Cross Border Shipping Customs Valuation Lead, Associate Director

Cross Border Shipping Customs Valuation Lead, Associate Director

Apply locations UK - Hertfordshire - Stevenage USA - Pennsylvania - Upper Providence

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 9 Days Ago

Time left to apply: End Date: December 3, 2024 (4 days left to apply)

Job requisition id: 407974

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes, pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme.

We embrace modern work practices; our Performance with Choice programme offers a hybrid working model, empowering you to find the optimal balance between remote and in-office work.

The productivity of GSK R&D is critically dependent on the effective movement of R&D materials between GSK sites and Third Parties. With an increase in volume and types of materials being shipped globally, there is a need to expand the R&D Material Movement Team, focusing on customs valuation of our R&D materials.

The successful candidate will join the R&D Material Movement Team who are accountable for ensuring R&D materials move in a compliant, auditable, and efficient way, working closely with customs authorities, broker management, specialty couriers, and our Trade Compliance and Finance organisations.

Key activities of the team include:

• Oversight of the R&D shipping process and systems
• Provision of import clearance instructions for our R&D shipments
• Compliance support for imports where required for International Tariff Classifications; Import / Export Licenses Management; Dangerous Goods Compliance; Country of Origin determinations, Denied and Embargo Screening restrictions, Shipping Documentation, and Valuations for R&D
• Escalation point for all R&D shipping issues
• Oversight of Specialty Couriers
• Oversight of the customs valuation operation for R&D

In this role you will:

• Be a key contributor to the Valuation Remediation project team to design a simpler, standardised, and compliant customs valuation process and system for R&D
• Take ownership of the customs valuation operation (process and technology) for R&D when project transitions to business as usual.

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience in international logistics/shipping
• Extensive knowledge of cross-border regulations and procedures, with a focus on customs valuation requirements
• An understanding of Pharma R&D

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

Please note the following skills are not necessary, just preferred, if you do not have them, please still apply:

• Strong interpersonal skills and experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
• Experience of strong relationship building and influencing skills at all levels
• A growth mindset
• Strong teamwork

Closing Date for Applications – December 2nd, 2024 (COB)

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

At GSK, we have bold ambitions for patients, aiming to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people over the next 10 years. R&D is committed to discovering and delivering transformational vaccines and medicines to prevent and change the course of disease.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose – to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together – so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns – as an organisation where people can thrive.

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