Senior Customs Executive

Join Ligentia!

We’re looking for a Senior Customs Executive to join our Central Customs Team in Leeds.

This Senior Customs Executive role is a supervisory position, responsible for maintaining compliance with customs regulations and facilitating the smooth flow of goods for Ligentia’s clients. Key duties include supervising a team of Customs Executives, overseeing day-to-day activities, and ensuring SLAs are met.

This is a specialist role focused solely on customs operations, rather than end-to-end logistics. The role also offers opportunities to develop into customs consultancy projects.

Your Role:

• Customs Entries: Handling UK customs entries for import ocean shipments, including home use and simplified entries.
• Supervision: Overseeing a team of customs operators, managing day-to-day operations, and ensuring targets are met.
• Customer Interaction: Engaging in customs consultancy, providing guidance and support to customers, and ensuring compliance.
• Technical Tasks: Managing reclaims and amendments to customs entries, and potentially getting involved in customs warehousing.

What You’ll Need:

Essential

• Strong customs knowledge
• Team leadership/supervisory experience
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Good communication skills
• Ability to handle data accurately

Desirable

• Cargowise system knowledge
• Strong CPC Understanding (e.g., Customs Warehousing, IPR, OPR)

Our Working Environment

We offer a hybrid working environment, requiring on average 3 days a week from our Leeds office for collaboration and team meetings. This balance ensures you have the flexibility to work remotely while staying connected with your colleagues.

Why Ligentia? Why now?

Accelerated growth in one of the most dynamic industries you can imagine. Brilliant customers including some of the world’s leading retailers and best-known brands. A tech vision and roadmap that will turn heads for all the right reasons. And colleagues with high commitment and unrivalled knowledge, combined with low ego. A flexible work environment that is collaborative, stimulating and shares genuine feelgood for the work we do together. However you look at it, Ligentia is a great place to be right now.

Ready to join us?  Apply now!

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