits package including medical, dental and vision, paid vacation and holidays, life insurance, 401K with a company match, free lunch every week, onsite fitness center, and the opportunity to prosper in a growing INC.5000 organization.

About Axle Logistics

Axle Logistics is a non-asset based, third-party logistics (3PL) company with a focus on providing safe, reliable, advanced transportation services (Truckload, LTL, Intermodal, and Warehousing ) to a wide variety of customers throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and Mexico.

Axle Logistics was built with the overall vision of bringing a sense of comfort and convenience to an industry often filled with inefficiencies by providing specialized customer service and unique overall philosophy and approach to logistics management.

Axle Logistics of Knoxville, TN is looking to hire highly motivated individuals for our 2023 Summer Internship Program. As an Operations Intern, you will be responsible to coordinate all processes and functions of shipment planning and freight movement. You will be helping our customers move their inventory in the most cost-effective way by identifying and providing logistics solutions as well as providing visibility to management and clients in the form of tracking & tracing, auditing, researching, and troubleshooting all operational issues.

What’s the opportunity?

Based in the brand-new Knoxville, TN headquarters, this highly competitive Summer Internship Program grants exposure to the fast-paced world of Logistics. Responsible for collaborating with its internal Axle team, this internship provides the skills and techniques to be an operations manager in an ever-changing and dynamic industry.

What does the position require?

• Operations Management
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written
• First-class customer service to clients and carriers
• Ability to multitask within a fast-paced industry
• Capability to prioritize time-sensitive tasks
• Properly execute rate negotiations with partner carriers within the spot market
• Implementation of services

What is Axle looking for?

• Highly motivated candidates looking to expand industry knowledge
• Strong email, phone, and face-to-face communication skills
• Fast learner capable of working independently as well as a team
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Interest in a future career in third party logistics

Axle Logistics of Knoxville, TN is looking to hire highly motivated individuals for our 2023 Summer Internship Program. Do you have an aptitude for sales and a desire to get into the essential supply chain industry? Are you looking for more than a job? Do you want to work in an energetic, addicting, inspiring, meaningful, rewarding, and fun environment for a growing Inc. 5000 organization where hard work truly pays off? If so, please read on!

ABOUT AXLE LOGISTICS

We are a non-asset based, third-party logistics (3PL) company with a focus on providing safe and reliable advanced truckload, LTL, intermodal, and warehousing transportation services to a wide variety of customers throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Our company was built with the overall vision of bringing a sense of comfort and convenience to an industry often filled with inefficiencies. We accomplish this by applying a unique overall philosophy to supply chain logistics management that includes providing specialized customer service. Our primary function is to arrange for freight transportation and meet the deadlines given to us by our partners. We expect our trained logistics consultants to deliver this with the highest level of service possible while treating everyone with respect and kindness. We’ve found that honesty and open communication enables our partners to trust us implicitly, giving all of us the confidence needed to better handle unexpected situations.

Throw out any preconceived notions you may have about working for a logistics company. We have an entrepreneurial work environment in which employees are entrusted with massive responsibility and the ability to control their own success within their personal book of business. We focus heavily on fostering optimism among our people. We maintain a family environment where we work as a team, benefit each other, and embrace the “work hard, play hard” mentality. We care about our employees, and we’re not afraid to show it. It’s incredibly important to us that our employees are active, healthy, and happy.

What’s the opportunity?

Axle Logistics is seeking a highly motivated candidate that thrives in an environment where hard work truly pays off. Based in the brand-new Knoxville, TN headquarters, this highly competitive Summer Internship Program grants exposure to the fast-paced world of Logistics. Responsible for collaborating with its internal Axle team, this internship provides the skills and techniques to be a successful salesperson, account manager, and operations manager in an ever-changing and dynamic industry. In this rotational program, you take on the full scope of our Logistics Consultant role which involves sales, account management, and operations.

What does the position require?

• Lead generation
• Qualifying leads
• Account Management
• Operations Management
• Identifying key decision-makers
• Utilizing our TMS System (McLeod Software)
• Load Building and Planning
• Building out an organizational chart of key participants
• Utilizing internal CRM to capture all corresponding information
• Making contact with an identified decision-maker
• Selling Axle Logistics and its portfolio of services
• Negotiation of contracts and rates
• Implementation of services

What is Axle looking for?

• Highly motivated candidates looking to expand industry knowledge
• Strong email, phone, and face-to-face communication skills
• Fast learner capable of working independently as well as a team
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Interest in a future career in third party logistics

Axle Logistics of Knoxville, TN is looking to hire highly motivated individuals for our Logistics Analyst Summer Internship Program. As a Logistics Analytics Intern, you will be responsible to assist with data cleansing, upload and downloading of files, consolidation of multiple files/spreadsheets, assist in data modeling and report building in PowerBI, input and format analysis of pricing and shipment awards, and assist in further development of enterprise reporting.

ABOUT AXLE LOGISTICS

We are a non-asset based, third-party logistics (3PL) company with a focus on providing safe and reliable advanced truckload, LTL, intermodal, and warehousing transportation services to a wide variety of customers throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Our company was built with the overall vision of bringing a sense of comfort and convenience to an industry often filled with inefficiencies. We accomplish this by applying a unique overall philosophy to supply chain logistics management that includes providing specialized customer service. Our primary function is to arrange for freight transportation and meet the deadlines given to us by our partners. We expect our trained logistics consultants to deliver this with the highest level of service possible while treating everyone with respect and kindness. We’ve found that honesty and open communication enables our partners to trust us implicitly, giving all of us the confidence needed to better handle unexpected situations.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to the following:

• Assist with data cleansing, upload and downloading of files, and consolidation of multiple files
• Data Modeling and report building in PowerBI
• Input and format analysis of pricing and shipment awards
• Assist in further development of enterprise reporting
• Assist in the analysis of enterprise operational efficiency
• Create unique client-specific reporting
• Analyze account trends and provide holistic feedback to key internal stakeholders

Axle Logistics of Knoxville, TN is looking to hire highly motivated individuals for our 2023 Summer Internship Program. Do you have an aptitude for sales and a desire to get into the essential supply chain industry? Are you looking for more than a job? Do you want to work in an energetic, addicting, inspiring, meaningful, rewarding, and fun environment for a growing Inc. 5000 organization where hard work truly pays off? If so, please read on!

ABOUT AXLE LOGISTICS

We are a non-asset based, third-party logistics (3PL) company with a focus on providing safe and reliable advanced truckload, LTL, intermodal, and warehousing transportation services to a wide variety of customers throughout the continental U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Our company was built with the overall vision of bringing a sense of comfort and convenience to an industry often filled with inefficiencies. We accomplish this by applying a unique overall philosophy to supply chain logistics management that includes providing specialized customer service. Our primary function is to arrange for freight transportation and meet the deadlines given to us by our partners. We expect our trained logistics consultants to deliver this with the highest level of service possible while treating everyone with respect and kindness. We’ve found that honesty and open communication enables our partners to trust us implicitly, giving all of us the confidence needed to better handle unexpected situations.

Throw out any preconceived notions you may have about working for a logistics company. We have an entrepreneurial work environment in which employees are entrusted with massive responsibility and the ability to control their own success within their personal book of business. We focus heavily on fostering optimism among our people. We maintain a family environment where we work as a team, benefit each other, and embrace the “work hard, play hard” mentality. We care about our employees, and we’re not afraid to show it. It’s incredibly important to us that our employees are active, healthy, and happy.

What’s the opportunity?

Axle Logistics is seeking a highly motivated candidate that thrives in an environment where hard work truly pays off. Based in the brand-new Knoxville, TN headquarters, this highly competitive Summer Internship Program grants exposure to the fast-paced world of Logistics. Responsible for collaborating with its internal Axle team, this internship provides the skills and techniques to be a successful salesperson, account manager, and operations manager in an ever-changing and dynamic industry. In this rotational program, you take on the full scope of our Logistics Consultant role which involves sales, account management, and operations.

What does the position require?

• Lead generation
• Qualifying leads
• Account Management
• Operations Management
• Identifying key decision-makers
• Utilizing our TMS System (McLeod Software)
• Load Building and Planning
• Building out an organizational chart of key participants
• Utilizing internal CRM to capture all corresponding information
• Making contact with an identified decision-maker
• Selling Axle Logistics and its portfolio of services
• Negotiation of contracts and rates
• Implementation of services

What is Axle looking for?

• Highly motivated candidates looking to expand industry knowledge
• Strong email, phone, and face-to-face communication skills
• Fast learner capable of working independently as well as a team
• Ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment
• Interest in a future career in third party logistics