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Job Position: Import and Export Executive
Employment type: Permanent
Posted date: 2025-04-07
Deadline date: 2025-05-05
Recruiter: Saria Consultancy
Job Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Category: Logisitc, Procurment and Supply Chain
Current Salary: Negotiable
Career Level: Middle Level
We are seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Import and Export Executive to manage and oversee the import and export processes for our company. This role involves coordinating international shipments, ensuring compliance with customs regulations, managing documentation, and liaising with suppliers, vendors, and internal teams. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of international trade laws, excellent organizational skills, and a passion for ensuring smooth logistics operations.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Oversees the preparation of letters of credit, bills of loading, license agreements, and other correspondence and coordinates other paperwork necessary to comply with the customs regulations;
- Calculates duties, tariffs, price conversions, weight, and volume of merchandise exported and imported.
- Handle Purchasing insurance, typing permit, getting bank permits,
- Update the payment status to the supplier, give the proper instruction about documentation requirements to the supplier,
- Collect a validated full set of shipping documents from the bank and from the client and transfer for custom clearance,
- Responsible for setting up and systematizing everything from contracts, export documentation, handling communication with government authorities, shipping line and various vendors;
- Ensure that LC terms are complied with, and export proceeds are collected timely.
- Identifying, contacting and establishing strong working relationships with buyers, suppliers, brokers, forwarders, transport companies, banks and other involved parties.
- Making sure that the company follows the relevant government rules and regulations in its activities;
- Manage communication with export authorities, banks and shipping lines for all required documents for our exports;
- Produced all required documents for each shipment and monitored shipments to guarantee on-time delivery;
- Create reports of all ongoing shipments to be presented on weekly
Skills & Abilities
- Excellent understanding of information systems technology;
- strong communications skills and basic computer skills;
- Good understanding of sales and marketing strategies;
- great understanding of domestic and world economy;
- Ability to easily understand and organize shipment processes;
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail;
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
Academic qualification
- BA in logistics, Procurement and Supply Management/Business Management or related fields
Years of experience: Minimum of 4+ years of experience in a comparable position;
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