As a Customs Officer (with German), you will play a pivotal role in ensuring our shipments are legally compliant with the requirements of the German market, monitoring that our organisation operates in adherence to Germany-specific laws and regulations. You will interact closely with German authorities, in addition to liaising extensively with Vesuvius’ own teams, including Finance and Customer Service. This is an exciting opportunity for someone looking to leverage their background in Logistics or Law, while making use of their knowledge of the German language.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that Vesuvius is compliant with all security-related, organisational and disciplinary provisions concerning customs and foreign trade regulations, defined customs legal processes and current authorisations
• Supporting the administration of our authorisations and the maintenance of master data through cooperation with the MDM team
• Issuing preference certificates, monitoring and checking incoming preference certificates as well as maintaining the preference rules and agreements in SAP and creating preference calculations and declarations of origin
• Advising on electronic export declarations in ATLAS (Automated Tariff and Local Customs Clearance System), monitoring export declarations for completion, monitoring import processes and applying for export licenses
• Accompanying customs and foreign trade audits as well as external audits.
• Classifying customs tariffs of new articles and maintaining customs-relevant master data in SAP as well as coordinating and monitoring import customs clearance
• Advising and supporting product groups and end customers regarding export and import processing
• Supporting on special projects and carrying out internal training on customs-related topics within the company

Requirements:

• Several years of professional experience in Customs, Logistics or in the field of Foreign Trade/Customs Clearance. Candidates with a background in Law will also be considered favourably
• Fluent written and spoken German and English skills (Polish not required)
• Knowledge of ATLAS, SAP, GTS or comparable and of MS Office applications
• A university degree in Foreign Trade, Logistics, Customs or Law - preferred
• Several years of professional experience in customs or foreign trade/customs processing, ideally as a customs officer or in a comparable position and/or specialist knowledge of customs and foreign trade law - preferred
• Sound knowledge of customs (import, export, origin of goods and preferential law) - preferred
• Ability to work both in a team and independently
• Reliability and solid organisation skills
• Ability to work in a careful and structured manner
• Good communications skills

What we offer:

• Attractive compensation
• Private medical health care
• Lunch card
• Holiday allowance
• Home office possibilities
• Internal referral program
• International work environment
• Creative atmosphere and great people