Hiring a customs specialist in Dudley? We check the declarations experience first, then everything else.
Customs errors are expensive. We recruit people who get the declaration right first time.
Logistics around Dudley is powered by the Golden Triangle's big-shed distribution and a deep automotive and manufacturing supply chain. We recruit the forwarders and customs specialists who keep that trade moving.
When the Dudley market is thin for forwarding talent, we look further along the commute and consider hybrid patterns for desk roles.
Forwarding roles across the West Midlands support trade through the M6, M5, M42 and M40, Birmingham Airport and strong rail-freight connections.
The people who quote, book and clear freight and the people who win it.
We ask which booking and customs systems candidates use every day, so there is no hidden learning curve.
Good forwarders keep customers booking. We ask how they handled a delayed or held shipment.
We keep in touch through notice periods and the first months, while a new forwarder learns your customers.
Indicative permanent salaries in Dudley run from around £26k for clerks up to £55k+ for branch managers.
Candidates weigh the whole package: salary, commission, hours and the quality of the customer base. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
We ask about any restrictions in a candidate's current contract before an offer is made.
We help settle salary, commission and start date so the offer is accepted first time.
We stay in touch through the first months as the new forwarder takes over accounts.
A forwarder who knows a customer's history avoids the mistakes that lose accounts.
Forwarders who leave early often cite workload, weak systems or no route to account management. We raise all three first.
A strong forwarding brief covers:
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Yes. We recruit customs compliance specialists and declarations agents for importers, exporters and brokers.
Yes. We recruit forwarding BDMs and ask about the business they have won, not just the targets they were set.
Yes. We cover businesses across the West Midlands. Tell us where the office is and we will search the commute around it.
Yes. We can recruit the branch manager and the operators together so the branch trades from day one.
Yes. For branch manager roles we run a discreet search and approach people who are not on the market.
Freight forwarding recruitment elsewhere in the West Midlands:
Other specialisms in Dudley:
See our national Freight Forwarding Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Dudley.
Tell us what a strong forwarder looks like on your desk and we will find more of them.