Alex Lindeberg
Rockford,MN
Summary
Experienced account management professional prepared for leadership in client relations and team development. Skilled in strategic planning, customer engagement, and performance optimization. Strong focus on team collaboration, adaptability, and achieving results. Reliable, flexible, and capable of navigating changing needs with excellent communication and problem-solving abilities.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Search Consultant/Recruiter
GPAC
10.2025 - Current
- Full desk Logistics and Transportation Recruitment for positions from entry level to C-Suite in AR, OK, MS, TN, KS, MO, LA and MS.
- Generate my own inventory of candidates and job orders/clients from targeted email outreach, LinkedIn connection, Inmails, cold calls, job postings, and referrals.
- Make 350-400 phones calls (10-12 hours phone time), bulk emails and targeted emails to thousands of candidates and hiring authorities, conducted discovery interviews, candidate data sheets and search assignments to establish best fits each week.
- Schedule meetings with owners, CEO’s and director/manager level hiring authorities to find urgent hiring needs
- Interview dozens of candidates per week to find top-tier talent to place
- Develop my territory through targeted research and data entry afterhours (2 hours per night/avg)
- Conduct interview and candidate prep prior to scheduled interviews
- Create presentations for candidates and job orders to deliver live to prospects
Director of Sales & Carrier Sourcing
MVP Logistics LLC
05.2021 - 10.2025
- Built a book of business of mainly food grade commodities through cold calling, emails, conference calls and in person meetings with new customer prospects I sourced independently (400+ calls per week).
- Responsible for the entire sales process, from prospecting, to close.
- Responsible for self-generated leads through several vehicles. (LinkedIn, grocery visits, warm leads)
- Responsible for ~$3M in personal margin.
- Utilized personal accountability for managing my own hours and schedule to hit goals, budgets and meet projections set up by my manager and owner.
- Managed team of 4 brokers to cover all FTL freight awarded to MVP.
- Drove profitability by sourcing capacity and reducing carrier spend by 5.75% in 6 months.
- Implemented KPIs to track growth and development of the team and individual brokers.
- Developed and implemented new operational structure to correct inefficiencies and increase performance.
- Lead a team that increased daily load books from 29 to 55 per day.
- Increased on-time/in-full from 88% to 97%.
- Responsible for completing all FTL RFPs to win new customers for the sales team.
- Rated all spot freight opportunities from current and prospective customers.
National Account Executive
StoneArch Logistics
Minneapolis
03.2018 - 04.2021
- Build a book of business through cold calling, emails, conference calls and in person meetings with new customer prospects I sourced independently (400+ calls per week).
- Responsible for the entire sales process, from prospecting, to close.
- Responsible for self generated leads through several vehicles. (LinkedIn, grocery visits, warm leads)
- Responsible for ~$2.44 M in personal margin.
- Utilized personal accountability for managing my own hours and schedule to hit goals, budgets and meet projections set up by my manager and owner.
- Responsible for managing accounts until it qualified for transition to sales operations.
Account Manager/Supervisor - 24/7 Sales Team
C.H. Robinson
Eden Prairie
09.2016 - 02.2018
- Supervised a team of 7-10 after hours account managers.
- Managed Amazon, Target and Walmart accounts in the after-hours space.
- Bid on live spot opportunities for Amazon, managed awards, and assigned carriers.
- Managed awards and spot opportunities for Walmart and Target accounts.
- Responsible for 500+ Amazon loads per month for ~$750,000-$1,000,000 in revenue, ~$150-$200k margin per month.
- Led the team in loads awarded, revenue and total margin
Zone Sales Northeast Region
C.H. Robinson
Eden Prairie
09.2015 - 09.2016
- Responsible for Northeast to Southwest Corridor and OH Outbound.
- Built Relationships with carriers to cover all freight originating in my zone, covered spot opportunities and same day awards.
- Made cold calls to carriers to sell lanes, cover spot loads, and build capacity network.
- Completed RFPs for customer team to maximize awards.
- Booked ~350 loads per month maintaining ~15% margins.
- Led Northeast team in loads booked.
- Managed additional capacity sourcing and load volume during peak produce seasons.
Zone Sales Southeast Region
C.H. Robinson
Eden Prairie, MN
01.2013 - 09.2015
- Responsible for Southeast to Southwest Corridor.
- Built Relationships with carriers to cover all freight originating in my zone, covered spot opportunities and same day awards.
- Made cold calls to carriers to sell lanes, cover spot loads, and build capacity network
- Completed RFPs for customer team to maximize awards
- Booked ~300 loads per month maintaining ~15% margins.
- Led Southeast team in loads booked.
- Managed additional capacity sourcing and load volume during peak produce seasons.
Senior Account Manager
Blackstone
Plymouth, MN
03.2012 - 12.2012
- Sold fiberoptic internet and DirectTV subscriptions door to door.
- Developed my territory weekly by targeted outreach via personal scheduling and ~100 doors per day.
- Led a team of up to 5 Account Managers, provided coaching and daily meetings to ensure they were set up for success.
- Interviewed, onboarded and trained new account managers.
- Led Team in new contracts signed.
- Spent 7-8 hours per day conducting live presentations to cold prospects
- Led morning meetings and scheduling
Financial Advisor
Northwestern Mutual
Minneapolis, MN
05.2011 - 02.2012
- Developed my own financial practice book of business in life insurance and ROTH IRAs
- Passed Life/Health, series 6 and 63 licensing tests.
- Prospected, cold called hundreds of potential clients and scheduled meetings with potential new clients each month.
- Conducted discovery meetings with potential new clients, ~10 per week.
- Signed 27 new total clients.
- Achieved Power of 10 Award for first 90 days. 10 clients signed.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Saint John’s University
Collegeville, MN05.2011
Skills
- Leadership
- Self-Driven
- Management
- Communication
- Microsoft Applications
- Time Management
- Collaborative
- Consultative Selling
- Process Design
- Business Development
- Supply Chain Management
- TMS/ CRM (HubSpot, Salesforce, McLeod, Mercury Gate, Revenova)
- BI & Analytics (PowerBI)
- Teamwork
- Strategic Account Management
- Recruiting & Talent Acquisition
- Training
- Continuous Improvement
- Process Improvement
- Operations Optimization
- Cold-Calling
- Prospecting
- Carrier Sourcing
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Problem Solving/Decision Making
- Negotiation
- KPI Oversight
- Client management
- Analytical mindset
- Goal orientation
- Cross-cultural design
Accomplishments
- Training - Designed and executed one-month training program for company sales team, increasing employee productivity and product knowledge.
Other Experience
Varsity Hockey, Saint John’s University, 2008-2011 Balanced schoolwork and varsity hockey while maintaining 3.5 GPA and full course load Built relationships, and developed worth ethic, mental toughness, and time management skills
Timeline
Search Consultant/Recruiter
GPAC
10.2025 - Current
Director of Sales & Carrier Sourcing
MVP Logistics LLC
05.2021 - 10.2025
National Account Executive
StoneArch Logistics
03.2018 - 04.2021
Account Manager/Supervisor - 24/7 Sales Team
C.H. Robinson
09.2016 - 02.2018
Zone Sales Northeast Region
C.H. Robinson
09.2015 - 09.2016
Zone Sales Southeast Region
C.H. Robinson
01.2013 - 09.2015
Senior Account Manager
Blackstone
03.2012 - 12.2012
Financial Advisor
Northwestern Mutual
05.2011 - 02.2012
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Saint John’s University