Freight Operations Supervisor

We are actively looking to engage shipping, freight and road transport professionals with as passion for freight forwarding for a new role as a Freight Operations Supervisor in Leicester!

Client Details

My client is a market-leader in the freight & shipping industry and has offices based across the world (in Italy, Croatia, France and the UK). 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 Freight Operations Supervisor you will report in to the Freight Branch Manager on a daily basis. You will be responsible for the following areas for responsibility across the Leicester office:

• Managing a small team of 12 specialist freight forwarders across air, sea and road freight.
• Overseeing the team responsible for preparing road, air and sea 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 transport through third party transit means - such as full loads, part loads, courier, air freight, sea freight and dedicated transport.
• Providing valid insurance for the vehicles - trucks and trailers
• Providing appropriate transportation means with adequate load capacity and regulations around ADR via road freight.
• Handling customs entries 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, sea or road freight forwarding industry with a bias towards either road freight. The ideal Freight Operations Supervisor will have the following skills and experience:

• 3+ year's experience in freight forwarding in either road or air freight.
• Experience leading or managing teams within a freight forwarding or shipping environment.
• Experience of pricing, quotation and planning customer deliveries across road, air & sea freight.
• Desirable experience of customs compliance
• Excellent customer service experience
• Knowledge of INCOTerms is advantageous
• Commutable to Leicester on a daily basis

Whats On Offer?

• 38,000- 45,000
• 32 ays annual leave
• Comprehensive company benefits account.
• World-class training & development and large opportunities to progress.