Opening a new freight forwarding branch starts with the people who will build it. Freight Appointments recruits the branch managers, operators and salespeople who take a new location from an empty office to a profitable team.
A new branch has no team, no customers and often no premises. The first person you appoint has to find the office, win the first accounts and recruit the operators and sales team underneath them, usually with limited support from head office.
Many experienced branch managers have only ever run an established operation. Building one from scratch takes a different kind of leader, and hiring the wrong one can stall an expansion for months. Our branch start-up recruitment is built to find the people who have done it before, or who have the commercial drive and local network to do it now.
Gebrüder Weiss needed leaders who could open new US branches in key freight hubs. We recruited branch managers and start-up teams in El Paso, Miami, Laredo, Denver and Phoenix, making 23 placements across operational and leadership roles. Every branch start-up hire remains in place.
We engaged more than 100 freight forwarders to find leaders with US air and ocean freight experience who could take ownership of a new location from day one. What started as individual hires has become an ongoing partnership, with 18 placements made since December 2022 and more start-ups planned.
Expanding into a new city such as Houston, Hamburg or Melbourne means hiring without an existing local network. We already know the freight forwarding leaders in these markets, so we can approach proven branch managers before you advertise and build the team around them once they are in place.
When a major account needs local support, your new branch has to be ready quickly. We recruit branch managers and operators who can take on that customer’s freight from day one, while building the relationships to win new business in the area.
Many candidates have only managed an established branch. We assess whether a branch manager has opened or grown a location, recruited their own team and won business without an existing customer base, so you appoint someone who can build rather than simply run.
A new site with no leader is a cost with no return. We restart stalled branch start-ups by approaching passive candidates directly through our freight forwarding network, and can run the search confidentially under NDA to present two or three vetted candidates.
Multi-location expansion needs a recruitment partner who knows your business and the leaders who succeed with you. That is how our work with Gebrüder Weiss supported branch start-ups in El Paso, Miami, Laredo, Denver and Phoenix, with every start-up hire still in place.
Freight forwarders come to us at different stages of a branch start-up. Some have chosen the city and need a leader to open it. Others have a site ready and a search that has stalled.
Whatever the reason for your expansion, we recruit the branch managers and start-up teams who turn a new location into a trading branch, across the US, Germany, Benelux and Australia.
Experienced freight salespeople with a strong book of business are rarely on the market, and few will risk moving to a branch with no established customers. As well as approaching proven business development managers directly, we can help you identify commercially minded operators who already understand your freight and are ready to move into sales, giving your new branch a lower-risk route to building its commercial team.
We recruit specialist talent across aerospace, government and defence logistics, connecting employers with experienced professionals across sales, operations, compliance, management and senior leadership.
From inbound logistics to finished vehicle transportation, we help automotive logistics businesses recruit experienced professionals across commercial, operational, management and leadership roles.
We connect energy logistics businesses with professionals experienced in complex, time-sensitive and project-driven supply chains, from sales and operations through to senior management.
Our recruiters support freight forwarding businesses handling general cargo, helping them hire skilled professionals across air freight, ocean freight, sales, operations and leadership.
We recruit for technology and electronics logistics, connecting businesses with professionals experienced in high-value, sensitive and time-critical supply chains across commercial and operational roles.
We help pharmaceutical and healthcare logistics businesses recruit professionals with experience in temperature-controlled, regulated and time-sensitive supply chains across operations, sales and leadership.
From oversized cargo to complex global projects, we recruit experienced project logistics professionals across operations, business development, chartering, management and senior leadership.
We connect time-critical and expedited logistics businesses with professionals who understand urgent freight, specialist transport and high-pressure operations across sales, operations and leadership.
We recruit experienced freight brokerage and 3PL professionals across sales, account management, carrier sales, operations, branch management and executive leadership.
We help trucking companies and asset-based carriers recruit talent across transportation sales, dispatch, fleet operations, safety, terminal management and senior leadership.
From the branch manager who opens the doors to the coordinators who process its first shipments, we recruit every role a new freight forwarding branch needs across the US, Germany, Benelux and Australia.
The leaders who secure premises, recruit the team and own the P&L from day one. We look for branch managers with P&L exposure who can lead mixed sales and operations teams in a location that is still being built.
The commercial hires who win your new branch’s first customers. We recruit freight sales professionals who can open shipper relationships in a new market and build volume on the trade lanes your branch is there to serve.
The managers who set up processes, carrier relationships and service standards before volumes arrive. We source leaders with live forwarding management experience who can build an operation, not just maintain one.
The operators who keep freight moving once your branch starts trading. We recruit candidates with hands-on shipment control, documentation accuracy and carrier coordination experience who can work without an established team around them.
The specialists who keep a new branch compliant from its first clearance. We target qualified brokers and entry writers with active licences and proven compliance experience, which matters most when a branch has no in-house expertise to fall back on.
The hires who protect and grow the accounts your branch wins, price new business competitively and, as you add locations, oversee performance across several branches.
Tell us where you are opening, what freight the branch will handle and when you need to start trading. We will help you plan the hires and find the people to lead it.
Please note that any information provided is treated as strictly confidential.
