Import export manager
Also searched as: Director de importación y exportación · Gerente de comercio exterior · Jefe de importaciones y exportaciones
Code 1324.3.2
What does a Import export manager do?
The import/export director (gerente de comercio exterior) leads foreign-trade operations: suppliers, international logistics and compliance. Use this Job Dictionary profile to foreign-trade leadership as distinct from the operational customs broker.
How critical is this role
Connects strategy with day-to-day execution.
Coordinates customs, transit and the sailing calendar. A vacancy turns into delays the customer sees weeks later, when the stock is already gone.
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Essential skills
Knowledge
- international commercial transactions rules
- international import export regulations
- embargo regulations
- export control principles
Skills and competences
- speak different languages
- apply conflict management
- create solutions to problems
- comprehend financial business terminology
- set import export strategies
- ensure customs compliance
- perform financial risk management in international trade
- manage processes
- conduct performance measurement
- abide by business ethical code of conducts
- monitor international market performance
- control trade commercial documentation
- have computer literacy
Transversal competences
- maintain financial records
- meet deadlines
- direct distribution operations
- build rapport with people from different cultural backgrounds
- produce sales reports
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What to assess for this role
Assess supplier network, logistics cost control and country-risk management.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a foreign-trade manager do?
- Sets import/export strategy, negotiates terms and ensures international supply continuity.
- Vs customs broker?
- The manager leads the area; the broker runs clearance. They need each other.
- What to measure when hiring?
- Savings/lead-time cases and handling container/duty crises.
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This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences