Client Details
My client is a leading 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 European Road Freight Co-ordinator 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 Derbyshire office:
* Join a small team of 4 European and UK road freight co-ordinators responsible for managing the pricing, quoting, booking and file monitoring of freight across import & export road freight to and from EU, Switzerland and Turkey. The business is mixed across groupage services, full-loads and part-loads.
* 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, Switzerland 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 European Road Freight Co-ordinator will have the following skills and experience:
* 2+ year's experience in road freight forwarding, transport planning or european freight.
* 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 Derbyshire on a hybrid basis
What's On Offer?
* £30,000-£37,000
* 32 days annual leave
* 10% - 15% company bonus / profit share
* Comprehensive company benefits account.
* World-class training & development and large opportunities to progress
Salary description
£30000.00 - £37000.00 per year