Foreign Trade Specialist

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Midrand, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng
Mid level
Internet of Things
The Role
The Foreign Trade Specialist at Bosch will ensure compliance with import and export regulations, manage logistics and broker operations, coordinate reporting and KPI management, and support foreign trade processes. The role requires data analysis, customs dispute resolution, and project implementation for operational improvements.
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Company Description

Do you want beneficial technologies being shaped by your ideas? Whether in the areas of mobility solutions, consumer goods, industrial technology or energy and building technology - with us, you will have the chance to improve quality of life all across the globe. Welcome to Bosch!

Job Description

Bosch is looking to employ a Foreign Trade Specialist as part of their team

Duties will include but are not limited to the following:

Ensuring Import & Export compliance within the BOSCH CD3400, and South African international trade regulations

Coordinate exports, AF, SF and Road freight

Liaise with BOSCH Tax & Governance teams as well as PUI & PUR to ensure regional foreign trade compliance on import and export operations

Responsible for broker management on exports (all LSPs)

Coordinate LSP reporting and KPI management for all imports and exports (Normal air, Express & Sea)

Support and act as proxy for all AF & SF import functions of the business Co-ordinator

Support and work as Proxy to the foreign trade APDP processes

Ensure accuracy in customs valuation (duties & taxes) and invoice verifications

Service Invoice verification - factual, price check as per relevant rate cards

Ensure Internal Control Systems are reported

Broker audit management, reporting & dispute resolutions (including invoicing) 

Coordinate FT internal SOP updates & maintenance - Coordinate and update relevant foreign trade operating procedures, process flows and LSP management SOPs

  • Import and export operation procedure and process flow as per CD3400
  • Broker Audit procedure and seek exception from C/TXR for FT audit for Express service providers.
  • Invoice handling procedure as per CD022500.
  • SOP update for ICS, FTICS, FTOD
  • APDP SOP updates on Rebates, Drawbacks, Preference calculations e.t.c,

Project implementation - Local broker

Identify, analyse, and report potential foreign trade savings opportunities

Customs dispute resolution - Valuation, HS Classification & Tariff, NRCS e.t.c.,

Proactively resolve disputes with LSPs

BP & CF0x planning

Foreign trade data analysis, modelling and reporting automation

Qualifications

  • Minimum Matric
  • Degree/ Diploma in Logistics, Foreign Trade, or similar
  • 3-5 years practical experience in foreign trade
  • Profound knowledge of logistics and foreign trade
  • Understanding of South African customs and foreign trade rules and regulations
  • Experience with dealing with authorities (preferred)
  • Understanding of complex business models (e.g. multilevel business)
  • IT Experience (e.g. SAP or MS Excel)
  • Automotive / FMCG experience would be advantageous
  • Entrepreneurial and customer-oriented mind-set
  • Strong communication skills
  • Assertiveness
  • Strong IT-Skills (e.g. SAP, MS Office)
  • Analytical thinking
  • Autonomous working
  • Responsible, reliable, and self-motivated
  • Fluent in English

Additional Information

By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce.

By responding to this advert, you consent to Bosch SA (Pty) Ltd to the processing of your personal information for the recruitment purposes and confirm that any personal information has been submitted voluntarily.

Applicants will be requested to fill in and sign a POPIA Act Consent form. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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The Company
HQ: Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe
166,834 Employees
Remote Workplace
Year Founded: 1886

What We Do

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 402,600 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2021). The company generated sales of 78.7 billion euros in 2021. Its operations are divided into four business sectors: Mobility Solutions, Industrial Technology, Consumer Goods, and Energy and Building Technology.

As a leading IoT provider, Bosch offers innovative solutions for smart homes, Industry 4.0, and connected mobility. Bosch is pursuing a vision of mobility that is sustainable, safe, and exciting. It uses its expertise in sensor technology, software, and services, as well as its own IoT cloud, to offer its customers connected, cross-domain solutions from a single source. The Bosch Group’s strategic objective is to facilitate connected living with products and solutions that either contain artificial intelligence (AI) or have been developed or manufactured with its help. Bosch improves quality of life worldwide with products and services that are innovative and spark enthusiasm. In short, Bosch creates technology that is “Invented for life.”

The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch GmbH and its roughly 440 subsidiary and regional companies in some 60 countries. Including sales and service partners, Bosch’s global manufacturing, engineering, and sales network covers nearly every country in the world. With its more than 400 locations worldwide, the Bosch Group has been carbon neutral since the first quarter of 2020. The basis for the company’s future growth is its innovative strength. At 128 locations across the globe, Bosch employs some 76,100 associates in research and development, of which more than 38,000 are software engineers.

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