Import/Export Manager

Your tasks

• Compliance & Documentation: Ensure all shipments comply with local and international trade laws, tariffs, and licensing requirements. Prepare or verify invoices, bills of lading, and customs declarations.
• Logistics & Coordination: Coordinate transport schedules with customs brokers and shipping lines. Track active shipments and resolve border or port delays.
• Vendor & Stakeholder Management: Negotiate pricing, contracts, and service level agreements with international suppliers, carriers, and warehouses.
• Cost & Risk Management: Monitor import/export costs, calculate import cost prices and minimum export transfer prices and mitigate supply chain risks.
• Team Leadership: Supervise, train, and evaluate import/export coordinators, specialists, or customs clearance staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (an MBA or Master's will be an added advantage).
• Minimum of 6 years’ hands-on experience in international trade, freight forwarding, or exim operations.
• Mastery of Incoterms, customs tariff coding, ERP/logistics software, and regulatory frameworks.
• Strong negotiation, cross-cultural communication, problem-solving, and attention to detail.