Customs & Forwarding Officer

Customs & Forwarding Officer (Contract)

Location: Eindhoven

Duration: 12 months 

Hours/week: 40

Budget range: €2.800 - 3.900 per month

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Take care of administrative activities to ensure delivery process of customer orders including invoicing. Goal is to have necessary documents to ship physical goods on time, correctly and complete to customers according to quality standards and in line with compliance rules.

When you choose to work at Philips you’ll work on life-changing projects; and contribute to innovative health technologies and solutions that improve billions of lives around the world.

You will be responsible for:

• Creation of necessary documents for shipments with use of different tools (e.g. SAP, MIC)

• Pro-active communication to (internal) customers in a clear and customer centric way (e.g warehouse, order managers, export control)

• Communicate and align with carriers to ensure on time and correct shipment of goods

• Archive all necessary documents for all shipments of customer orders related to customers and countries according to local legislation

• Arrange legalization of all necessary documents (e.g. invoice, CoO) by Chamber of Commerce of the Netherlands on time and correct

• Communicate and maintain all necessary information regarding shipments with all stakeholders including internal SharePoint overview

• Ensuring controls like ICS & SOX are met and export control compliance

• Escalate prompt to Team lead when problems are not solved on time and could impact delivery.

• Actively support the implementation of continuous improvement, eg LEAN tools such as Kaizens/A3. 

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:

• Someone who is looking to make the first steps in the logistic process (starters function)

• Fluent in English, in words and in writing.

• Someone who has affiliation with Transport and Distribution management including import and export

• Good general knowledge on logistical processes

• Furthermore, you are an enthusiastic and motivated team-player. You can cope with stress, are precise, proactive, have a flexible mentality and you are able to work in a changing environment. You have good communication skills and are customer oriented and always see opportunities to improve the processes (operational excellence).

You are a part of

You will work within the international OSS team consisting of 9 other enthusiastic, motivated and cooperative team members. The team consists of 5 OSS officers and 4 Letter of Credit specialists. You will report to the head of IWD Operations and are therefore part of the IWD Operations group. This group is responsible for all outbound related document flows within the Philips supply chain

In return, we offer you:

For this project, you’ll work for Philips and become a contract or permanent employee of YACHT (a Randstad company). As a contractor at Philips you'll enjoy cutting-edge challenges and unexpected experiences that make you a more in-demand professional.

If you’re looking for meaningful work and a chance to tackle complex challenges, broaden your skills and expertise and become an even more sought after professional, you’ll find all that and more with project work at Philips.

The Randstad companies are responsible for finding talent to provide services at Philips. If you are selected to provide services for Philips, you will be employed by Randstad and will not be an employee of Philips.