European Road Freight Controller

Green & Wolvin Recruitment; West Midlands Combined Authority; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading freight forwarding business in the West Midlands is looking for a European Road Freight Controller. You will manage pricing, quotations, and bookings for freight across Europe, ensuring compliance and excellent customer service. This role offers competitive salary, 32 days annual leave, and strong opportunities for development.

Benefits

32 days annual leave

10%-15% company bonus/profit share

Comprehensive company benefits account

World-class training & development

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience in road freight forwarding.
• Experience of pricing and planning customer deliveries in the UK and EU.
• Knowledge of INCOTerms is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage pricing, quoting, booking and monitoring of freight across EU.
• Organize road transport through third-party transit means.
• Handle customs entries and ensure customs clearance.

Skills

Customer Service

Pricing & Quotation

Customs Compliance

Job description

We are actively looking to engage shipping, freight and European road transport professionals with as passion for freight forwarding for a new role as a European Road Freight Controller in Solihull in the West Midlands.

Client Details
My client is a leading freight forwarding business, with huge ambitions for growth, in the freight & shipping industry. You will be joining a fast-pace environment assisting in finding logistics solutions for some of the world's largest industrial, retail & FMCG based customers. My client focuses on searching air freight, sea freight & road freight solutions, which are both cost effective & time sensitive.

Job Description
As a European Road Freight Controller you will report in to the Road & European Freight Manager on a daily basis. You will be responsible for the following areas for responsibility across the Solihull, West Midlands office:

• Managing the pricing, quoting, booking and file monitoring of freight across import & export road freight to and from EU, Switzerland and Turkey. The business is mixed across groupage services, full-loads and part-loads.
• Responsible for preparing road freight pricing & customer quotations - informing about the freight prices, port charges, cost of special documents, insurance prices as well as prices for handling the goods.
• Organising road transport through third party transit means throughout Europe, Switzerland and Turkey.
• Providing appropriate transportation means with adequate load capacity and regulations around WTD and VOSA regulations.
• Handling customs entries (EUR1's / ATR1's) and arranging billings for VAT/Duties
• Ensuring, booking and conducting customs clearance.

The Ideal Candidate

The successful candidate will have an expansive background in either air or road freight forwarding industry. The ideal European Road Freight Controller will have the following skills and experience:

• 2+ year's experience in road freight forwarding, transport planning or european freight.
• Experience of pricing, quotation and planning customer deliveries across road freight in the UK and EU.
• Desirable experience of customs compliance (not essential)
• Excellent customer service experience
• Knowledge of INCOTerms is advantageous
• Commutable to Solihull, West Midlands on a hybrid basis

What's On Offer?

• 32,000- 38,000
• 32 days annual leave
• 10% - 15% company bonus / profit share
• Comprehensive company benefits account.
• World-class training & development and large opportunities to progress.