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Forwarding manager
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
Technicians and associate professionals
Business and administration associate professionals
Business services agents
Clearing and forwarding aents
Other occupations of the professional group
Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?
Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès
Clearing and forwarding aents
38
Number of contracts in Barcelonès
76,00%
Percentage of contracts in Catalonia
40,74% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès
76,32%
Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès
13,16%
Part-time contracts
1,03% Turnover index
25
Average of job seekers in Barcelonès
27%
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.
Business and administration associate professionals
61%
39%
Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia
Contracts by age groups.
Business and administration associate professionals
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
Business services agents
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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?
Clearing and forwarding aents
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.
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