Long-established independent road freight forwarder with expertise within the Italian, Spanish and Portuguese markets now seeks an experienced European Road Freight Forwarder for their offices in Dublin 11.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Execute European Road Forwarding operations to ensure all transactions are processed timely and accurately in line with company procedures and expectations.
- Handle and update EDI from agents, checking and updating agents for any requirements that they may have and need to adhere to.
- Manage relations and services with existing partners and further identify and bring new opportunities.
- Maintain and facilitate good working relations with agents, update them with consistent information and build a good repour with our agents
- Ensure up-to-date and accurate information for our customers with good planning and organising of timely deliveries/collections
- Review new agent opportunities and make recommendations to the senior management team.
- Ensure correct procedures are agreed and implemented for the management of business requirements, in particular, collections all over mainland Europe and to ensure they are followed up and cargo is loaded without problems
- Agree, where required, specific pricing or services, full loads/part loads / miscellaneous
- Be proficient at loading containers, maximising loading and attention to detail is key
Key Requirements:
- 3 years proven European freight planning and freight forwarding experience.
- Independent, self-motivated and responsible.
- Knowledge of the Azyra freight system would be a bonus along with strong Excel skills.
- Team player with excellent problem-solving ability.
- Strong communication skills, written & verbal with fluency in English.
- Excellent numerical skills
- Ability to work unrestricted by work permit time restrictions.
Terms:
Full-time permanent, office-based
Package:
€40,000 - €55,000 depending on experience.
For a confidential discussion on this or any other current opportunity please contact Garvan Cerasi
IAC-Nov23