What are the responsibilities and job description for the Customs Broker Entry Writer and Traffic Coordinator position at City Business Brokerage LLC?
Customs Broker Entry Writer and Traffic Coordinator
Leverage your customs and logistics skills and relationships to earn a higher level of income, quality of life, boost your value and reputation in the marketplace.
We have an innovative compensation plan that could be an amazing fit for those who are entrepreneurial in nature, work well independently, good problem solvers, and have strong industry connections.
Our biggest differentiating factor is that we will compensate based on a percentage of file profit. We offer one level of compensation if you work files for customers we sell and a higher level if the employee brings in the customer or is a big factor in securing the business. In some instances, we will provide a small salary while a new employee builds their portfolio of business.
Our firm is a Customs Broker handling a wide range of commodities and offering multiple services. We also sell services on a commission basis for other companies that fall outside of our core competency. This provides some opportunity to earn passive income.
We are very focused on developing the T86 business. It is our belief this will continue to be a high growth opportunity where we wish to create an edge in the marketplace. We will look forward to your being a part of our success.
Corporate Goal
Our goal is to manage a workplace that generates long term prosperity for our employees, customers, and the company.
We want to be a great place to work for employees who are obsessive about customer service to earn above average income, feel a sense of accomplishment, security, and comfort in their job.
We seek long term partners in this business. You will be generating income and the company will give you the structure to do it. We will provide software, a work process, credit and accounting, sales, compliance, risk management, a vendor network, capital, and backup support to cover time off.
Experience and Requirements
- Customs Entry Writing
- Airport and Seaport Import Traffic Procedures such as Issuing Delivery Orders, Freight Payment, Coordinating Inspection…If you don’t have experience you are able to learn quickly
- Bookkeeping Skills such as accruing funds, billing, making freight payments…
- Profit Minded, we will look to you to make every effort to assure that we achieve long term prosperity for you and the company
- Relationship Skills, the ability to develop a sense of empathy with customers, vendors, and government agencies, and build mutually beneficial relationships
- Communication Skills, willingness and patience to explain complex issues to customers and others
- Foreign Language Skills, Not necessary, but we would love to have them and would work with you to try to find business opportunities leveraging your skills and interests
- Compliance and Risk Management Mindset - The ability to manage these two critical requirements efficiently.
- Decision Making Skills
- Ability to gather information, analyze, and make quick effective decisions.
- Willingness to change a decision and course of action if appropriate
- Knowing that not making a decision is usually the worst decision
- Accountability - You take responsibility for errors, oversight, or decisions that result in negative consequences.
- If appropriate you identify the root cause of the problem and determine what you could do differently in the future.
- We do believe that sometimes bad things just happen and need to be accepted
- Reliability
Location
The position will be remote but you must be located in the Pensacola Florida, Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans, or Houston region. Attendance will be required on occasion at meetings held within the region.
Hours
There will be some flexibility in hours. Most work can be done within business hours, but some tasks come up that need to be done after business hours. We trust that you will be able to balance this in a way that assures you and the business will be perceived positively by the customer.