Export Manager

About the Company

JAS is an international, non-asset-based supply chain services and solutions company. Our services include air and ocean freight forwarding, contract logistics, customs brokerage, distribution, inbound logistics, truckload brokerage, and other supply chain management services, including consulting, coordination of purchase orders, and customized management services.

About the Role

The Export Manager oversees the export department to ensure the movement of freight out of the country, in accordance with organizational policy and procedure, and to comply with relevant local, country, and international law and process.

Responsibilities

• Manage and develop efficient and effective flow of work to attain optimum efficiency and productivity of the department.
• Identify the existence and cause of problems and solutions to correct.
• Utilize reports to quantify and prioritize workload.
• Manage communication with export-related authorities, customers, and suppliers in all relevant countries to ensure efficient, positive, and lawful relations, support, and activities.
• Initiate, promote, support, and implement change to increase organizational effectiveness.
• Make comprehensive decisions based on analysis, experience, and good judgment.
• Ensure staff have the training and resources necessary to perform their jobs.
• Represent the company as appropriate in its relationships with major customers, suppliers, competitors, and commercial entities.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Conduct performance evaluations for export department staff.
• Recommend hiring, firing, and promotion.
• Identify and resolve personnel issues.
• Create an environment that encourages professional development.
• Ensure employees comply with organization policy, procedures, and performance programs.

Requirements

• Organizational and time management skills.
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office suite (desirable).
• Detail-oriented, able to multitask and meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated, able to work in a team and independently.
• Understanding of regulatory compliance with export rules and regulations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of relevant export and freight forwarding experience.
• Minimum 3-5 years of supervisory experience.
• Master’s Degree in freight forwarding (desirable).
• Knowledge of procedures for international and domestic freight, trucking, and warehouse services.

Work Environment

100% performed in a climate-controlled internal office environment under normal office conditions. Travel will be up to 10% required in support of the position’s responsibilities. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, use hands and fingers to feel and handle, reach with arms and hands, talk, and hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, and crouch; lift weight or exert a force up to a maximum of 25 pounds.

The responsibilities associated with this job may change from time to time in accordance with the Company’s business needs. The incumbent may be required to perform additional and/or different responsibilities from those set forth above.

Additional Information

JAS will perform a background check to determine if you have been convicted of a felony. Absent special circumstances, a felony conviction may disqualify you from employment or result in immediate termination, as JAS is a customs broker governed by federal regulation.