European Road Freight Co-ordinator

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 European Road Freight Co-ordinator in Derbyshire! 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