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Road Freight Forwarder
Job Posted: 4 days ago
Salary: £ 30,000 - 36,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Expire in: 24 days
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 Nottinghamshire!
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 & 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 Nottinghamshire 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)
* Excellent customer service experience
* Knowledge of INCOTerms is advantageous
* Commutable to Nottinghamshire
What's On Offer?
* £30,000-£36,000
* 32 days annual leave
* Up to 20% company bonus / profit share
* Comprehensive company benefits account.
* World-class training & development and large opportunities to progressBefore You Apply
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