We are actively looking to engage managerial professional across an air, sea and road background with a passion for freight forwarding and aviation shipping for a new role as a Freight Operations Director role in Leicestershire.
Client Details
My client is searching to provide large scale investment to increase their current freight forwarding offerings in the Midlands. The business is a market-leader in a multi-modal freight forwarder, operating on a franchise basis, and has offices based across the world (in Asia-Pacific, Far-East, the Americas and Europe). 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 providing freight forwarding solutions across UK & European road freight, air freight and sea freight.
Job Description
As an Operations Director you will report in to the Managing Director on a daily basis. You will have full responsibility for the new site at Leicestershire, Midlands along with the following areas:
* Manage a fast-paced, growing, operation of circa 25-35x freight import and export specialists who are responsible for bookings including pricing, quotations, end-to-end shipping and customs documentations.
* Managing a small customs and documentation team responsible for customs clearance, booking, BL, pre-alerts, etc.
* Full branch/site P&L responsibility including HR development and staff training. Alongside RT...