Logistic Specialist - Global Trade Compliance

Workplace: Gdańsk

The Trade Compliance teams ensure that Amazon transactions satisfy legal requirements to file complete and accurate export and import declarations with local customs and other government authorities for international shipments. Global Trade Compliance (GTC) and Global Trade Counsel are responsible for procedures for assigning and reporting correct and accurate import and export classifications, customs values, and country or origin. These data elements are used by local customs, tax or other government authorities to determine, among other things, the rate of duty, the amount of duty and tax, and the exportability/admissibility of the shipment. Consequences of inaccurate declarations include delays, underpayment or overpayment of duties and taxes, fines or penalties, seizure, and revocation of import or export privileges.

The Trade Compliance team provides import and export classification to Amazon.com products by ensuring Amazon Inc is committed to comply with laws and regulations of the countries in which it conducts its business, and their respective import, export, trade, customs and other relevant agencies.

Key job responsibilities

Your responsibilities as a Specialist Trade Compliance may include:

• Auditing the results other audit teams are producing and ensure they achieve expected accuracy
• Auditing the results other audit teams are producing and ensure they achieve expected accuracy
• Working with Amazon supply chain and other stakeholders to streamline customs clearance
• Manually checking ASIN’s with HTS/ECCN codes based on business requirements
• Mentoring/training overall team to improve metrics (efficiency, quality) and progress to next level functionally by sharing knowledge
• Identifying gaps and encourage improvement/ optimization initiatives that work toward a metric improvement within processes/functions at site level
• Developing processes or tool components with documented SOPs for new processes or activities undertaken by the function

In addition to the core responsibilities listed above, you will be expected to take on a larger organizational role. These can include tasks such as:

• Responsibility for productivity, quality, and coverage metrics goals
• Analyzing data and being responsible for highlighting gaps, recommending solutions and influencing inter-function decisions
• Deep diving into a problem, performing root cause analysis, identifying constraints and recommending solutions to fix business problems
• Encouraging continuous improvement and documenting any issues/RCAs/action planning in functional area and own specific action or change recommended
• Training and mentoring new hires and other associates and suggest improvements to training
• Creating and maintaining SOPs and supporting documents that mandate for classification process
• Interacting with multiple stakeholders to communicate on processes and operations and represent data/metrics information and project reviews

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• University Degree
• 2+ years of experience in customs related operations, classification, with professional knowledge in Import & Export regulations, Free trade agreements (FTA), Country of origin (COO)
• Experience in Supply Chain Management, incl. Customs Clearance
• Good working knowledge of MS Office
• Good attention to details
• Ability to analyze and identify patterns in large data sets
• Decision making aptitudes based on given guidelines and in ambiguous contexts
• Be comfortable working with large data sets
• Very good knowledge and experience in internet navigation and research

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• MS Excel proficiency
• Retail industry experience
• B1 proficiency in any other EU language
• Experience leveraging technology to bring process improvements.
• Familiarity with SQL

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