Customs Specialist
Customs Specialist
At the BMW Group, everything starts with passion. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives us to keep reinventing mobility and bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a team into a strong unit where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work unite that we can shape the future together.
What awaits you:
• Coordinate all customs-related issues for the production material, non-series material, machinery, and equipment during the ramp-up of the battery production plant.
• Prepare and process all import documentation necessary for the customs broker, managing the complete import process to ensure availability of the products in time at the lowest possible cost.
• Collaborate with different departments within the plant to ensure all import documentation and restrictions are met.
• Track shipments and manage the customs clearance at different ports of entry.
• Communicate status, delays to appropriate parties.
• Resolve shipment issues and escalate to management for resolution when needed.
• Collaborate with the logistics and transportation departments, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and government agencies.
• Ensure that all legal framework and organizational policies are followed.
• Handle all post-entry amendments.
• Calculate required funding to process payments of import duties.
What you should bring along:
• Bachelor's degree in international business, foreign trade logistics, or a related field (e.g., Supply Chain Management, International Relations, Administration).
• 2+ years of previous work experience in import operations and export operations. Automotive industry knowledge is preferred.
• Proficient in English (fluent spoken and written)
• Detail-oriented, organized, and able to prioritize tasks.
• Ability to work independently.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Knowledge of customs documentation and customs processes is needed.
• Teamwork oriented.
• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
• High result and quality orientation.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office and preferably relevant ERP (SAP).
• Knowledge in MIC or other Trade Management System is preferred.
Are you motivated and would you like to shape tomorrow's mobility with us? - Apply now!
At the BMW Group, we see diversity and inclusion in all its dimensions as a strength for our teams. Equal opportunities are a particular concern for us, and the equal treatment of applicants and employees is a fundamental principle of our corporate policy. That is why our recruiting decisions are also based on personality, experience and skills.
Find out more about diversity at the BMW Group at: bmwgroup.jobs/diversity
