European Freight Forwarding Coordinator. Yorkshire LilyLifestyle

Our client is a well-established freight forwarder with a base in North Yorkshire. Offering a worldwide freight forwarding services by air, road and sea and Warehouse and distribution from this site. With a well-established team of 15 our client is planning to continue to invest and expand the business either organically or by further acquisitions.

We are now looking to recruit a European Operations Freight Forwarding Clerk to join the successful team at their freight office near York.

• Extensive client liaison, building relationships and maximising the potential of the European Road freight client's business.
• Extensive supplier liaison to develop reliable and cost-effective European services.
• Calculating freight quotations for export and import freight shipments.
• Completing operational administration including job cards and sending booking confirmation to the suppliers.
• Raising all of the appropriate operational documentation including customs clearance formalities.
• Managing the European road freight consignments in transit through to successful completion and delivery.
• Invoicing out and completing the job files.

• Experience in forwarding in European Road Freight Forwarding.
• An understanding of the post Brexit European customs clearance requirements.
• Confident and clear communication skills.
• Proven success of building customer and supplier relationships.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Numerate with experience of calculating freight quotations.
• Good IT (Microsoft) skills.

• Salary 30,000 to 35,000
• Pension
• Plus 22 days holiday to start