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Road Freight Forwarder
- hemington, england, United Kingdom
- £34 - £38 Per Hour
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