Export manager
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Job description
Key Responsibilities • Manage and coordinate end-to-end export operations from order confirmation to final shipment and delivery. • Develop and maintain relationships with international buyers, importers, agents, and business partners. • Coordinate export documentation, including commercial invoices, packing lists, certificates of origin, phytosanitary certificates, shipping documents, and other required documents. • Ensure compliance with Ethiopian export regulations, customs requirements, and international trade procedures. • Coordinate with government authorities, customs, banks, shipping lines, freight forwarders, and inspection bodies. • Manage export schedules, shipment bookings, logistics, and delivery timelines. • Monitor export orders, contracts, payments, foreign currency transactions, and outstanding receivables. • Coordinate with coffee sourcing, quality control, warehouse, operations, and finance teams to ensure smooth export execution. • Monitor international market conditions, buyer requirements, pricing, and export opportunities. • Prepare export reports, shipment status updates, and management reports. • Identify and resolve documentation, logistics, customs, and shipment-related issues. • Ensure proper filing and traceability of all export records and transaction documents. • Support the development of new international markets and expansion of the company’s export business. • Experience in coffee export and knowledge of Ethiopian coffee export procedures is a strong advantage.