Trade Compliance Manager

• Departmental Leadership: Oversee, coordinate, and manage the comprehensive daily
  operations of the Customs & Trade Compliance Department.
  
• Vendor Management: Maintain and optimize daily communication, relationship building, and
  performance tracking with freight forwarders and logistics companies.
  
• Bonded Cargo Management: Responsible for the customs declaration, compliance tracking,
  and overall management of daily bonded goods/materials import and export activities.
  
• External Stakeholder Liaison: Establish and maintain smooth communication and operational
  alignment with external cooperative entities and customs authorities.
  
• Inventory Reconciliation: Conduct regular inventory reconciliation and audits between the
  Customs Department and various internal Business Units (BUs).
  
• Domestic Repairs & Gate Control: Manage the declaration and clearance processes for
  domestic equipment repairs and oversee the daily checkpoint/gate registration for incoming
  and outgoing goods.
  
• Consumables & Scrap Compliance: Responsible for customs filing/record-filing (备案) of
  manufacturing consumables; execute monthly tracking, processing, and disposal/return
  clearance of industrial scrap and waste materials.
  
• Ad-hoc Assignments: Execute other cross-functional tasks and related duties assigned by
  executive leadership.
  
  

Requirements

• Education: Full-time Bachelor’s degree or above in Customs Declaration, International Trade,
  
• Logistics, Supply Chain Management, or a related discipline.
  
• Technical Skills: Highly proficient in MS Office software (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
  
• Professional Experience: Minimum of 3 years of hands-on customs declaration experience
  within the manufacturing sector; deeply familiar with standard import/export compliance and
  customs clearance workflows.
  
• Core Competencies: Outstanding comprehensive capabilities, commercially sharp, strong
  logical thinking, and highly analytical with data and numbers.
  
• Regulatory Expertise: Well-versed in Malaysian customs laws, statutory regulations, and local
  import/export customs clearance procedures (e.g., Royal Malaysian Customs Department
  regulations, LMW/FIZ frameworks).
  
• Language Proficiency: Fluency in written and spoken English and Mandarin is highly preferred.