Early Career Rotational Leadership Development Program - Capacity Operations
The Early Career Rotational Leadership Development Program at Confidential Client offers a hands-on opportunity for recent graduates to gain comprehensive experience in freight brokerage, sales, operations, and analytics within Capacity Solutions. Participants rotate through key business areas, developing leadership, commercial, and operational skills while contributing to business growth and building strong customer and carrier relationships. This program prepares candidates for future leadership roles by combining practical experience, mentorship, and exposure to strategic decision-making in a fast-paced transportation environment.
About Careertakes
👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Customer Services.
Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.
Program Overview
Confidential Client’s LEAD Rotational Leadership Development Program — Capacity Operations is an early-career rotational program based in Cedar Rapids, IA designed to develop future commercial and operational leaders. Over multiple, hands-on rotations you’ll gain experience in freight brokerage, carrier capacity, customer management, sales, pricing and analytics. This is a high-visibility, growth-oriented role for candidates who want to combine sales, operations and leadership in a transportation/logistics setting.
What You’ll Do
- Build hands-on experience across brokerage operations, carrier capacity, sales, customer management, pricing and analytics
- Develop customer and carrier relationships to support long-term partnerships
- Support sales and business development activities (prospecting, outreach, relationship-building)
- Use data and reporting to evaluate performance and support business decisions
- Learn how pricing, margins, service and capacity choices affect profitability
- Track goals and KPIs to measure individual and business performance
- Partner across teams to solve customer and operational challenges
- Take on projects with increasing responsibility throughout the program
- Build communication, decision-making and people-leadership skills via mentorship and on-the-job experience
What Success Looks Like
You don’t need prior transportation experience — success in this program comes from curiosity, energy and an ability to learn quickly. You’ll excel if you:
- Enjoy meeting people and building relationships
- Are motivated by goals, measurable results and accountability
- Have the confidence to initiate conversations and the persistence to follow through
- Balance people skills with attention to data and follow-through
- Thrive in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities
- Take ownership of your work and look for ways to improve processes
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrated leadership, accountability or increasing responsibility through work, internships, athletics or campus involvement
- Interest in sales, freight brokerage, transportation, logistics or business operations
- Comfortable working toward measurable goals and using metrics to evaluate performance
- Ability to work onsite in Cedar Rapids, IA
- Resilience, curiosity, adaptability and willingness to learn
Preferred Experience
- Sales, business development, recruiting, fundraising, account management or customer service experience
- Internship or work experience in logistics, operations, supply chain, retail or hospitality
- Leadership roles in work, athletics or student organizations
- Exposure to pricing, financial analysis, data analytics or Excel
- Experience working while completing your degree
- Degree in Business, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Logistics, Management, Finance, Data Analytics or a related field
Compensation & Benefits
- Estimated pay (sourced from posting): $65,005 per year — estimated
- Program compensation is competitive; additional details will be shared with qualified candidates during interviews
- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, retirement savings, paid time off and other company-sponsored programs
- Relocation may be considered later depending on rotation and business needs
- Structured professional development: rotations, leadership exposure and mentorship
Location & Work Arrangement
- Job Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
- Work Arrangement: Onsite (participants must be able to work onsite in Cedar Rapids)
Why This Program
This LEAD program positions participants to move into roles across sales, brokerage operations, account management, carrier capacity, commercial strategy or people leadership based on performance and business needs. You’ll work directly on business challenges, learn from experienced leaders, and build a foundation for a long-term career in capacity operations and freight brokerage.
Core Values
- Safety at the core of all we do
- Integrity in every decision and action
- Commitment to the success of employees, customers, agents, contractors and communities
Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency
Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind.
To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.
If you have questions about how your data is used, please contact us directly.
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