Supervisor: Shipping

**Purpose**:
**Responsibilities**:
**Logistics Management**
- Pre-classify products for import to ensure correctness.
- Structure products to save on duties or Ad valorem to gain competitive advantage.
- Document control as per Customs Act to allow for ease of Auditing by SARS.
- Manage logistics service providers (LSP) i.e. Agents and transporters performance.
- Manage the importing of goods affectively to meet deadlines.
- Continually optimize operations within the department i.e. collections, costings.
- Review using CROSS to see if products are correctly tariffed.
- Cross departmental communication regarding status of shipments.
- Benchmark internal performance against competitors.
- Drive inbound logistics efficiencies.
- Attend to Customs stops, liaise with NRCS or ICASA to expedite the release.

***Leadership**
- Plan, select, develop and maintain suitable manpower capabilities in the department.
- Develop a high-performance team.
- Identify and timeously address functional related problems and opportunities.
- Build and maintain constructive relationships with stakeholders.
- Provide technical direction.

***Expense Management**
- Manage demurrage as well as airline storage (cost conscious).
- Manage embargoes to ensure zero penalties Continuous monitoring of transport / logistics costs.
- Expense budget - Actual vs budgeted expenses, < = 2% expenditure over budget, to be evaluated bi-annually.

***Staff Management**
- Performance Management - Conduct performance assessments on subordinates.
- Tasks and Responsibilities - Ensure all in department have up to date job descriptions.
- Skills - Ensure staff are skilled to carry out what is expected of them, recommend training, coach, develop.

**Qualification and Experience**:

- Matric
- National diploma or degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, International Relations or Trade
- 5 - 8 years in Middle Management (High-Tech, Automotive or Freight Forwarding) involving Customs Affairs, Import or Export Management, Forwarding management

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Legislations such as Customs Act, OHSACT
- INCOTERMS
- Customs Trilogy (Valuation, Origin & Classification)
- Various Customs Rebates, refund and drawback provisions, NRCS Safety & Energy requirements, ICASA requirements, Guidelines on Transfer pricing between related parties, Import or Export procedures
- Product classification and customs rate of duty
- Flight Schedules)
- Tariffs, Valuation, Origin & Transfer pricing guides and CROSS Customs
- Published American Customs Rulings & the methods applied therein
- Import Permits
- Customs Clearing Instructions, Customs Tariff Determinations, Customs Valuations, Customs Release Letters, Customs docs for SARS Audit, Insurance Claims, Shipping Orders, Embargo release motivations to Customs
- Problem solving/analytic skills
- Administration skills (e.g., Microsoft Office)
- Strategy development skills
- Verbal and written communication skills
- People and customer management skills
- Conflict management skills
- Networking skills
- Communication skills
- Evaluative skills
- Customer relations skills
- Numerical skills
- Information processing skills
- Relationship building skills
- Influencing/persuasion skills
- Negotiation skills
- Management skills (managing people)
- Delegation skills
- Good presentation/public speaking
- Creative skills/idea generation skills