A US direct-hire recruitment desk for freight, customs and international logistics talent. Long briefs, properly vetted shortlists, one named consultant.
FM International CE runs permanent recruitment for the US international logistics industry. Our briefs come from customs houses, freight forwarders, NVOCC operators, third-party logistics providers, importers and exporters with their own desks, and the trade-compliance leads inside US shippers and receivers. The roles range from entry-level import coordinators on a 8-to-5 desk pattern through to trade-compliance directors with full audit-defense responsibility.
The team has run searches in this space for over a decade. We work US-wide and our network reaches across the major port corridors, FTZs, bonded warehouses, customs houses, and the airfreight gateways at JFK, ORD, ATL, MEM, MIA, LAX, SFO, SEA and DFW.
The person who picks up your call runs your search end to end. No researcher in the back room. No handover when you sign the contract. The phone number you dial first is the phone number you dial all the way through to the day-90 check-in.
We sit in the briefing call long enough to understand the trade lanes, the cargo profile, the technology stack, the compliance posture and the make-or-break qualities. We would rather take a fortnight to deliver three good candidates than a week to deliver eight average ones.
The same compliance teams we serve live and die by paperwork. So do we. Customs Broker Licences, NCBFAA designations, IATA/CASS, ITAR familiarity, OFAC, AES filer credentials and right-to-work all confirmed before a CV reaches you.
Send CVs we have not vetted. Inflate salary expectations to win the brief. Pretend a candidate is two weeks away when we can see they are six. Pull a candidate from one of your competitors without their explicit, written consent. Run a search where we do not believe the salary band attracts a strong candidate.
Operations directors, trade-compliance leads, customs managers and HR business partners at US international logistics operators who want one named consultant who knows their cargo profile. SMEs, mid-market and the US arms of multinational forwarders and shippers all sit comfortably with us.
Every permanent placement comes with a 12-week replacement guarantee. If a hire does not stay, we re-run the search at no additional fee. The terms are written into the engagement letter, not buried in T&Cs.