Job Details

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. You will be responsible for the following areas for responsibility across the Castle-Donington, Leicestershire 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 either air or 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
• 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.-