CHB Assistant Manager - Los Angeles

This position will follow a Monday through Friday schedule. This role can be performed from any U.S. time zone. Employees are expected to work 8:00 AM-5:00 PM based on their local time. This is a crucial role encompassing a range of tasks and responsibilities for effective supervision and delegation of work. As an Assistant Manager, you should possess expertise in import, transportation, logistics, and customs brokerage.

A strong passion for supporting clients and the ability to inspire colleagues are essential to ensure the timely completion of all branch tasks and to deliver excellent customer service.
Job Responsibilities:

• Develop and motivate a team environment, providing support to direct reports to optimize employee performance and professional growth. Fostering our culture of determination, innovation, and value.
• Actively pursue new sales leads for our various services while maintaining current clients.
• Assist in managing payable/receivables/quoting and profit & loss statement.
• Provides guidance and supervision for the daily operation of CHB colleagues.
• Monitors workflow and accurate completion of daily operations such as customers correspondence, handling claims, processing post entry work, maintaining logs, handling collections and resolving customer problems.
• Manages the oversight and responsibilities of office colleagues, reviews progress, fields inquiries and resolves technical problems.
• Advances effective strategies to adjust personnel and assignments to meet deadlines. This includes monitoring and providing guidance to colleagues on all shifts.
• Conducts regular audit reviews to ensure that procedures and paper flow is being followed. Sending information and feedback timely to manager or other designated team members.
• Stays current on industry changes and company policy and procedure changes. Communicates to team all updates to ensure compliance.
• Foster and uphold a positive rapport with CBP and other government agencies regarding entry resolution.
• Performs additional duties as assigned by management.

May require occasional travel (Up to 20% of time).

Required Qualifications:

• Licensed Customs Broker
• 3+ years of supervisory/managerial experience

The salary range of compensation for this position will be $75,000-$95,000 based on experience and education.
All Deringer employees should be fully committed to the Core Values:

Passion, Respect, Integrity, Expertise, Innovative Solutions, Relationships, Support, Determination, Value and a High Level of Accountability

In addition, the following competencies are specific to this position:

Analytical – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; applies feedback to improve performance; monitors own work to ensure quality; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; demonstrates ability to multi-task and establish priorities.
Customer Oriented – Manages difficult or emotional customer situations; responds promptly to customer needs; solicits customer feedback to improve service; demonstrates ability to speak clearly and persuasively in positive and negative situations; listens and gets clarification; responds well to questions.
Interpersonal Skills – Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; maintains confidentiality; listens to others without interrupting; keeps emotions under control; remains open to others’ ideas and tries new things; takes responsibility for own actions; contributes to building a positive team spirit; supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.
Motivation – Sets and achieves challenging goals; demonstrates persistence and overcomes obstacles; measures self against standard of excellence; takes calculated risks to accomplish goals.
Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; develops alternative solutions;…