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Customs Executive (Sea Freight)
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Customs Executive (Road Freight)
Ligentia —Leeds
- Full-time
- Customer service
- Organisational skills
Operational Compliance Executive
Ligentia —Leeds
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- Organisational skills
Service Delivery Executive (Road)
Ligentia —Leeds
- Full-time
- Business development
- Continuous improvement
- Communication skills
Supply Chain Coordinator
Kinisla —Ossett
- Full-time
- Analysis skills
- Continuous improvement
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Employee discount
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Customer Solutions Project Manager
Ligentia —Leeds
- Full-time
- PMP
- Agile
- Communication skills
Ocean Operator
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- Full-time
- Microsoft Word
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Yusen Logistics (UK) —Leeds
- £31,369.74 a year
- Full-time
- Forklift
- Referral programme
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Yusen Logistics (UK) —Leeds
- £36,197.60 a year
- Full-time
- Bachelor's degree
- Communication skills
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Customs Executive (Sea Freight)

Ligentia -
Leeds

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Job details

Full-time
12 days ago

Qualifications

Import/export documentation
Customer service
Freight forwarding experience
Organisational skills
Time management

Full job description

Join Ligentia!

As a Customs Executive (Sea), you will play a vital role in our Central Customs Team. Reporting to the Senior Customs Executive, you will focus primarily on Sea Freight Customs Entries -ensuring seamless clearances, resolving compliance queries, and managing post-clearance activities, all while maintaining strict adherence to HMRC regulations, customer SLAs, and internal standards.

Your Role:

Process accurate UK import customs declarations within agreed SLAs, managing sea freight entries in line with HMRC and customer requirements.
Prepare and submit inventory-linked customs declarations using Destin8, CNS, and associated customs platforms using CargoWise.
Review and validate commercial invoices, packing lists, bills of lading, and supporting documents.
Calculate customs duty and import VAT, raise customer invoices, and complete post-clearance activities (including amendments, corrections, and duty/VAT reclaims).
Monitor declarations, resolve customs holds and documentary discrepancies, and handle internal and customer queries promptly.
Support commodity code classification (CPCs) and compliance activities, build effective relationships across carriers and internal teams, and contribute to continuous improvement within the team.

What You’ll Need:

Essential

Hands-on experience processing customs declarations in a freight forwarding, logistics, or customs environment.
Strong understanding of UK import customs procedures (CPCs) and documentation.
Hands-on experience using CargoWise (or similar customs/freight management software).
Solid understanding of customs duty, import VAT, commodity classification, and customs valuation principles.
Excellent organisational skills, high attention to detail, strong time management, and top-tier customer service skills.
Ability to prioritise workloads and work effectively in a fast-paced operational environment.

Desirable

Specialised sea freight customs clearance experience highly preferred.
Professional customs qualification (e.g. BIFA or UK Customs Academy).

Why Ligentia? Why now?

Accelerated growth in one of the most dynamic industries you can imagine. Brilliant customers including some of the world’s leading retailers and best-known brands. A tech vision and roadmap that will turn heads for all the right reasons. And colleagues with high commitment and unrivalled knowledge, combined with low ego. A flexible work environment that is collaborative, stimulating and shares genuine feelgood for the work we do together. However you look at it, Ligentia is a great place to be right now.

Ready to join us? Apply now!

To apply, please send an up-to-date resume to [email protected].

Ligentia requests that recruitment agencies do not speculatively submit CVs to us unless expressly requested to do so by a member of our People team. Any CVs sent to us on an unrequested speculative basis will be ignored.

Ligentia will not be liable for any fee or commission payments claimed by a recruitment agent in respect to the employment by us of a candidate whose CV was sent to us on an unrequested speculative basis.

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Customs Executive (Sea Freight)

Customs Executive (Road Freight)

Operational Compliance Executive

Service Delivery Executive (Road)

Supply Chain Coordinator

Customer Solutions Project Manager

Ocean Operator

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LGV Class 2 Driver

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