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Director, International Trade @Odyssey Energy Solutions

[Hiring] Director, International Trade @Odyssey Energy Solutions

Mar 25, 2025 - Odyssey Energy Solutions is hiring a remote Director, International Trade. 💸 Salary: unspecified. 📍Location: Europe, Asia, Africa.

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Role Description

This role involves leading the company’s international trade and trade credit operations.

  • Overseeing Import and Export Operations: Manage and coordinate the movement of goods across international borders, ensuring timely delivery and compliance with regulations.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with all relevant international and local country trade regulations including customs laws, tariffs, and documentation requirements.
  • Client Management: Establish herself/himself as a trusted advisor to clients for all matters relating to international trade, procurement, and procurement finance.
  • Deal Negotiations and Drafting: Lead deal discussions with clients to negotiate optimal terms to balance risks and returns and safeguard organizational interests at all stages. Draft and negotiate robust error-free documentation that avoids delays and risks.
  • Payments Security: Coordinate with own and client banks as required to negotiate right mechanisms (e.g. letters of credit, guarantees as required, etc.) for payment security.
  • Logistics Coordination: Develop and maintain strong working relationships with freight forwarders and customs brokers to streamline processes. Plan and coordinate logistics for international shipments, including transportation, warehousing, and distribution.
  • Contracts Management: Manage and enforce contract terms handling variations, claims, and resolving disputes.
  • Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks related to international trade, including payment risk, risk of delays, regulatory changes, and supply chain disruptions.
  • Analysis and Budgeting: Analyze costs associated with import and export operations, develop budgets, and identify areas for cost reduction.
  • Data Analysis and Reporting: Regularly analyze trade data and trends to inform strategic decisions. Create reports for senior management on trade performance.
  • Team Collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, including sales, finance, and logistics, to ensure streamlined operations. Be the go-to expert in the company for global trade-related matters, providing expertise and guidance to teams.

Qualifications

  • Proven expertise in all aspects of international trade and import/export operations
  • At least 10 years of relevant experience, with significant leadership responsibilities in a similar role
  • A degree in international trade, supply chain, procurement, finance, trade laws, or a related field
  • Excellence in structuring and negotiating complex trade deals
  • Solid techno-commercial experience of trade terms, financial instruments, compliance requirements, and legal drafting and contract management
  • Hands-on, leading the team from the front approach
  • Attention to detail
  • Preferably, experience in the solar industry
  • Preferably, experience of transactions in Africa and India, our biggest markets

Requirements

  • Remote working flexibility, coordinating with teammates in Asian, European, and African time zones, requiring multiple hours of working-hour overlap with these time zones.

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Director, International Trade @Odyssey Energy Solutions
Sales / Business
Salary 💸 unspecified
Remote Location
Europe, Asia, Africa
Job Type full-time
Posted Mar 25, 2025
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