Northern Europe Customs Manager (all genders)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany Permanent Posted on Jul. 17, 2025 Closing on Aug. 31, 2025To ensure a rapid processing of your application, please apply only via the “Apply” button. Please include a letter of motivation and a current resume with your application.
About the job
Our Team:
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible.
Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.
As Northern Europe Customs Manager (all genders) within our Global Customs team, you’llbe accountable for managing Customs conformity for all international flows in Northern Europe. You will strive for Customs optimizations through Customs and organizational leverages and will be a key player representing Customs in Sanofi Projects while working in a multicultural environment. You will manage 2 collaboratorswho will be based in Germany.
Main responsibilities:
As part of the Sanofi Group responsibilities, the Customs manager (all genders) guarantees the compliance of the Customs data & practices in Germany, Switzerland, Austria & Benelux Countries according to the Customs regulations and Trade agreements in forth.Reporting to the Head of Customs, the Customs manager is responsible of
The development of the Northern European Customs team and support of the Customs network in the EMEA region.
The flows conformity for import and exports.
The Customs data determination and maintenance
Participationinprojects initiated by the group requiring Customs support.
Optimizations of Customs operations by implementing leverages to reduce customs duties.
Manage the Northern Europe Customs team
Implement Customs procedures, train local stakeholders and reflect Customs process in procedures/modus operandi.
Manage and develop the local team; set up priorities aligned with the Global Customs team and monitorthe collaborators’careers through regular reviews.
Monitor the activity of the department via monthly indicators and perform reporting to the Central Customs team.
Manage Customs data accuracy for Northern European plants
Ensure that classifications of all products manufactured, sold and procured in Germany are accurate and are reflected in the appropriate ERP.
Determine the preferential status of goods manufactured by the Northern European affiliates.
Monitor the country of origin in the local ERP for all products sold.
Ensure that valuation processes are accurate for non-commercial goods.
Is accountable for the maintenance of the regulatory Customs database to record all data related to imported flows.
Manage Customs accuracy for the inbound & outbounds flows from/to Northern Europe
Customsdocumentation
Ensure that Customs operations performed in Germany meet the quality criteria to obtain the full AEO certification.
Monitor and maintain customs authorizations, Power of attorney, Customs mandates, proxys.
Implement local procedures to reduce the risk of non-compliance and reflect the Quality documentation in the Group Quality Library.
Customsaudits/certification:
Participatein Customs inspections/audits in the Northern European countries and revert to other Customs authorities when needed.
Followup and monitor checks and disputes as well as customs inspections/audits. Set up corrective solutions when needed and train the related neighboring functions
Ensure that AEO standards are fulfilled for all Sanofi legal entities in Germany.
Manage yearly price adjustments with local Customs and the Transfer price team.
You will be accountable for the Sanofi bonded warehouse Accounting and responsible for monitoring adjustments when needed.
Implement Customs optimizations in Northern Europe
Collaborate with the Process & Performance manager (all genders) to establish the yearly roadmap and monitoring of the local optimizations.
Perform analysis on imported goods to apply any specific regime in order to reduce import duties (Inward process relief, suspension, preferential origin, bonded inventory); monitor the savings on a yearly basis.
Contribute to group projects to harmonize & simplify Customs processes.
Propose optimization solutions and synergies with other sanofi plants.
Train neighboring functions on Customs activities to support and improve the clearance process.
Monitor the broker quality and provide monthly indicators.
About you
Experience:
Extensive experience in the Customs area (Warranties,specificregime management, knowledge of German Customs organisation, IPR, Suspensions, preferential origin management, etc…)
Experience in Customs with a recognized track record in several positions exposed to Customs in an international environment.
Soft and technical skills:
Strong communication skills to manage a local team and work with various neighboring functions
Capacity to manage smoothly deadlines along with intrinsic technical / resource constraints
Education:
Completed vocational training or university degree combined with several years of professional experience in Customs
Customs credentials required for export control and Customs management
Languages: Fluent in German and English (both written and spoken)
Why choose us?
For your work-life balance: our mobile office policy - work up to 40% of your working hours outside your company workplace in Germany
For your self-development: long-term employee accounts and sabbaticals
For you to think outside the box: assignments beyond the boundaries of your own department in so-called gigs and a wide range of further training opportunities
For your family: 14 weeks of paid family time in addition to statutory maternity leave and parental leave for both parents, daycare places and holiday and emergency care
For your self-care: attractive healthcare offers, our own fitness center and leasing bikes and an individually usable mobility allowance
For your security in old age: attractive company pension scheme in addition to the public pension, but also continued payment of salary in the event of illness
For our society: paid time off for voluntary work in our "We Volunteer" program
Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue Progress. And let’s discover Extraordinary together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
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