Join an industry-leading customs brokerage with over 100 years of experience, knowledge, and success!
We are a family-owned and operated BC company, providing customs brokerage, freight, and consulting services since 1917. We help our clients navigate the rules and regulations of customs compliance, making their importing experience as seamless as possible. We also help our clients transport their goods, both for import and export. We serve a wide variety of industries, including Steel, Coffee, Apparel, Food, Film & Entertainment, Hardware and Manufacturing, and Conventions & Tradeshows.
Company paid medical, dental, eyecare, life and disability insurance
Complimentary on-site fitness facility
Company paid career development courses
Remote-work opportunities
Leadership to help you reach your full potential
Current Openings
Freight Coordinator
Vancouver, Canada (In-Office, Remote, Hybrid)
This new position will be responsible for helping to coordinate our rapidly expanding freight services. We have a diversified portfolio of loyal clients to whom we are entrusted to provide customs brokerage services. We have provided freight services to these clients on a limited scale, which we are now expanding.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Book freight transactions and monitor all movements to ensure highest level of customer service.
- Develop promotional materials and a strategic plan to develop our freight service offering, including the identification of potential freight customers, suitable modes of transport and routes to target.
- Develop relationships with carriers in each mode of transport, to negotiate best prices for our clients.
- Win freight business, ideally long-term bookings.
Education & Experience:
- 2+ years of related experience in freight forwarding primarily North American road trucking.
- Strong organizational and time management skills are needed
- Goal-oriented, positive, and friendly demeanor to represent our century-old company with integrity.
- Entrepreneurial spirit to own the development of this department.
- Familiar with sales prospecting, negotiating, closing techniques, and most importantly relationship management. You will be selling additional services to existing, long-time, loyal customers, where the relationship is everything.
Compensation:
- Commensurate with experience
Can’t find the opportunity that fits best for you?
We’re always on the lookout for great candidates! Fill out the application form below and note the role that you’re most interested in pursuing. A member of our management team will get in touch as soon as they can.