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EXIM Manager

Every import and export, by air and sea, with the compliance that comes with it.

Mumbai, on site · Reports to operations

The role

Blue Dot imports consumer brands into India as importer of record and exports Indian brands overseas. The EXIM Manager runs every shipment from the supplier's gate to our warehouse and closes the customs and bank paperwork on each one. Our licensed customs brokerage files with customs; we stay liable as importer, and you own the documents, the decisions and the follow-up.

What you will do

Handle every import and export, by air and by sea, and the compliance that comes with each shipment.
Drive each customs filing: documents before arrival, classification with evidence, examinations, release.
Place the supplier orders the Trade Manager sets, follow each shipment in, and close its bank and customs paperwork.
Keep the one shipment tracker that operations and the Trade Manager read.
Take over the old imports and exports seat and add procurement, with AI doing the routine volume.

What we provide

Customs brokerage, freight and a logistics team in place and scalable on demand: you direct, they execute.

Trade compliance and import support are shared with management until you own them.
Execution support on the AI jobs and the systems from management.
A 90-day plan with three gates, so you know by day 30 how you are doing.

What you must show before an offer

Two or more years running an import desk or customs filings end to end.
You can explain a bill of entry and a remittance record unaided.
You have worked on the customs portal (ICEGATE) and with a bank's import desk.
You can show a shipment tracker from past work.
Shared AI test: write a step-by-step job an AI can run, then catch its three planted errors.

The first 90 days

Weeks 1–2Learn: open shipments, the filings, bills of entry and bank records.

Weeks 3–6Run: each shipment end to end, each one checked.

Weeks 7–10Own: clearance times and bank closures, weekly.

Weeks 11–13Improve: one task handed to AI, one cost removed.

Day 90Gate: every shipment's paperwork closed unaided; one task automated.

The technical ground this seat stands on

This seat runs every import, and every export we take on, and closes the paperwork on each one. Our licensed customs brokerage files with customs; we stay liable as importer, and you own the documents, the decisions and the follow-up. Below is the technical ground the seat stands on. If several lines are new to you, this is not the right role yet, and the check will show it.

Customs and the bill of entry

File before the goods arrive, and know what a late bill of entry costs per day.
Classify with evidence: the tariff heading, the notes that decide it, and the duty stack it leads to: basic duty, the social welfare surcharge, then integrated tax on value plus duty.
Work an examination order: what the officer asked for, which authority issues it, what it costs per day while the goods wait.
Move goods into a bonded warehouse to stop a storage meter, and extend the permission before it lapses.
Read an adjudication order: redemption fine, penalty, the days allowed to re-export, and what starts the clock.
Prove to customs that re-exported goods are the goods that came in: marked photos of each piece, the import set, the packing list.
Know when duty drawback applies on a re-export and what the claim needs before it is filed.
Work on the customs portal (ICEGATE): queries, replies, challans, status that is a filing and status that is not.

Freight, air and sea

Quote and compare air and sea: chargeable weight on volume for bulky goods, LCL against FCL, transit time against cost.
Know the Incoterms in use on our orders and who pays for what at each point.
Read a house and a master bill of lading or air waybill, and get a delivery order released.
Track free days, cut-offs, demurrage and detention, and what each one costs when missed.
Insure a shipment, file a pre-alert, and reconcile the packing list to the cargo count before anything is filed.
Settle the money questions in writing before cargo moves on a return: who pays freight, who refunds, who signs.

Import banking and remittances

Work with the bank's import desk: advance payments and their follow-up, the bill of entry evidence the bank needs, and the import monitoring record that must show matched.
Close a remittance that no goods or no proceeds will ever match: the route the bank requires, the order, the refund trail.
Book a refund of an import payment as a reversal, not as income.
Claim the integrated tax paid at import as input credit from the bill of entry, and reconcile it to the tax return.
Keep proof that customs received a payment, not only that money left our account.

Product rules and licences

Know which products need a licence or registration before import (product standards, drugs and cosmetics, food, wireless, animal or plant origin) and who must hold it.
Know the import policy status of a tariff line: free, restricted or prohibited, and what a restricted line needs.
Know what a pre-packed import must declare under the packaged-commodities rules before it can be sold, and where the label is applied.
Get the goods description on our papers right: product, filling or material, quantity, matching the packing list, with the supplier's invoice corrected if it differs.
On exports: the shipping bill set, the export declaration, the controls declaration, the supplier's consent on a return, and what each one states.

Shipment tracking and follow-up

Keep the one shipment tracker that operations and the Trade Manager read: arrival, filing due, free days end, bond expiry, order deadlines, remittance due.
Treat "in process" as a status, not a filing. Ask for the filing receipt and the date.
Give the Trade Manager a cost note on a delay: paid with dates, still running, the decision needed.
Own the file: photos, receipts and replies sit in our records, not in someone's inbox.
After a hold, change the pre-order check so it does not happen again.

Working with AI and systems

Write a step-by-step job an AI can run, then check its output and catch what it got wrong. This is part of the hiring test.
Work in spreadsheets fluently, and read a bank statement, a settlement and a customs challan without help.

We would rather you decide that now than at day 30. If it reads like your last two years, apply below.

25 work situations in five areas: customs and the bill of entry, freight by air and sea, import banking and remittances, product rules and licences, shipment tracking and follow-up. About 20 minutes.