Job opportunity Melt Group : IMPORT & EXPORT MANAGER – DOUALA.
Job opportunity Melt Group : IMPORT & EXPORT MANAGER – DOUALA. HSD – Melt Group is searching for one of it’s clients, a multinational company, specialized in Food and Agro, an “Import and Export” Manager M/W, to accompany his activities in Cameroon. 
Manage international trade operation.
Description of tasks:
- Run the Sales.
- Align people in the same direction: agreement on sales plan, production plans and inventories projections.
- Balance Material costs / Inventory level / Service level for an optimum result.
- Find solutions with the local teams to increase the OTIF.
- Execute exports.
- Run the Imports of Materials, Spare parts, packaging, chemicals by sea freight or by airfreight.
- Optimize Costs.
- Improvement continuously of overall costs through monitoring and initiatives.
- Focus people on Supply Chain added values by chasing the waste.
- Liaising with accounts & finance regarding proper booking of expenses, approving expenses on time, timely payment of bills.
- Planning Execution.
- Responsible for the entire flow of the goods (intercompany and direct customers): contracts management, booking monitoring, shipments, invoicing, export documentation.
- Ensure a high commitment on the shipping plan by aligning all the stakeholders.
- Flexible export logistic operations to adapt to the daily constraints (warehouse, loading, port…).
- Optimization and Reduction of Imports Transit Time, import handling Costs and customs clearance costs and demurrages.
- Custom clear the imported containers (spare parts, materials, chemicals, packagings) from port and airport on time.
- Ensure OTIF and ATP for Exports are on target.
- Suppliers Monitoring.
- Monitoring Suppliers performance.
- Maintenance of custom, customer and third party relations and participation in the organization’s sales activities.
Ideal candidate profile:
Education
- Degree in international trade, logistics, sales and Finance or any other related field.
Experience
- Extensive work experience of more than 4 years in a similar position. The applicant should clearly exhibit evidence of growing businesses and managing large teams and achievement of company sales targets.
- Specific knowledge, competencies and skills required.
- Dynamic personality with strong managerial skills and the capacity to relate to individuals from different cultures and back grounds.
- Excellent track record of business development- especially on Import and export transactions.
- Ability to act decisively to resolve problems, contributes to process and procedures improvment.
- Excellent track record of business development- especially on Import and export transactions.
- Strong interpersonal skills to motivate and instruct employees in the company.
- Good knowledge on custom process.
- Well-developed communicational skills and a customer orientation.
- Fluent in French and English.
- Computer literate and good knowledge of ERP.
- Hands-on mentality, flexible and self-motivated.
- Team player.
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