Customs Brokerage Assistant Manager

OEC Group•Miami, FL

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

OEC Group is seeking a Customs Brokerage Assistant Manager to join their Miami team. This role involves overseeing the correct and timely creation and transmission of entries to US Customs, preparing customs entries, ensuring proper classification of goods, creating invoices for duty and entry charges, developing and maintaining customer profiles, coordinating with customers on commodity classification, answering brokerage-related inquiries, assisting with compliance matters, ensuring timely payment of statements to US Customs, conducting audits on customs entries, supporting the Sales Department to increase Brokerage sales, and creating new ideas, systems, and procedures to improve the department's efficiency. The position also involves assisting with evaluating department performance and creating performance goals.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience in Customs Brokerage
Licensed Customs Broker
Ability to offer guidance and demonstrate leadership within the Miami Customs Brokerage team.
Ability to oversee the correct and timely creation and transmission of entries to US Customs.
Fluency in Spanish
3-5 years of experience with Entry Writing, U.S. Customs.
Strong working knowledge of: HTS classification and valuation, ACE, ABI, and CROSS, U.S. Customs and PGA regulations
Excellent organizational, communication, and people‑management skills
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast‑paced environment
Experience with Entry Writing, U.S. Customs
Customs Brokerage License
Knowledge of Microsoft Office

Nice To Haves

Cargowise experience is a plus.
Prior leadership or management experience strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Prepares customs entries for all import shipments to be submitted to and released from U.S. Customs in a timely manner.
Ensures that all entries are properly classified by using tools such as company profiles, CROSS (Customs Rulings Online Search System), Internet and communicating with the Importer of record.
Create invoices for duty and entry charges to be sent to the Billing Department.
Develop and maintain customer profiles based on the customer’s shipment history.
Coordinate with customers to classify new commodities according to HTS.
Answer any Brokerage related inquiries internally and externally.
Assist with compliance matters including; verifying power of attorney and conducting in depth research and development of classification.
Responsible for ensuring that daily statements are paid to U.S. Customs in a timely manner.
Conducts audits on customs entries to check for any errors.
Support the Sales Department to help increase Brokerage sales by joining sales calls and educating customers on Brokerage operations.
Creating and developing new ideas, systems and procedures to improve the Brokerage Department’s overall efficiency.
Assist with evaluating department performance and creating performance goals.