Road Freight Forwarder

Green & Wolvin Recruitment; Hemington; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 32 days

Bonus scheme

Company benefits

Training & development

Job summary

Green & Wolvin Recruitment is actively seeking a Road Freight Forwarder to join at our client’s SME freight forwarding operation in the Castle Donington area. The role reports to the Road & European Freight Manager and focuses on pricing, booking and monitoring road freight across UK, EU and Turkey.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years in road freight forwarding, strong pricing/quotations experience, and a good understanding of INCOTerms.

Qualifications

• 2+ years' experience in road freight forwarding and transport planning.
• Experience pricing, quoting and organising customer deliveries across UK/EU road freight.
• Desirable: experience with customs compliance and VAT/duties handling.
• Excellent customer service and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage pricing, quoting, booking and file monitoring of road freight across import/export UK, EU and Turkey.
• Prepare road freight pricing and quotations, including freight, port charges, insurance and related costs.
• Organise road transport through third-party transit across Europe and Turkey.
• Handle customs entries and arrange billing and VAT/duties; ensure customs clearance is conducted.

Skills

Road freight forwarding

Pricing & quotations

Customer service

Incoterms knowledge

Transport planning

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, Leicestershire.

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.

• 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

• 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 Castle Donington, Leicestershire

What's On Offer?

• £34,000-£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