Freight Handler

**Freight Co-ordinator / Sales**

**Job Role**: Freight Co-ordinator / Sales

**Working Hours**: Monday - Friday, 8am - 4:30pm. Saturday, 10am - 4pm (2 in 4).

**Pay**: £11 - £15 per hour depending on experience

**Location**: Leicester (LE1/LE2), 2 sites.

**Contract**: Full Time, Permanent

**Benefits**: 28 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays), Pension, Wellness bonuses, Saturday bonus and Quiz bonuses.

**The Role**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Freight Co-ordinator based in Leicester. This will be either at our warehouse office (LE1) or main office site (LE2).
- Duties & Responsibilities_
- Get rates from suppliers which you can then turn into a quote for a customer.
- Entering these rates into an excel based rate management spreadsheet
- Learn and understand the concept of air/sea freight so you can sell our product with confidence.
- Turn a quote into a sale and provide follow ups with clients and suppliers.
- Build your own client base of personal and commercial clients.
- Deal with customer phone calls.
- Deal with face to face enquiries.
- Clear and respond to WhatsApp enquiries constantly.
- Understand how air/sea freight works and how it links in with all the other services we provide. Be able to process and up sell our other services.
- Contact suppliers to negotiate the best possible prices.
- Liaise with marketing team to market your product through direct and indirect channels.
- Work on your own or part of a team to promote our products.
- Understand measurements, currency conversions, dimensions and volume calculations to ensure rates are correctly calculated and logged. Ensure selling prices are working against the correct margins based on the customer requirements.
- Hands on; be able to pack and potentially load and unload goods.
- Create and maintain a cost price spreadsheet using Excel.
- Formulate sales reports and strategies.
- Liaise with the CEO on projects and ideas to increase workflow and sales.
- Understand the dynamic of the work we do, our clients and our vision. Constantly learning and coming up with your own ideas to help company growth.

Training will be given, but it’s up to you to pioneer yourself and develop. Once we recognise your hunger and strengths, the sky’s the limit in terms of progression.
- Essential_
- Have some knowledge of air/sea freight, geography, ports, containers, etc.
- Minimum 1 years Sales experience.
- Excellent telephone manner. You will be liaising with suppliers, customers and managers constantly.
- Be able to manage your own workload and meet targets in a busy hectic environment.
- Computer Literate and can work on different systems including Microsoft office.
- Desirable_
- Have previously worked within a shipping company.
- Previous experience in a similar role.
- 3-5 years sales experience.
- Have your own transport.

**Company Overview**

Apex Cargo is an award winning freight forwarding company, originally established in the 1990s under the name of Apex Shipping. A family run business that initially began life as an importer / exporter of yarn and fabrics, as well as frequent movements of air cargo to Malawi and Saudi Arabia.

Our headquarters are based in the thriving and diverse community of Evington, Leicester, with a warehouse located in the heart of the city centre. We have representative offices in Malawi and more recently Zambia, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Our service range now covers the whole globe, offering air, sea and road services as well as storage, drop shipping, customised packaging solutions, purchasing, sourcing and a variety of other shipping related services.

As the first name that comes to mind when quality and service are mentioned, we are very proud of our reputation and not only strive to maintain it, but go above and beyond expectation, and to consistently improve it.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: £11.00-£15.00 per hour

Expected hours: 35 - 48 per week

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Company pension
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme
- Performance bonus
- Yearly bonus

Work Location: In person