Road Freight Forwarder

Green & Wolvin Recruitment; North West Leicestershire; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

32 days annual leave

Up to 20% company bonus / profit share

Comprehensive company benefits account

World-class training and development opportunities

Job summary

A logistics recruitment agency is seeking a Road Freight Forwarder for a role located in Castle Donington. This position requires at least 2 years of experience in road freight forwarding and involves managing pricing, booking, and customs clearance. The ideal candidate will also have knowledge of INCOTerms and customs compliance. Attractive benefits include significant annual leave and a company bonus.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in road freight forwarding and transport planning.
• Experience in pricing, quotations, and planning customer deliveries across road freight.
• Knowledge of customs compliance is desirable but not essential.

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.

Skills

Road freight forwarding experience

Transport planning

Customs compliance knowledge

INCOTerms knowledge

Education

Graduate in logistics or related field

Job description

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Managing Director | Green & Wolvin | Logistics, Shipping & Supply Chain

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!

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)
• Knowledge of INCOTerms is advantageous
• Commutable to Castle Donington, in Derbyshire.

What's On Offer?

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

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Supply Chain, Distribution, and Customer Service

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage and Freight and Package Transportation

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