You will manage and oversee customs, duties, and carnets across McLaren Automotive Limited in line with UK, EU, and international standards. This role is responsible for coordinating internal documentation with suppliers and logistics teams to ensure smooth and timely clearance of goods.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Customs & Logistics Coordination: You will act as the primary point of contact for customs-related activities for parts and vehicle shipments.
• Ensure full compliance with UK, EU, and international customs regulations, including documentation, classification, and duty management.
• Hands-on management of ATA Carnets, including applications, compliance tracking, voucher control, and carnet discharge processes.
• Coordinate and track international movements of vehicles and parts, ensuring correct customs documentation, carnet validation, and timely clearance for testing and operational activities.
• Liaise with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and internal teams to streamline import/export processes.
• Maintain accurate records and reporting for audits and regulatory reviews.
• Develop and implement best practices for customs handling and logistics efficiency.
• Agree, implement, and manage Statement of Works for all activities with customs brokers.
• Apply and manage temporary import documentation, for test activities and other business initiatives.
• Responsible for documentation and logistics of air and sea freight transportation

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience in international customs operations, ideally within the automotive or engineering sector.
• Strong understanding of customs regulations (UK/EU/global), including temporary imports for testing purposes.
• Experience working in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

What You'll Bring:

• Familiarity with ERP systems and customs software tools.
• Experience working with freight forwarders and customs brokers.
• Commodity classification and duty awareness.
• Proactive & Self-Sufficient: Able to anticipate issues and take independent ownership of problem resolution while engaging wider teams as necessary.
• Strong Communicator: Confident in presenting technical issues and influencing stakeholders across supplier, engineering, and plant operations teams.
• Organised & Delivery-Focused: Skilled at prioritising tasks under time pressure and managing competing launch requirements.
• Adaptable & Resilient: Comfortable working in dynamic build environments with changing priorities and urgent problem escalations.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset: Dedicated to advancing processes, tools, and supplier capability.
• Professional & Team-Oriented: Works collaboratively across disciplines and cultures, maintaining strong relationships and focusing on end results

What We'll Do for You

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• Structured career development framework
• 25 days' holiday, plus bank holiday. Annual buy & sell up to five days
• Enhanced company pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus award
• Private medical insurance and health cash plan
• Life assurance benefit
• Ability to apply for a sabbatical of up to one year after only two years' service
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• Generous parental leave policies
• A range of wellbeing initiatives, such as employee assistance programme and free financial & mortgage advice

Who Are We?

McLaren Automotive exists to create breath-taking performance road cars. It takes a community to do what we do. A diverse group of people with many areas of expertise, united by their passion to deliver visionary products and set new benchmarks. McLaren Automotive commits to equal opportunity for all. Diversity, Equality and Inclusion is at the heart of our impact, it drives our innovation and enables us to truly create something special. Join us on our journey.

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The role also involves connecting with Global teams, supporting initiatives towards achieving Functional Alignment, focusing on people training, upskilling, developing backups & support on cross-functional assignments, and recognising, rewarding and motivating the team.

Additionally, the role requires periodic review of Global Classifications / Customs Rules across Countries / Report Submission, Permit / License applications, Customs Privileges, to assess right duties / taxes, managing Customs Operations remotely and effectively with special focus on Priorities, duty payments, deliveries tracking with carriers / CHB’s, and coordinating with Tax, Finance, Supply Chain, Logistics function, plant-based teams on various aspects related to Custom Operations, duties, taxes, forecast reviews, budget, etc.

The role also involves FTA Analysis on eligible parts, further study & report out on RVC validation, managing regulatory changes on Rules, trade notices, circulars, notifications with possible impact assessment, and trade incentives, and implementing as required SVB regulations, procedures, Valuation & transfer pricing.

The role requires identifying opportunities to improve trade duty competitiveness, minimise compliance risks, and reduce costs ensuring adhering to statutory rules, overseeing Customs Broker PO utilisation, coordination with Purchase, & Finance for timely renewals, ensuring no delay in document filing and Nil Customs Penalty / incremental cost, and constant focus on Container placements, Inland transportation, vessel connectivity to avoid detention / port demurrage charges.

Controls & Quality include adequacy of controls for all critical classification processes / Customs operations via periodic audit & report out, coordinating closely with external consultants on audits of the classification & implementation of necessary corrective actions till closure, mitigating risks related to cross-border transactions, identifying potential compliance gaps, assessing their impact, and developing strategies to minimise risk exposure.

The role also involves fostering a compliance culture throughout the organisation by emphasising its importance & proactively driving trade compliance to deliver competitiveness E2E, leading Governance / KPI’s reviews on HS Classification & Operations & process improvement, leveraging digital tools for efficient compliance management, understanding customs automation systems, data analytics, and risk assessment software, and leveraging a digitalised and transparent data value chain to regulatory changes and capture trade opportunities.

Technology involves supporting IT requirements for global customs to deploy tools / systems / best business practices, and ability to represent with Customs Officials / Higher authorities on queries, disputes, management of workforce with diverse responsibilities / work locations, and comfortable with handling multi-level of communications and interfaces.

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