Job Description
European Road Freight Operator - Freight Forwarding,
· Confident and professional manner
· Enthusiastic with outgoing personality
· Can do / customer first attitude
· Previous experience in freight forwarding by ROAD FREIGHT
· Good numeric skills and accuracy.
· Problem solving and negotiating skills
· Task prioritisation
· Excellent telephone manner
· Some knowledge of import and export customs procedures for shipping outside the EU.
· Groupage road freight experience and ability to use weight / cube calculations
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Good attention to detail, this includes continuously monitoring shipments from point of receipt through to delivery
· Must be familiar with Word, Excel
· Good geographical knowledge
· Highly Focused person with ability to work unsupervised and to go that extra mile
Responsibilities
* Arranging import and export freight to EU and non EU countries by road
* Managing shipments.
* Working to deadlines
* General admin duties (passing suppliers invoices, PODs)
* Liaising with clients and suppliers via telephone and email
* Providing customer quotations via our internal software
* invoicing customers and estimating profits.
* Rate negotiation