DA - Trade Compliance and Customs Handling Specialist at Philips

Your primary focus is to drive the compliance to trade, customs export control regulations across supply chain and operations for the Philips DA products in South Africa. You own the local process and are responsible to liaise with different internal and external stakeholders to enable smooth import and export of products.

Further, your key responsibilities are to:

• Manage operational activities related to customs and Export Control
• Acts as helpdesk for internal customs inquiries  and provides functional support for Customs (system) internal and external
• At local level participates in customs audits and support in projects
• Export Control master data maintenance in SAP kernels (ECCN and SGI)
• Screening of transactional data on SPL and classification data (ECCN/SGI).
• Manage releasing the false blocks on SPL and missing classification data.
• Use PROTECT and GTS (export control tools).
• Coordinating Trade Compliance Specialist projects (SCM)
• Ensuring correct application and archiving and prepare/execute reports
• Executing trade compliance plan linked to SCM.
• Supporting role (Markets, BG’s, SVAL) for Goods Flow Control Board and FTA’s
• Drives continuous improvement in customs, export control and trade compliance
• Supports inbound and outbound activities of the DC
• Executes daily checks of interfaces between SAP/LSP systems
• Manage the warehouse and transport service providers
• Ensures stock in SAP is in line with the stock in WMS
• Coordinates the rework activities of stocks and stocks with product quality issues

You are a part of

This role is part of the DA commercial operations team Africa in Philips. The position reports to the head of commercial operations DA Africa, located in Johannesburg. You will be working closely with the South Africa operations team and 3rd party logistics & customs broker. You will be working in an international environment where cross functional teams are located across the world.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• 5+ years of working experience in operations and customs/trade compliance. Experience in an International working environment is required
• BSc in supply chain area and relevant customs training
• Advanced Customs knowledge around physical goods flows from supplier to the end customer
• Advanced knowledge on Trade Compliance, South African Customs rules and regulations.
• Ability to work independent
• Ability to prioritize and drive issues to closure based on business impact
• Ability to consult, influence and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally