CNOOC Uganda Limited is a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). CNOOC Uganda Limited is delighted to offer employment opportunities to the local talent. Grow your career with CNOOC Uganda Limited and join our experienced team of professionals. Are you focused, committed, passionate and ready to take on new challenges? Then this could be your opportunity to make a valid contribution to the development of the oil and gas sector in Uganda.

Customs Manager -Procurement & Contracts
Location: Kampala, Lake Albert production installation base or other cities in Uganda if required.
Primary Function:
• Management of the custom and corporate
compliance across the entire Company, ensuring that all process are correctly adhered to.

Responsibilities:
• Manage both customs and trade compliance across the Company, ensuring that all global regulations are understood. Responsible for determining customs classifications and regulatory requirements (licenses & certificates)
Ensure the highest compliance levels for all customs and government agency requirements across all staff and teams.
• Oversee entry auditing and reporting results and recommendation for improvement. Ensure Company controls, policies, procedures, processes and applications are all understood by the team and implemented accordingly.
• Manage the Company’s interface using customs authorities.
Set group objectives, strategies and design performance reporting tools.
• Prepare and manager the customs budget and ensure there is value for money in regards to budgets and cost cutting
• Arrange for tax exemption and execution of import customs bonds for temporal imports.
• Compile SOPs to comply with PSA, JOAs obligations, benchmarking the best practices in the oil industry,
• Establish and seek approvals with FIN for budgets: monitor and report against such as per agreed schedule and limits.
• Develop a freight forwarding standards that will be used as a work manuals both internally & externally
Develop Technical work groups between JVs and the competent Authorities to solve logistics issues
• Adhere to SLAs with identified clients and act as liaison function between SCM planning and all projects.
• Manage major contractors with respect to SOPs, performance and contractual issues.
• Elaborate schedule and ToRs for Customs Audits, internal and external.
• Generate statistics and reports on both cargo & personnel movements Carry out periodic route surveys across the East African route Corridor
Responsible for preparation of a detailed expediting plan for both imports & exports and share it with LSPS Maintain communication with Suppliers, vendors and shipping contacts throughout the procurement processing
• Other duties assigned by Superior.

Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree or above in Planning, Logistics management, Supply Chain Management or the related. IATA /IMO DG Certificate.
• Certificate in the East African Customs Freight Forwarding Practicing Certificate (EACFFPC).
• Masters in a Logistics related field is preferred CILT certificate is an added advantage
• At least 8 years related working experience, 3 years of supervisory/managerial experience. Experience with air, ocean, rail and road freight forwarding is required.
• Comprehensive experience with all SCM disciplines is required
Experience of Oil and Gas Freight Forwarding Operations in preferred.
• Experience working in Africa on the above is Preferred

Knowledge:
• Extensive knowledge of logistics and foreign trade process.
• Knowledge of declaration, import and export transportation. Intensive knowledge of EMMS required.
• Skillfully use office software and SAP system.
• Excellent skills for office software: MS Word, Power Point, Excel.
• Understanding of oil E&P