Are you an experienced Road/Land Freight Operator looking for a career with a growing global business? In our relatively short time in the UK we have enjoyed remarkable success and as we look to strengthen our operations teams across the UK we are on the hunt for an experienced Road Freight Operator to join our Basildon branch. Here you will be responsible within a team to coordinate and organise the full range of road freight services such as pricing, import/export clearance, bookings, and stakeholder management. You will receive extensive internal and external training as well as an online training for customs legislation and foreign trade, as well as daily support. For over 40 years, we have served our clients with our Air, Ocean, Road, and Warehousing portfolio and we have enjoyed another very successful year at cargo-partner having strengthened our global position by joining the Nippon Express Group. At cargo-partner, we believe in comprehensive training, loyalty, and internal promotion to help our staff reach their full potential and our operations management team are there to support you in your personal development and give you the tools to build a successful career in the freight forwarding industry. Who are we? cargo-partner are a global info-logistics provider offering a comprehensive portfolio of air, sea, land transport and warehousing solutions. With nearly 40 years expertise in information technology and supply chain optimization, we design tailor-made services for a wide range of industries to create competitive benefits for our customers all around the world. We are a diverse workforce with over 160 offices in more than 40 countries across the globe with new locations having already opened this year as we look to continue our growth. Responsibilities: · Calculating road freight quotations and emailing to the customers. · Reporting quotation successes to Inside Sales (Amy). · Loading bookings into the FCL system. · Seeking the most cost effective domestic collection/delivery costs and booking with UK hauliers and pallet networks. · Completing export and import customs entries. · Completing export T1 documents. · Building export groupage trailers and completing export documentation. · Liaising with the warehouse regarding the loading/unloading of trailers, labelling and cargo discrepancies. · Liaising with cargo-partner in Europe regarding customs clearances, deliveries, collections and discrepancies. · Providing shipment updates to clients. · Requesting and providing POD’s. · Negotiating costs with suppliers. · Preparing each shipment/file for invoicing. Desired skills: · Strong customer-facing and interaction skills with high-level of customer orientation · Experience working in a similar road operations or pricing role · Team engagement and support · The desire to progress within an international company · The ability to work under pressure to strict deadline · Support and live company values What we can offer: · 25 days holiday bank holidays · Access to our EAP Scheme which offers discounts for medical, eyesight and chiropody · Free parking · Full training will be provided for you to enter the exciting world of Freight Forwarding · Stability of employment working with a true international logistics business · Opportunity to progress through the business · A great team dynamic with a supportive and friendly culture