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Freight Forwarding Recruitment in Looe

Hiring a customs specialist in Looe? We check the declarations experience first, then everything else.

Devon & Cornwall

Customs and forwarding hiring across Looe

Experienced customs people rarely need to look for work. We approach them with the details that would make them move.

Freight across Devon & Cornwall moves through the A30, the A38, the A390, the M5 as far as Exeter and the ports at Plymouth and Falmouth. Forwarders who know those gateways quote and book with confidence.

A forwarding offer competes with every broker and carrier within reach. We help set salary and commission so it lands first time.

The strongest forwarding candidates across Devon & Cornwall are usually already running desks for businesses such as food and drink and agri-food processing, marine and port logistics, tourism-driven retail distribution and regional hauliers.

The roles we cover

Permanent roles on the forwarding desk

The people who quote, book and clear freight and the people who win it.

Why a specialist desk

Built around trade lanes and modes

Customer skills tested

Good forwarders keep customers booking. We ask how they handled a delayed or held shipment.

Discreet approaches

Many forwarders are well known to their customers. We approach them discreetly.

Through the first months

We keep in touch through notice periods and the first months, while a new forwarder learns your customers.

Salaries in the area

What forwarders and customs specialists earn in Looe

Indicative permanent salaries in Looe 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.

How it works

Our recruitment process

The search

We approach forwarders and customs specialists directly, including the ones who are not looking.

Technical screen

Modes, declarations, systems and right to work checked before the first interview.

Interviews

We arrange interviews and any technical test, then brief each candidate beforehand.

Your brief

Your hiring brief

An empty desk costs more than the advert: missed quotes, slower bookings and customers looking elsewhere.

Many branch managers started as operators. We recruit for every step of that career.

A strong forwarding brief covers:

  • The modes: air, sea, road or all three
  • Imports, exports or cross-trade
  • Customs declarations the role will handle
  • Your interview process and any technical test
Live vacancies

Permanent freight forwarding jobs in the South West

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Forwarding FAQs

Questions, answered

Do you recruit customs specialists?

Yes. We recruit customs compliance specialists and declarations agents for importers, exporters and brokers.

Can you recruit business development managers?

Yes. We recruit forwarding BDMs and ask about the business they have won, not just the targets they were set.

Do you recruit for port-based roles?

Yes. Tell us the port or airport and we will look for people who know its routines.

Do you also recruit transport planners?

Yes. Our transport planning desk recruits planners, schedulers and transport managers.

I am a freight forwarder. How do I find my next role?

Upload your CV and tell us your modes, lanes and systems. We contact you when a permanent role fits.

More forwarding pages

Related forwarding pages for Looe

Freight forwarding recruitment elsewhere in the South West:

Other specialisms in Looe:

See our national Freight Forwarding Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Looe.

Need a customs specialist?

Tell us about the desk

Share the role, the modes and the lanes and we will give you a view of the Looe market before the search starts.