General Manager Commercial, Freight Forwarding

General Manager Commercial, Freight ForwardingManchester 60,000 to 75,000 base, plus an uncapped quarterly bonus and long term incentive on branch EBIT On target earnings well into six figuresThe operation works. The rates are competitive. The service is measurably better than most of the market, and there is proof rather than assertion behind that claim.What is missing is somebody to go and get the business.The organisationA Manchester freight forwarding branch within an established, privately owned and profitable logistics group. The group has traded for well over a century, is conservatively financed, and operates accredited warehousing, storage and United Kingdom distribution alongside the freight business. The forwarding operation is comparatively new within the group and has been built deliberately, with a capable operational team, real customs expertise and strong carrier and agency relationships already in place.The proposition you will be sellingThis matters more than it usually does, because it is genuinely differentiated.The group is a haulier at heart, and that changes how it thinks about freight. A container can travel twelve thousand miles and still lose money in the final fifty, and this business understands that better than most forwarders because road freight is where it came from. It knows where unexpected cost appears, and it designs the movement to avoid it. On time delivery is actively measured and reviewed every week. Where a movement runs late, the ..... full job details .....