Customs Analyst
About us
With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we're the world's leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you'll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future.
Join us to create a career worth celebrating.
About the function:
Supply Chain & Manufacturing is where our brands are made, moved and delivered to the world.
With over half of our people working across more than 100 sites, this is a complex, large-scale operation that brings together production, logistics, engineering and supplier partnerships.
It's fast-paced and hands-on, with teams working together to ensure quality, efficiency and sustainability at every stage. From sourcing ingredients to getting products into customers' hands, you'll play a role in delivering the brands people know and love.
Context/Scope:
The Customs Analyst acts as bridge between sourcing points and operations teams as responsible role for planning import process into Mexico to deliver product on time ensuring always fulfil with legal framework.
Purpose of Position
The Customs analyst is crucial for ensuring the efficiency of the supply chain and compliance with regulations. Their role includes handling documentation, operative costs and establishing relationships with carriers, customs brokers, and internal customers. Their work directly impacts on product availability and profitability on company goals
Recommendations Expected
Is expected for this position to decide when and how coordinate customs clearance based on business needs in collaboration with other functional areas
Effective management of customs broker performance to keep lead times and proficient execution.
Seek improvements areas in daily operation
Financial Accountability (Budget/Revenue)
Report customs expenses and ensure payments to suppliers according to agreed terms.
Follow financial controls and procedures for budged flow
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Market / Function Complexity
- Complex Legal framework and interaction with different government offices: ANAM, COFEPRIS, SE, SAT, IMPI.
Operational and Logistical Challenges:
- Border Congestion and Delays: Mexico south and north border are facing with social constraints as migratory strikes that triggers uncertain impacts to daily operation.
- Infrastructure Limitations and Customs Systems Shutdown: Is common to face with systems failures delaying customs dispatches compromising product availability and impacting transportation costs, storages, and demurrages.
- Security Risks and Corruption: Mexico faces security challenges, including cargo theft, which can impact the supply chain and customs operations. Corruption at some ports of entry and with certain customs officials can also complicate compliance and increase the cost of doing business.
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Strategical Accountability
Ensure an effective communication with other internal areas as warehouse, transport, planning, finance, brand change and trade compliance to grant a seamless execution to business operation.
Leadership Responsibilities
This role requires a combination of critical thinking, decision-making, and effective communication skills to collaborate with other departments and external stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication:
Facilitating Cross-Department Collaboration: Must effectively collaborate with other departments, such as logistics, supply chain, finance, procurement, and legal, to ensure seamless customs operations.
Liaising with External Stakeholders: Must maintain effective communication with brokers, suppliers, and logistics partners. This is crucial for building strong relationships, resolving issues, and ensuring smooth customs clearance processes.
Key Accountabilities
Customs' clearance of products according company guidelines
- Shipments follow up with suppliers for product in transit to Mexico.
- Communication with shipping companies for cargo releasing.
- Paperwork revision to avoid delays un customs process.
- Monitoring bonded warehouse acceptance entries and labelling inspections request
Trade Compliance support
- Support on internal and external audits.
- Raise any risk detected in daily operation.
- Record keeping
- Submit for signature any document needs for customs process: Letters for customs procedures or cargo release with carriers.
Customs Costs and Operational Efficiency
Partial
- Audit customs broker expenses invoices.
- Authorize and follow-up payments to suppliers.
Inventory arrival notification to warehouse
Partial
- Provide documents for goods receipt
- Process goods receipt in ERP- SAP
Qualifications and Experience Required
- Bachelor's degree in International Business, Foreign Affairs, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- English Intermediate level
- Excel (pivots and common functions for data analysis)
- Experience in ERP and PBI is an extra plus
Experience in Customs and Trade Compliance.(2 - 3 years)
Knowledge of Customs Regulations. Bonded warehouse and Spirits Industry is a plus.
Analytical Skills
Success Criteria
Ensuring that all customs processes and activities fully align with local and international regulations, including timely and accurate submission of documentation, adherence to tariff classifications, and observance of trade agreements.
Passing internal and external audits with minimal or no compliance issues, indicating effective management of regulatory requirements and accurate record-keeping.
Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you're supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one.
Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this.
We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you'll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You'll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more.
Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to new heights and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world.
Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you.
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Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- FSA
- FSA With Employer Contribution
- HSA
- HSA With Employer Contribution
- Fitness Subsidies
- Pet Insurance
- Mental Health Benefits
Parental Benefits
- Birth Parent or Maternity Leave
- Non-Birth Parent or Paternity Leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
- Adoption Leave
Work Flexibility
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Commuter Benefits Program
- Casual Dress
- Happy Hours
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
- Volunteer Time Off
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K)
- Pension
- Stock Purchase Program
- Performance Bonus
- Relocation Assistance
Professional Development
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Promote From Within
- Mentor Program
- Access to Online Courses
- Lunch and Learns
- Internship Program
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
- Woman founded/led
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