Freight Manager

Role: Freight Manager 
Location: Corby - Hybrid 
 

Full Time Permanent 

Competitive Salary including excellent benefits package 

You could say that in this role you will be the freight bender, an all powerful member of the transport team who is the master of Road, Sea, and Air. Your domain will be our brilliant DC in Corby and without your knowledge and skills RS’s ability to be a global powerhouse in our industry won’t exist. 

As one of you key members in the team you will be personally responsible for ensuring that our customers get what they need, wherever they are in the world and by the most effective method. 

Our goal is to be the first choice for all our customers needs and we can’t do that with you being able to control all things freight. 

What will you be doing? 

As they freight manager you will have management of all of the movements of freight out of our DC’s (primarily in the UK & Germany) all around the globe, as well as oversight of freight movements in Asia & Pacific region.  

Primarily the freight manager will manage the relationships of our 3PLS and other suppliers to ensure that we are receiving the best possible service and are able to support our customers in the best way possible.  

A key part of your role will be reporting and using data to ensure we are identifying hot spots before they become issues. With this data you will be empowered to make decisions relating to: 

• Costs 

• Delivery on time to promise 

• Net Promotor Score 

• CO2 emissions relating to transport  

What do I need to be successful? 

The freight manager will need to be an excellent people person, not a people pleaser but certainly someone who builds relationships quickly and easily. You will also need to be the kind of person who can make tough decisions and have difficult conversations when needed. 

Other than that we are looking for: 

• Experience in a freight or Transport role with a European or Global remit. 

• Knowledge of transport planning  

• Knowledge of freight forwarding 

• Excellent communication skills 

• Account management and relationship management skills 

• Line Management and people development knowledge. 

Apply now and start your own freight journey with RS. 

What’s in it for you?    

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits, you’d expect from a FTSE listed company, including an annual performance bonus, private healthcare, and generous holiday, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced several new Family Friendly Policies including:   
   

• Help for people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring & consultation   

• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD and Tourette’s syndrome   

• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause   

• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery   

We are RS   

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.   

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.    

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.   

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.    

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.  

Come and join us and over 2,000 colleagues in the UK – and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.