Customs Supervisor

Salary: £42,000 per year

My client, a leading freight forwarder, is looking to recruit a Customs Supervisor for its office in Sheffield.

Role: Customs Supervisor

Location: Sheffield

Hours: Monday to Friday 9 am to 5.30 pm

Salary: up to £42,000 plus £5k bonus

Industry: Customs/freight forwarding

THE ROLE

You will be directly responsible for the compliant production of UK import declarations, UK export declarations and the preparation of their corresponding French Import Declaration as produced by the branch team. The information required to prepare and perform those declarations is managed directly within the company’s Transport Management System (TMS), Leonardo and input into Leonardo either directly by the UK exporting client or the Account Management and Customer Service teams in the branch.

This is where you come in:

Each day you will take responsibility for ensuring the branch personnel are adhering to the prescribed process and are performing the task to the highest level of compliance.

You will be required to speak to customers proactively, to assist them with their queries, sharing your knowledge and expertise and instilling customer confidence. You may be required to do this independently or with the Branch or Account Manager, as the circumstance dictates.

You will be required to trouble-shoot, problem solve and proactively manage the compliance of the entire process within the branch, working with all necessary elements of the Road Business to deliver compliance with the overall objective of achieving 100% compliance for all declarations created.

Our Ideal Person:

The following skills will be beneficial to a candidate looking to apply for this role:

* +3 years’ operational customs experience, ideally at supervisory level, in a freight forwarding, customs broker, customs agency or the customs department inside your business’ environment.

* Excellent practical knowledge of customs processes and regimes at an operational level.

* Excellent standard of communication both written and verbal.

* People person, who can clearly communicate ideas, concepts and processes both internally including customers and suppliers.

* Demonstration of a detailed understanding of key principles for the role e.g. import/export procedures, tariff classification and duty structures, valuation, origin, export controls and specialist regimes (for example, CFSP, IPR, OPR or similar).

* Demonstrate a detailed understanding of how industries, other countries and other disciplines impact trade flows and processes, including but not limited to: imports, exports, supply chain security programs/requirements)

* Demonstrate strong knowledge relating to customs compliance.

* Working effectively as part of a team, with a strong ethic to support and help in order to achieve team objectives as well as individual role objectives.

* A strong sense of responsibility and a hands-on approach – always striving to get the job done to satisfaction.

* Interpersonal, analytical, problem-solving and communication skills.

* Well-organized working methods and the ability to communicate complex issues in simplistic language.

* You have an open, enthusiastic and flexible mindset and are used to working in a fast-paced, dynamic, results-driven environment.