Hiring a customs specialist in Sevenoaks? We check the declarations experience first, then everything else.
Permanent forwarding hires should grow the accounts they inherit.
From port and Channel freight to retail distribution, employers around Sevenoaks compete hard for experienced permanent people. Across the South East, forwarders serve importers and exporters shipping through the M25, M3, M4, M20 and M23, Gatwick Airport and the ports at Southampton, Portsmouth and Dover.
Air freight, ocean freight, road groupage and customs brokerage need different specialists. We recruit each one differently.
The strongest forwarding candidates across the South East are usually already running desks for businesses such as retail and grocery distribution, port and Channel logistics, aerospace and FMCG supply chains and regional 3PLs.
Permanent forwarding roles matched to mode, lanes and systems.
Air, sea or road, import or export: we match forwarders to the work they have actually handled.
Good forwarders keep customers booking. We ask how they handled a delayed or held shipment.
Many forwarders are well known to their customers. We approach them discreetly.
Indicative permanent salaries in Sevenoaks run from around £26k for clerks up to £55k+ for branch managers.
Our pay advice uses current forwarding offers rather than old salary surveys. Figures are indicative, not a guarantee.
Modes, lanes, systems, customers and the gap the new hire needs to fill.
We arrange interviews and any technical test, then brief each candidate beforehand.
We stay in touch through the first months as the new forwarder takes over accounts.
Customers notice when their forwarder keeps changing. Continuity keeps them booking.
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 South East.
We check the modes, lanes and systems they have worked, the customs declarations they have handled and their right to work.
Yes. We recruit forwarding BDMs and ask about the business they have won, not just the targets they were set.
Yes. Our transport planning desk recruits planners, schedulers and transport managers.
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 South East:
Other specialisms in Sevenoaks:
See our national Freight Forwarding Recruitment page, or all logistics recruitment in Sevenoaks.
One brief covers a single operator or a team for a new branch.