Import Manager
United Electronics Company
Total des années d'expérience :17 years, 3 Mois
- Create and implement transport strategies for imports, aligning with supplier needs and complying with government regulations.
- Collaborate with suppliers, streamline international goods movement, ensure timely arrivals, and secure optimal freight rates.
- Oversee and execute customs, SASO, and government security programs while ensuring compliance with customer procedures.
- Provide all insurance on shipments and design and execute all corrective action plans for processes.
- Collaborating with various departments, including sales, finance, and logistics, to ensure seamless import processes and timely delivery.
- Managing customs clearance processes, ensuring all required documentation is accurate and submitted on time.
- Staying updated on international trade trends, tariffs, and trade agreements that may impact import operations.
- Identifying opportunities for process improvement and cost savings in import operations.
- Assist to prepare all import quotes and perform all shipment bookings with carriers.
- Execute the End-to-End transportation of goods and offering consolidated services in coordination with suppliers, freight forwarding agents, shipping lines and transportation agents.
- Relevant knowledge for SABER & FASAH platforms and other government regulatory authorities.
- Design all SOPs for import department and ensure compliance to the guidelines, KPI and reports to higher management.
- Negotiated freight, transportation, and customs clearance costs, while also managing and renewing contracts as needed to facilitate effective trading, operations, and implementation.
- Formulated departmental guidelines and oversaw import and export operations for Hoshanco Group in Riyadh, working with suppliers from Fareast, Europe, and the USA.
- Created SOPs for general operations.
- Handled documentation and online forms to ensure cost-effective and legal execution of import/export operations.
- Possessed knowledge of applicable laws and procedures, tariffs, duties, licenses, and restrictions.
- Maintained communication with authorities, suppliers, and customers across territories to ensure efficient, positive, and lawful relations, support, and activities.
- Collaborated with various departments to establish and sustain effective import/export activities, providing support for the organization's purchasing, planning, sales, and overall operations.
- Negotiated freight, transportation, and customs clearance costs, while also managing and renewing contracts as needed to facilitate effective trading, operations, and implementation.
- Oversaw, examined, and conveyed trends, outcomes, and recommendations to senior management through reporting and analysis.
- SAP usage knowledge.
- Execute the End-to-End transportation of goods and offering consolidated services in coordination with suppliers, freight forwarding agents, shipping lines and transportation agents.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Controlled overall Sea/Air/Land freight operation supervision during the tenure in the branches Jeddah & Riyadh.
- Monthly analysis of volume and income, followed by report presentations.
- Identify and implement effective and appropriate shipment routes and methods for transporting freight and recommend shipping solutions that minimize cost and time.
- Carry out the transportation of goods from their origin to the warehouse and all intermediate stops, providing integrated services through air, sea, and land transportation.
- Handled Marine Insurance, Fumigation, DGR Goods, Export Packing & Moving.
- Supervised the daily Import/Export operations & procedures.
- Created SOPs for general operations and maintained the Service Level Agreement.
- Design and execute all corrective action plans for processes.
- Drive cost effective initiatives to improve the performance and costs on operation.