Freight Specialist
Location: Greater Edinburgh, Scotland
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 (DOE)
Monday - Friday (9am - 5pm)
Alexander Steele are delighted to be supporting a growing wholesale business seeking a Freight Specialist to join their team on a permanent basis.
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced logistics professional with strong international freight and customs knowledge to join a growing organisation. The role will focus on managing the movement of goods across multiple markets, developing key logistics partnerships, and ensuring products move efficiently, compliantly and cost-effectively throughout the supply chain.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of international and domestic freight activities, ensuring goods are delivered on time and in full.
- Build and manage relationships with freight forwarders, customs agents, warehousing partners and transport providers.
- Coordinate import and export shipments while ensuring all customs and regulatory requirements are met.
- Support bonded storage operations and maintain visibility of stock moving through customs-controlled environments.
- Monitor logistics performance, identifying opportunities to improve service levels, reduce costs and enhance efficiency.
- Investigate and resolve freight-related issues including delays, shortages, damaged goods and customs queries.
- Work collaboratively with internal teams to align inventory availability with customer and business requirements.
- Produce regular logistics reports and performance analysis to support operational decision making.
- Contribute to process improvement initiatives and help strengthen internal customs and trade compliance capabilities.
The Ideal Candidate
- Experience within freight forwarding, international logistics, supply chain or import/export operations.
- Strong understanding of customs procedures, international shipping documentation and trade compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of bonded warehousing and customs-controlled stock movements would be highly advantageous.
- Proven experience managing third-party logistics providers and external supply chain partners.
- Able to interpret data and KPIs to identify trends and drive improvements.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and logistics reporting systems.