Job Description
Position: Sea freight Pricing Operator
Location: Burton-On-Trent
Salary: 36,000
Hours: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week, 9:00 – 17:30 Monday to Friday
Are you a freight forwarding professional with experience providing sea freight pricing solutions for key customers?
Do you have experience dealing with sea freight operations including pricing, obtaining quotes and rates direct from shipping lines and carriers?
If so, this may be the right opportunity for you!
Our client is a leading, multi-national freight group that is experiencing a period of growth.
Sea Freight Pricing Operator Role:
The key focus of this role is to deliver support to UK Seafreight Product supporting Seafreight Senior Management with maintenance and distribution of cost pricing and efficient delivery of sales pricing to relevant stakeholders
Key Tasks and Responsibilities will include:
- Liaise with customers, other offices including overseas (internally and externally), agents, shipping lines and hauliers.
- To be the first point of contact and to action all incoming calls from all internal/external customers.
- Respond to all internal/external customer enquiries promptly and professionally and escalate where necessary
- Provide support and cover for other departments during absence periods as and when required
- Liaise with customers to formulate and provide Seafreight quotes in a timely manner
- To provide and maintain and in-depth understanding of the Seafreight product including Incoterms.
- To demonstrate a high quality of excellent service
- To analyse cbm and w/m variances whilst demonstrating a high level of attention to detail.
- To ensure you have knowledge of exchange rates and maintain your knowledge daily to ensure this is up to date.
About you:
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in Freight Forwarding – Multi-National company experience advantageous
- Sea freight operations and pricing experience
- Incoterms Knowledge
If you are ready to enhance your freight forwarding career with a value lead, leading freight group, we want to hear from you!
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WR Logistics are the recruitment partner for all vacancies in the logistics industry. We recruit UK wide for permanent and contract jobs.
WR is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
