DHL Global Forwarding
Road Freight Specialist
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Role Overview
As a Road Freight Specialist, you will play a key role in the planning and coordination of European road freight movements. Working closely with hauliers and internal stakeholders, you will ensure transport activities are carried out safely, efficiently and cost-effectively whilst delivering excellent service levels.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and coordinating daily road freight operations to meet customer requirements.
- Optimising routes, vehicle utilisation and transport schedules to maximise efficiency.
- Liaising with hauliers and internal stakeholders regarding shipment status and operational requirements.
- Liaising with hauliers and transport partners to support RFQ activities, ensuring competitive pricing, capacity availability and successful business wins.
- Monitoring transport performance against service and cost targets.
- Ensuring all transport activities comply with legal, regulatory and company requirements, including drivers' hours and transport legislation.
- Managing and updating transport management systems accurately and efficiently.
- Supporting continuous improvement initiatives to enhance operational performance.
- Identifying and resolving service issues proactively and professionally.
- Managing transport-related administration, financial controls and cost monitoring.
- Supporting volume growth and profitability objectives set by management.
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with carriers and service providers.
Skills and Experience
- Experience of customs processes and documentation for UK and European road freight movements.
- Experience of transport billing and invoicing.
- Good administrative and organisational skills.
- Results driven with a high attention to detail.
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Ability to prioritise tasks and use own initiative.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
- High level of IT skills.
- Good knowledge of Windows, Word, Excel.
- Minimum of 5 x GCSE passes including English and Maths.
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Benefits
- A competitive salary.
- Generous holiday entitlement.
- Eligibility to participate in the Employee Incentive Bonus Scheme.
- Pension scheme which includes life assurance.
- Access to professional employee assistance and wellbeing programme.
- A competitive package of voluntary benefits including retail, entertainment, gym membership, cycle to work scheme, contribution to eye care costs, and many more discounts.
- Training and Development opportunities with a strong focus on internal promotion.
HOURS: 37.5 hours per week
Please note: Due to the nature of our business we are regulated by the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority), therefore it is compulsory for all applicants once offered employment to provide a full 5 year employment history. Additionally, we are required to carry out a Criminal Record Check.
What’s Next?
If you would like to be considered for this position, then please apply via our careers website with a copy of your CV outlining your experience to date and suitability for the role.
About DHL Global Forwarding
DHL Global Forwarding (DGF) is part of the DHL Group. While the DHL Group employs more than 580,000 people globally, DGF has around 31,000 freight forwarding experts in more than 190 countries around the world, with around 1,000 of us based in the UK across 15 Sites. As the experts in Freight Forwarding since 1815, we are the global specialists in Air, Ocean and Rail Freight.
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