Road Freight Forwarder

Green & Wolvin Recruitment; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A logistics recruitment agency is seeking a Road Freight Forwarder to join a dynamic team in Castle Donington. The role involves managing freight pricing, booking, and customs clearance for road transport to and from the EU and Turkey. The ideal candidate has over 2 years of experience in freight forwarding and excellent customer service skills. Comprehensive company benefits and training opportunities are offered.

Benefits

32 days annual leave

Up to 20% company bonus

Comprehensive benefits account

World-class training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in road freight forwarding.
• Experience of pricing and quotation for road freight.
• Knowledge of customs clearance procedures.

Responsibilities

• Manage pricing and quoting for freight services.
• Organise road transport through third-party providers.
• Conduct customs clearance and handle entries.

Skills

Road freight forwarding experience

Transport planning

Customer service

Knowledge of INCOTerms

Customs compliance

Education

Graduate in logistics or related field

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 Road Freight Forwarder in Castle Donington, in Derbyshire!

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 & solution driven.

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 Castle Donington, in Derbyshire 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 the 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.
• A graduate with a desire to join the logistics & freight industry would also be strongly considered.
• 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 Castle Donington, in Derbyshire.

What's On Offer?

• 30,000- 36,000
• 32 days annual leave
• Up to 20% company bonus / profit share
• Comprehensive company benefits account.
• World-class training & development and large opportunities to progress.