Kari Bolin Email & Phone Number

Riverview, Fl, Us

Currently responsible for managing and developing strategic accounts with key customers to drive revenue growth and profitability for a logistics organization. Develop and implement strategic account management plans to achieve sales targets and build strong relationships with customers. I work closely with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for growth, improvement, and operational efficiency. Conduct regular business reviews with customers to review performance, identify opportunities, and develop action plans. Negotiate contracts and pricing agreements with customers to maximize profitability and minimize risk. Provide accurate and timely reporting on sales performance, customer activity, and market trends. Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements.

Riverview, Fl, Us

Responsible for managing and overseeing the logistics operations for our contracted customers. Setting up specific SOP’s to ensure customers are receiving proactive communication regarding their shipments so we can appropriately plan and manage through the exceptions as needed to meet their needs. When working through SOP’s, I am ensuring that the logistics operations are efficient, cost-effective, and meet customer requirements. Setting the proper expectations with the team allows the reports on operational metrics to be standardized and monitored through the whole team. This also allowed me to review the data and find ways to continuously improve our strategies and processes. Continuously collaborate with other departments to ensure that logistics activities are integrated with the overall business strategy and other departments are aware of specific customer needs and seasonality throughout the year.

Riverview, Fl, Us

Customers commend BlueGrace for our reliability, flexibility and the ability to solve unique logistics challenges. Responsible for taking best practices from our organization and apply them to each of our customer relationships. Evaluates client needs, develops configurations that support business processes. Defines and executes on delivery and implementation plans. Also assists with improving workflows, organization and system change methods.

Riverview, Fl, Us

Effectively manage the support structure that is essential to our sales force productivity. I assist our sales force when on boarding, maintaining and growing our footprint within a number of larger companies. I am training the operations team on how to effectively handle any issues that may arise to best service the customer while keeping our operating expense to a minimum. I work effectively to promote the on boarding of new business that will allow our carrier sales team to expand our carrier base in particular regions.

Riverview, Fl, Us

Riverview, Fl, Us

With my background knowledge of being the daily contact for all LTL carriers and TL carriers, I am able to offer solutions to customers that are juggling all of the tasks I used to juggle. I am able to assist in setting customers up on a TMS that allows them to choose the carriers that they want to haul freight along with being aware of the fright cost. I am able to save people time during their day when it comes to shipping so they are able to concentrate on the bigger picture which are their customers.

Plant City, Fl, Us

I handle the routing of LTL and Truckload shipments outside of Star Transportation's delivery area for our in house customers as well as Truckload and LTL shipments for customers that do not store in our facility. I am also active in negotiating rates with LTL and Truckload carriers, daily tracing and other issues that may arise. I invoice and submit payables for shipments along with claims when they happen.

Plant City, Fl, Us

I handle day to day operations for 40 vastly different accounts in our facility. I process their orders from start to finish. I inbound their product, key their orders, furnish them to the warehouse to selection, acquire rates to ship them if they are out of our delivery area, or hand them off to our dispatchers to route on Star's Fleet.