Customs Manager – Argos

Role overview

Role responsibilities

• Own customs declaration processes, procedures, systems and data, including duty payments and reconciliations.
• Ensure customs-legislation compliance for relevant goods movements, including those involving Northern Ireland.
• Maintain registrations, guarantees, authorisations and deferment accounts, including Simplified Customs Declaration Process requirements.
• Lead governance for customs valuation, tariff classification and origin; identify sustainable duty-optimisation opportunities.
• Advise on sourcing, suppliers, logistics and new routes; manage relationships with authorities, brokers, advisers and auditors.
• Handle customs enquiries, disclosures and remediation; embed customs requirements in business and technology change.
• Improve management information and automation, and build customs capability across the team and stakeholders.

Essential criteria

• Relevant customs or tax qualification, or equivalent demonstrable experience leading customs activity.
• Practical UK customs knowledge covering classification, valuation, origin, declarations and authorisations.
• Experience leading customs compliance and risk management in a large or complex importing organisation.
• Experience managing customs authority audits or enquiries and working with brokers, advisers or logistics partners.
• Experience leading colleagues and embedding customs requirements into supply-chain, systems or business change.
• Ability to connect customs brokerage and supply-chain operations with import data, duty and import VAT accounting.
• Ability to translate complex customs requirements into practical actions for senior and operational stakeholders.

Location and working arrangement

• The role is listed at the London Store Support Centre and Home, London.

Compensation and contract

• Salary is described as competitive plus benefits.
• The role is full time and permanent.