The Brokerage Customer Support Specialist supports customer accounts. He/She analyzes and responds to customers requests, resolves customer issues, conducts research, prepares reports, and identifies account penetration opportunities. This position reviews rates, tracks shipments and orders, prepares reports, and updates customer files and profiles. The Brokerage Customer Support Specialist maintains ongoing relationships with customers and assists with customer setups. He/She provides service failure recovery management. This position may require travel to customer locations for business and quality reviews.
The Brokerage Customer Support Specialist, acting as the Brokerage Assist Agent (BA Agent), plays a critical role in driving successful customer implementation and strengthening long‑term customer relationships. The BA Agent ensures smooth and proactive onboarding experience for new customers at the start of their shipping journey by enabling customer readiness, validating brokerage setup, and establishing effective shipment monitoring and exception management processes.
Working closely with Account Executives, Origin and Destination Brokerage teams, and customers, the BA Agent proactively identifies and resolves customs clearance risks that may impact service performance. The role is accountable for conducting root cause analysis on shipment holds and recommending compliant corrective actions or alternative solutions to mitigate risk, support timely shipment release, and reinforce customer confidence and retention.