Company Description
Foreign Trade Expert (Location: Nairobi)
Functional Area: Logistics.
Corporate success at Bosch is determined by innovation capability and an edge in know-how. Accept with us the challenge of new tasks by your willingness to permanently learn something new.
Robert Bosch East Africa is a growing business in the Bosch Group located in Nairobi, Kenya. We operate in the business divisions Mobility Aftermarket, Power Tools and Home Comfort.
At Bosch, we shape the future by inventing high-quality technologies and services that spark enthusiasm and enrich people’s lives.
Our promise to our associates is rock-solid: we grow together, we enjoy our work, and we inspire each other.
Join in and feel the difference.
Job Description
Your responsibilities:
- Enable customs and foreign trade operations in Kenya, ensure smooth customs clearance and avoid supply chain interruptions.
- Ensure compliance with relevant legislation as well as application and full alignment with the Bosch Central Directive "Customs CD3400”
- Develop and maintain cost efficient foreign trade processes (e.g. implementation of special customs procedures and authorization; secure the fulfilment of associated obligations)
- Coordinate requests from Customs Authorities, attend and assist in customs audits (internal & external).
- Attend and assist in regional customs audits.
- Implement and maintain AEO program requirements at Robert BOSCH East Africa
- Local broker selection, tender evaluation.
- Support central purchasing in Africa (regional) Air freight & Sea freight tender preparation, evaluation, and selection.
- Coordinate import and export operations for the BOSCH business units.
- Regional broker management and ensure KPI evaluation and reporting.
- Customs valuations as per relevant customs law & regulations
- Liaise with BOSCH Tax & Governance teams to ensure regional foreign trade compliance.
- Archiving of all Foreign Trade documentation.
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum a university degree in supply chain management or similar
- Master’s degree in business or related is added advantage
- Relevant tax and customs trainings.
Experience and knowledge:
- Min 3 years professional experience in foreign trade across Africa regions.
- Profound knowledge of logistics and foreign trade
- Experience in dealing with customs authorities.
- Experience in customs audits, HS Code justifications and transfer pricing rules.
- Working Knowledge and Business knowledge/operations of the BOSCH group.
Your personal characteristics and skills:
- Entrepreneurial and customer-oriented mind-set
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to learn and translate data into actionable insights.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively convey information to diverse stakeholders.
- Assertiveness
- Strong IT-Skills (e.g. SAP, MS Office)
- Analytical thinking
- Strong interest in technology analysis, innovation management, data analysis or a related field.
- Willing to learn.
- Autonomous working
- Responsible, reliable, and self-motivated.
- Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and manage tasks with guidance.
- Fluent in English language is a must.
Additional Information
Major Challenges
- Implementation of Bosch foreign trade standards in line with the BOSCH guidelines & CD.
- Ensure compliance with frequently changing rules and regulations in KE, GH & AO
- Coordination & cooperation between BOSCH business divisions, Customs Authorities and Logistic Service Providers.
Projects:
- Assisting BOSCH business divisions with current and emerging foreign trade regulations.
- EU-KE Foreign Trade agreement evaluation
- GB-KE Foreign Trade agreement evaluations & savings potentials
Top Skills
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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