Company description
Growing Freight Forwarder based in Thatcham offering all modes of transport including customs
Job description
The Role
The role is office based in Thatcham, the job will be varied but will focus mainly on the day-to-day freight forwarding operation including quoting, booking and managing a transport movement from start to finish.
This will involve but is not limited to:
- Raising and arranging customs clearances
- Managing booking slots with suppliers and receivers
- Keeping customers fully updated on the status of their movement
- Creating and updating bookings on our Freight Management Software
- The role will require constant communication by telephone and email to our customers and hauliers in order to provide an exceptional logistics service.
Key Requirements
- Positive and solution based approach to work
- Excellent customer service skills
- Confident communicating via both phone and email
- Proven experience in Freight Forwarding or similar
- Previous use of Microsoft office packages in a work environment
- Be able to learn new IT systems quickly and accurately
- Be a team player that is focused on delivering the best possible customer experience
- UK National or right to work in the UK essential, no visa can be offered.
Benefits & Features
- Competitive salary with annual performance based bonus
- Generous holiday allowance
- Weekly office fruit, drinks and snack deliveries
- Company pension
- On-site parking as well as being 30 seconds from Thatcham Train Station
- Opportunity to join a rapidly growing and extremely successful team
- Access to company healthcare plan subject to performance
We can offer both stability and the opportunity for progression as we prefer to promote from within. We are a hard working team, yet still offer a fun and relaxed environment to work in.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £30,000.00-£36,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounted or free food
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
Experience:
- Logistics: 1 year (required)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person