Permanent freight forwarding and customs recruitment across the East Midlands.
Permanent forwarding hires should grow the accounts they inherit.
Gainsborough sits in the East Midlands — the spiritual home of UK 'big-shed' logistics, with DIRFT and Magna Park among the country's largest distribution clusters. Across the East Midlands, forwarders serve importers and exporters shipping through the M1, A14, A42 and A50, East Midlands Airport's major air-freight hub and DIRFT's rail terminal.
A forwarder who leaves after a few months takes customer relationships and carrier contacts with them.
Businesses at sites such as DIRFT, Magna Park and the SEGRO and Prologis parks along the M1 compete for the same experienced customs people, which pushes salaries up.
From junior operators to branch and business development managers.
Good forwarders keep customers booking. We ask how they handled a delayed or held shipment.
We benchmark salary, commission and bonus against the local market before the role goes out.
For a new branch or trade desk we can recruit the manager and the team together.
Indicative permanent salaries in Gainsborough run from around £26k for clerks up to £55k+ for branch managers.
Salary is only part of the offer. Candidates compare commission, bonus, hybrid working and the accounts they will run. 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 permanent forwarder builds relationships with your customers and carriers. That value grows with every shipment.
A realistic job description helps retention. We describe the workload and the customers as they are.
A strong forwarding brief covers:
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Yes. We recruit permanent air, sea and road forwarders, customs specialists and branch managers for businesses across the East Midlands.
We check the modes, lanes and systems they have worked, the customs declarations they have handled and their right to work.
Yes. We recruit customs compliance specialists and declarations agents for importers, exporters and brokers.
Yes. We can recruit the branch manager and the operators together so the branch trades from day one.
Yes. Our transport planning desk recruits planners, schedulers and transport managers.
Freight forwarding recruitment elsewhere in the East Midlands:
Other specialisms in Gainsborough:
See our national Freight Forwarding Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Gainsborough.
A short brief is enough to start: the modes, the systems and the start date.