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Forwarding manager

Latest available data: June 2025 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Export manager Forwarding manager Forwarding supervisor Freight forwarding agent Freight forwarding manager Freight forwarding, head Head of freight forwarding Logistics line manager

Forwarding managers plan and organise cargo shipments within national and international areas. They communicate with carriers and negotiate the best way to send the cargo to its destination which can be a single customer or a point of distribution. Forwarding managers act as experts in supply chain management. They know and apply the rules and regulations for each specific type of cargo and communicate the conditions and costs to the clients.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Carrying out customs clearing procedures for exports or imports;
(b) Ensuring that insurance is in order;
(c) Ensuring that export/import licences and other formalities are in order;
(d) Signing and issuing bills of lading;
(e) Checking import/export documentation to determine cargo contents, and classifying goods into different fee or tariff groups, using a tariff coding system.

Knowledge

  • Management and administration
  • Transport services

Digital competencies

  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Negotiating and managing contracts and agreements
  • Collaborating and liaising
  • Managing transport and logistics activities

Digital competencies

No skills and knowledge of the occupation have been found. Only skills and knowledge relevant and requested by companies in their job offers are displayed.

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Leading others
  • Supporting others
  • Communicating
  • Collaborating in teams and networks

Professional groups of the occupation

Managers

Production and specialized services managers

Manufacturing, mining, construction and distribution managers

Supply, distribution and related managers

Do you want to know what the hiring rate for this occupation is in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Supply, distribution and related managers

24

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

66,67%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

-20,00% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

91,67%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

8,33%

Part-time contracts

1,04% Turnover index

21

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

-9%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Production and specialized services managers

65%

35%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Production and specialized services managers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Manufacturing, mining, construction and distribution managers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Supply, distribution and related managers

No experience
10%
Less than 1 year
23%
Between 1 and 2 years
12%
Between 2 and 4 years
32%
Between 4 and 8 years
5%
More than 8 years
18%
Administrative and support service activities
26%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
20%
Transportation and storage
14%
Manufacturing
11%
Information and communication
7%
Others
22%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.