Design how we’re structured for trade and build the function that runs it — customs, DGFT schemes through to closure, and banking reconciliation for imports and exports.
We import raw materials, tooling, machinery and consumables from several countries, and we export to the US and Europe, with more markets opening. Today it runs on agents and follow-up calls.
This isn’t a clearance role. You’d design how we’re structured for trade, then build the function that runs it.
What you’d build
- A compliance framework that holds up under audit three years later: classification and valuation positions documented and defensible, not improvised for each consignment.
- Scheme architecture: Advance Authorisation, EPCG, drawback, RoDTEP and IGCR, and a serious evaluation of MOOWR bonded manufacturing, which may be the highest-value single decision in this role.
- A closure discipline that actually closes. Licenses applied for and then forgotten are how companies end up with bank guarantees outstanding and obligations they can’t evidence. Redemption should be designed into the application, not discovered years later.
- Clean banking reconciliation: EDPMS and IDPMS entries closed as they arise, not accumulated into a backlog.
- Landed cost visibility by SKU, so sourcing decisions rest on real numbers.
- The trade structure for new markets as they open.
What you’d own
- Customs: clearance across Delhi NCR stations — Tughlakabad, Patparganj, Ballabhgarh, Garhi Harsaru and IGI Air Cargo — and gateway ports; Bill of Entry and Shipping Bill filing, classification, valuation, duty, examination and query resolution.
- DGFT: license applications and amendments on the DGFT portal; SION or ad-hoc norms fixation where no published norm fits our inputs; IEC and RCMC maintenance, export obligation extensions, relaxation applications and RoDTEP scrips.
- Closure and redemption: Advance Authorisation redemption — proof of import and export, CA-certified consumption under Appendix 4H, and EODC from the Regional Authority; EPCG installation certificates, annual average and block-wise obligation tracking, and EODC; and cancellation of bonds and bank guarantees with customs once closed.
- Banking and RBI: EDPMS closure through the AD bank within the realization window (unclosed shipping bills are how exporters end up caution-listed); IDPMS reconciliation of Bills of Entry against outward remittances; and eBRC self-certification on the DGFT portal. eBRC and EDPMS are separate systems, and generating one does not close the other — a distinction a surprising number of people get wrong.
- Cost: demurrage and detention treated as avoidable, not as a line item.
What you’ll need
- 8+ years in customs and EXIM, including in-house roles rather than only brokerage.
- Independent Bill of Entry and Shipping Bill filing through ICEGATE and e-Sanchit.
- Imports from multiple source countries, with the different documentation, origin and duty treatment each brings.
- Schemes run end to end, from application to EODC. Anyone can apply for an Advance Authorisation; we want someone who has closed them.
- Hands‑on EDPMS and IDPMS reconciliation, and the AD bank relationships that make closures happen.
- Strong classification and valuation judgment you can defend.
- Experience at Delhi NCR customs stations.