Description
We are seeking a Customs Manager to lead customs activity and manage two Customs Analysts. The successful candidate will own customs declaration processes, procedures, systems and data, including duty payments and reconciliations, and ensure compliance with customs legislation across relevant goods movements.
The Customs team sits within Finance and helps move goods in a compliant, efficient and well-controlled way. Working across Tax and Treasury, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Logistics and business change, the team protects value through effective risk management, sustainable duty optimisation and reliable customs data.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading governance for customs valuation, tariff classification and origin
- Identifying sustainable opportunities to optimise duty
- Providing practical advice on sourcing, suppliers, logistics and new routes
- Managing relationships with customs authorities, brokers, advisers and auditors
- Embedding customs requirements into business and technology change
- Improving management information and automation
- Building customs capability across the team and wider stakeholder community
The ideal candidate will have:
- A relevant customs or tax qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience leading customs activity
- Practical knowledge of UK customs legislation and practice covering tariff classification, valuation, origin, declarations and customs authorisations
- Proven experience of leading customs compliance and risk management within a large or complex importing organisation
- Evidence of managing customs authority audits or enquiries and working with customs brokers, external advisers or logistics partners
- Demonstrable experience of leading colleagues and embedding customs requirements into supply-chain, systems or business change
We offer a competitive salary plus benefits, including:
- Colleague discount of 10% on shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary
- Annual holiday allowance
- Private healthcare
- Season ticket loans
- Interest-free car loan of up to £10k
- Cycle to work scheme
- Health cash plans
- Salary advance
- Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers
- Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave