Road Freight Forwarder

Green & Wolvin Recruitment; Burton upon Trent; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Road Freight Forwarder in Burton-upon-Trent. This role involves managing pricing, booking, and logistics for road freight across the UK and EU. The ideal candidate should have over 2 years of experience in road freight forwarding and demonstrate excellent customer service skills. This position offers a salary of £30,000-£35,000, along with comprehensive benefits and opportunities for training and 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 with pricing and planning customer deliveries.
• Desirable experience of customs compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage pricing, quoting, booking, and file monitoring of freight.
• Prepare road freight pricing and customer quotations.
• Organize road transport through third-party transit means.
• Handle customs entries and arrange billings for VAT/Duties.
• Conduct customs clearance.

Skills

Road freight forwarding experience

Transport planning

Customer service experience

Knowledge of INCOTerms

Job description

Overview

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 Road Freight Forwarder in Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire!

Client Details

My client is a SME 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 Road Freight Forwarder 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 Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire office:

• Managing the pricing, quoting, booking and file monitoring of freight across import & export road freight to and from EU and Turkey.
• 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 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 Road Freight Forwarder will have the following skills and experience:

• 2+ year's experience in road freight forwarding, transport planning
• 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 Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire on a hybrid basis

What's On Offer?

• £30,000-£35,000
• 32 days annual leave
• 10% - 15% company bonus / profit share
• Comprehensive company benefits account.
• World-class training & development and large opportunities to progress