Sea Freight Forwarder

Green & Wolvin Recruitment; Lichfield; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Sea Freight Forwarder in Lichfield. The ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience in freight forwarding, specializing in ocean and sea freight, with excellent customer service skills. This role offers a hybrid working model, a salary between £34,000-£38,000, a bonus scheme, and opportunities for career growth within a dynamic team.

Benefits

Company bonus scheme - circa 10%-20% of salary

Comprehensive company benefits account

Private healthcare scheme

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in freight forwarding, especially sea or ocean freight.
• Experience with pricing, quotations, and planning deliveries across ocean and sea freight.
• Desirable experience of customs compliance.

Responsibilities

• Manage sea/ocean freight import and export bookings including pricing and quotations.
• Prepare operations documentation including Bills of Lading and loading confirmations.
• Nominating carriers and shipping lines based on rates and customer requirements.
• Raise customs documentation to facilitate cross-country freight movement.
• Analyze customer rates and ensure operational efficiency.
• Develop relationships to maintain high customer service levels.

Skills

Freight Forwarding

Customer Service

Customs Compliance

INCOTerms Knowledge

Job description

Overview

We are actively looking to engage ocean & sea freight professionals with a passion for freight forwarding and aviation shipping for a new role as a Sea Freight Forwarder working, on a hybrid basis, from Lichfield in the West Midlands.

Client Details

My client is a market-leader in the shipping industry and has offices based across the world (in Iberia, Central Europe, North & South America, the Far East & more recently in Africa). You will be joining a fast-paced environment assisting in finding logistics solutions for some of the world\'s largest industrial, retail & FMCG based customers. My client focuses on providing cost-effective and best in class services for worldwide ocean and sea freight. With large scale investment they are actively looking to grow their freight forwarding offerings across the UK by adding additional opportunities within their Lichfield office in the West Midlands.

Responsibilities

• Manage sea / ocean freight import and export bookings including pricing, quotations, end-to-end shipping and customs documentations.
• Documents of Operations and transportation (booking, Bills of Laden, pre-advices, loading confirmation).
• Nominating carriers, hauliers and shipping lines, in-line with rates, OTIF value and customer requirements in line with a variety of INCOTerms.
• Raise additional customs documentation to ensure the freight can move from country to country (ISF, COO, clearance documentation etc).
• Customer rate analysis on route guidance, whilst monitoring and secure allocations and operation efficiency.
• Develop and build relationships to ensure a high level of customer service is provided to clients with a knowledge of the clients business requirements.

The Ideal Candidate

• 2+ year\'s experience in freight forwarding in either sea or ocean freight forwarding.
• Experience of pricing, quotation and planning customer deliveries across ocean & sea freight.
• Desirable experience of customs compliance.
• Excellent customer service experience.
• Knowledge of INCOTerms is advantageous.
• Commutable to Lichfield in the West Midlands on a hybrid basis.

What's On Offer

• £34,000-£38,000.
• Hybrid working 2-3 days in the office in Lichfield.
• Company bonus scheme - circa 10%-20% of salary.
• Comprehensive company benefits account.
• Large opportunities to progress knowledge and job banding.
• Private healthcare scheme