Key Account Manager (KAM) - Enterprise Customers

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Manage and grow strategic enterprise accounts while ensuring customer retention and account expansion by acting as a trusted partner throughout the customer lifecycle.

We are looking for a Key Account Manager (KAM) to manage and grow our strategic enterprise accounts, primarily large shippers and freight forwarders.

Reporting directly to the VP Customer Success, your main objective will be customer retention and account expansion, ensuring long-term value creation for both Searoutes and our clients.

This role requires a strong commercial mindset, deep understanding of the logistics and maritime ecosystem, and the ability to support customers operationally when needed, acting as a trusted partner across the full customer lifecycle.

  • Own and manage a portfolio of strategic enterprise customers (shippers, digital providers and freight forwarders)
  • Drive renewals, upsell, and cross-sell opportunities to maximize lifetime value
  • Build strong, long-term relationships with key decision-makers and operational stakeholders
  • Ensure high customer satisfaction by proactively addressing client needs and risks
  • Act as a first-level support escalation when necessary, coordinating with product and technical teams to resolve issues
  • Translate customer feedback into actionable insights for Product and Tech teams
  • Monitor account health, usage, and performance indicators
  • Support onboarding and adoption to ensure customers fully leverage Searoutes solutions

Salary range: 50,000€ to 65,000€ depending on experience and seniority + variables

Requirements

  • 3–7+ years of experience in Key Account Management, Customer Success, or Sales in SaaS, logistics, maritime, or supply chain
  • Strong knowledge of the shipping, freight forwarding, or logistics industry
  • Proven track record in account retention and expansion
  • Customer-oriented mindset with a hands-on approach
  • Comfortable interacting with both business and operational/technical stakeholders
  • Ability to step in on support topics when required and drive issues to resolution
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills
  • Fluent in English (French is a plus)

Benefits

As part of our team, you will:

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Team building events: Join our team building events and be an equal part of the team
  • Remote-Friendly: Work remotely and be empowered to deliver your best work

Searoutes is the upcoming standard for GHG emissions management in the logistics. We enable shippers to build and execute GHG reduction strategies. We are intimately convinced that reducing GHG emissions in the logistics is an operational problem, so we leverage modern algorithms to go beyond standard methodologies, and give shippers the visibility they deserve. In the last 12 months, we've deployed our APIs at 40+ companies and scaled to 500k+ calls per day.We're backed by top advisors (Xeneta, DSV, ClearMetal, X-Up) and believe in product led growth. Our culture is deeply rooted in research and development, put to the service of one the greatest problems of our times. Searoutes is remote first, with most of our team based in Europe and Canada.

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€50.000 – €65.000 per year
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