Customs Business Development Manager
2026-10-14T14:33:33+00:00
Maersk Line
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FULL_TIME
Nairobi
Nairobi
00100
Kenya
Logistics
Sales & Retail, Business Operations, Transportation & Logistics, Management
2026-10-20T17:00:00+00:00
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Maersk Line is the world’s largest container shipping company, known for reliable, flexible and eco-efficient services. We operate 610 container vessels and provide ocean transportation in all parts of the world. But not only do we power some of the world’s largest ships - we also propel the growth ambitions of businesses and individuals all over our pla...
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Sales & Business Development:
- Develop and execute a CHB growth strategy to increase customs clearance revenue and market share.
- In collaboration with Sales, build and maintain a robust CHB sales pipeline, ensuring consistent conversion of qualified prospects into customers.
- Own and lead customer engagement from prospecting through needs discovery, solution development, pricing, negotiation, contracting and implementation.
- Own and achieve agreed CHB sales, customs clearance volume, revenue and gross profit targets.
- Develop business cases for growth initiatives, new services and priority investments.
Customer Acquisition & Retention:
- Drive customer traction by acquiring new CHB customers and expanding CHB service adoption within existing accounts.
- Develop compelling CHB value propositions that address customer pain points related to customs compliance, cargo clearance, border delays and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct regular customer reviews to identify CHB upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
- Monitor customer satisfaction, retention risks and service improvement opportunities, coordinating corrective actions with the relevant teams.
Market Development & Customer Insights:
- Monitor CHB market trends, competitor activity, customs regulations and relevant industry developments.
- Identify new growth opportunities across imports, exports, bonded operations, transit cargo and customs consulting services.
- Represent the company at relevant industry forums, customer events and trade associations.
- Gather customer and market insights and provide structured feedback to Product and Operations teams to enhance service offerings and competitiveness.
Solution Selling & Commercial Enablement:
- Work closely with Sales, Customer Experience, Finance, Compliance and Operations teams to design competitive customs solutions.
- Support pricing, proposal development, tender responses, business cases and commercial negotiations.
- Ensure proposed solutions are compliant, operationally feasible, scalable and aligned with target margins.
- Ensure smooth onboarding and transition of won business into operations, with clear ownership, implementation milestones and customer communication.
Product Performance & Pipeline Management:
- Maintain accurate CHB pipeline, opportunity and customer activity reporting.
- Track pipeline value, conversion rates, revenue growth, customs clearance volumes, gross profit, customer acquisition and customer retention.
- Deliver regular sales forecasts and business development updates, highlighting risks, opportunities and actions required.
- Identify performance gaps and coordinate corrective actions to improve growth, profitability, product penetration and customer outcomes.
Cross-functional Leadership:
- Collaborate with Customs Operations teams to improve service delivery, capacity, consistency and customer experience.
- Coordinate with Commercial teams to prioritize pursuits, develop account plans and expand CHB penetration.
- Partner with Digital and Transformation teams to advance automation, standardization and process improvement.
- Influence stakeholders without direct authority and maintain clear accountability across the opportunity-to-implementation cycle.
Regulatory, Compliance & Governance:
- Maintain current knowledge of customs regulations, trade compliance requirements and government initiatives relevant to target markets.
- Assess regulatory changes and translate them into customer opportunities, service enhancements and implementation requirements.
- Ensure all customer solutions and commercial commitments comply with internal governance, customs regulations and trade compliance standards.
- Engage regulatory authorities, industry bodies and strategic partners where required.
Strategic Projects & Transformation:
- Lead strategic initiatives that enhance CHB capabilities, competitiveness and growth.
- Drive service standardization, digital adoption and continuous improvement across the CHB product.
- Support implementation of new technologies, services and operating models that improve customer experience and profitability.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Someone with:
- A bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, International Trade, Business Administration, Economics or a related discipline.
- Professional certification in Customs, Trade Compliance, Sales, Commercial Management or Supply Chain Management is an advantage.
- 5-10 years of relevant experience in customs brokerage, freight forwarding, logistics, international trade or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience in CHB sales, business development, customer acquisition or solution selling, with evidence of delivering revenue, volume or gross profit growth.
- Strong understanding of customs regulations, customs clearance processes, bonded operations, transit cargo and international trade practices.
- Experience developing value propositions, customer solutions, pricing inputs, proposals, tenders and business cases.
- Experience working effectively across Sales, Product, Operations, Customer Experience, Finance and Compliance functions
- Develop and execute a CHB growth strategy to increase customs clearance revenue and market share.
- In collaboration with Sales, build and maintain a robust CHB sales pipeline, ensuring consistent conversion of qualified prospects into customers.
- Own and lead customer engagement from prospecting through needs discovery, solution development, pricing, negotiation, contracting and implementation.
- Own and achieve agreed CHB sales, customs clearance volume, revenue and gross profit targets.
- Develop business cases for growth initiatives, new services and priority investments.
- Drive customer traction by acquiring new CHB customers and expanding CHB service adoption within existing accounts.
- Develop compelling CHB value propositions that address customer pain points related to customs compliance, cargo clearance, border delays and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct regular customer reviews to identify CHB upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
- Monitor customer satisfaction, retention risks and service improvement opportunities, coordinating corrective actions with the relevant teams.
- Monitor CHB market trends, competitor activity, customs regulations and relevant industry developments.
- Identify new growth opportunities across imports, exports, bonded operations, transit cargo and customs consulting services.
- Represent the company at relevant industry forums, customer events and trade associations.
- Gather customer and market insights and provide structured feedback to Product and Operations teams to enhance service offerings and competitiveness.
- Work closely with Sales, Customer Experience, Finance, Compliance and Operations teams to design competitive customs solutions.
- Support pricing, proposal development, tender responses, business cases and commercial negotiations.
- Ensure proposed solutions are compliant, operationally feasible, scalable and aligned with target margins.
- Ensure smooth onboarding and transition of won business into operations, with clear ownership, implementation milestones and customer communication.
- Maintain accurate CHB pipeline, opportunity and customer activity reporting.
- Track pipeline value, conversion rates, revenue growth, customs clearance volumes, gross profit, customer acquisition and customer retention.
- Deliver regular sales forecasts and business development updates, highlighting risks, opportunities and actions required.
- Identify performance gaps and coordinate corrective actions to improve growth, profitability, product penetration and customer outcomes.
- Collaborate with Customs Operations teams to improve service delivery, capacity, consistency and customer experience.
- Coordinate with Commercial teams to prioritize pursuits, develop account plans and expand CHB penetration.
- Partner with Digital and Transformation teams to advance automation, standardization and process improvement.
- Influence stakeholders without direct authority and maintain clear accountability across the opportunity-to-implementation cycle.
- Maintain current knowledge of customs regulations, trade compliance requirements and government initiatives relevant to target markets.
- Assess regulatory changes and translate them into customer opportunities, service enhancements and implementation requirements.
- Ensure all customer solutions and commercial commitments comply with internal governance, customs regulations and trade compliance standards.
- Engage regulatory authorities, industry bodies and strategic partners where required.
- Lead strategic initiatives that enhance CHB capabilities, competitiveness and growth.
- Drive service standardization, digital adoption and continuous improvement across the CHB product.
- Support implementation of new technologies, services and operating models that improve customer experience and profitability.
- CHB growth strategy
- Sales pipeline management
- Customer engagement
- Solution development
- Pricing and negotiation
- Contracting
- Business case development
- Customer acquisition
- Value proposition development
- Customer satisfaction monitoring
- Market trend analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Customs regulations knowledge
- Cross-selling and upselling
- Product and Operations feedback
- Commercial solution design
- Proposal development
- Tender response
- Pipeline reporting
- Sales forecasting
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Service delivery improvement
- Account planning
- Digital transformation
- Regulatory compliance
- Trade compliance
- Strategic initiative leadership
- Service standardization
- Process improvement
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, International Trade, Business Administration, Economics or a related discipline.
- Professional certification in Customs, Trade Compliance, Sales, Commercial Management or Supply Chain Management is an advantage.
- Demonstrated experience in CHB sales, business development, customer acquisition or solution selling, with evidence of delivering revenue, volume or gross profit growth.
- Strong understanding of customs regulations, customs clearance processes, bonded operations, transit cargo and international trade practices.
- Experience developing value propositions, customer solutions, pricing inputs, proposals, tenders and business cases.
- Experience working effectively across Sales, Product, Operations, Customer Experience, Finance and Compliance functions
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Vacancy title:
Customs Business Development Manager
[Type: FULL_TIME, Industry: Logistics, Category: Sales & Retail, Business Operations, Transportation & Logistics, Management]
Jobs at:
Maersk Line
Deadline of this Job:
Tuesday, October 20 2026
Duty Station:
Nairobi | Nairobi
Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, October 14 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
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JOB DETAILS:
Maersk Line is the world’s largest container shipping company, known for reliable, flexible and eco-efficient services. We operate 610 container vessels and provide ocean transportation in all parts of the world. But not only do we power some of the world’s largest ships - we also propel the growth ambitions of businesses and individuals all over our pla...
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Sales & Business Development:
- Develop and execute a CHB growth strategy to increase customs clearance revenue and market share.
- In collaboration with Sales, build and maintain a robust CHB sales pipeline, ensuring consistent conversion of qualified prospects into customers.
- Own and lead customer engagement from prospecting through needs discovery, solution development, pricing, negotiation, contracting and implementation.
- Own and achieve agreed CHB sales, customs clearance volume, revenue and gross profit targets.
- Develop business cases for growth initiatives, new services and priority investments.
Customer Acquisition & Retention:
- Drive customer traction by acquiring new CHB customers and expanding CHB service adoption within existing accounts.
- Develop compelling CHB value propositions that address customer pain points related to customs compliance, cargo clearance, border delays and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct regular customer reviews to identify CHB upselling and cross-selling opportunities.
- Monitor customer satisfaction, retention risks and service improvement opportunities, coordinating corrective actions with the relevant teams.
Market Development & Customer Insights:
- Monitor CHB market trends, competitor activity, customs regulations and relevant industry developments.
- Identify new growth opportunities across imports, exports, bonded operations, transit cargo and customs consulting services.
- Represent the company at relevant industry forums, customer events and trade associations.
- Gather customer and market insights and provide structured feedback to Product and Operations teams to enhance service offerings and competitiveness.
Solution Selling & Commercial Enablement:
- Work closely with Sales, Customer Experience, Finance, Compliance and Operations teams to design competitive customs solutions.
- Support pricing, proposal development, tender responses, business cases and commercial negotiations.
- Ensure proposed solutions are compliant, operationally feasible, scalable and aligned with target margins.
- Ensure smooth onboarding and transition of won business into operations, with clear ownership, implementation milestones and customer communication.
Product Performance & Pipeline Management:
- Maintain accurate CHB pipeline, opportunity and customer activity reporting.
- Track pipeline value, conversion rates, revenue growth, customs clearance volumes, gross profit, customer acquisition and customer retention.
- Deliver regular sales forecasts and business development updates, highlighting risks, opportunities and actions required.
- Identify performance gaps and coordinate corrective actions to improve growth, profitability, product penetration and customer outcomes.
Cross-functional Leadership:
- Collaborate with Customs Operations teams to improve service delivery, capacity, consistency and customer experience.
- Coordinate with Commercial teams to prioritize pursuits, develop account plans and expand CHB penetration.
- Partner with Digital and Transformation teams to advance automation, standardization and process improvement.
- Influence stakeholders without direct authority and maintain clear accountability across the opportunity-to-implementation cycle.
Regulatory, Compliance & Governance:
- Maintain current knowledge of customs regulations, trade compliance requirements and government initiatives relevant to target markets.
- Assess regulatory changes and translate them into customer opportunities, service enhancements and implementation requirements.
- Ensure all customer solutions and commercial commitments comply with internal governance, customs regulations and trade compliance standards.
- Engage regulatory authorities, industry bodies and strategic partners where required.
Strategic Projects & Transformation:
- Lead strategic initiatives that enhance CHB capabilities, competitiveness and growth.
- Drive service standardization, digital adoption and continuous improvement across the CHB product.
- Support implementation of new technologies, services and operating models that improve customer experience and profitability.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Someone with:
- A bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Logistics, International Trade, Business Administration, Economics or a related discipline.
- Professional certification in Customs, Trade Compliance, Sales, Commercial Management or Supply Chain Management is an advantage.
- 5-10 years of relevant experience in customs brokerage, freight forwarding, logistics, international trade or a related field.
- Demonstrated experience in CHB sales, business development, customer acquisition or solution selling, with evidence of delivering revenue, volume or gross profit growth.
- Strong understanding of customs regulations, customs clearance processes, bonded operations, transit cargo and international trade practices.
- Experience developing value propositions, customer solutions, pricing inputs, proposals, tenders and business cases.
- Experience working effectively across Sales, Product, Operations, Customer Experience, Finance and Compliance functions
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 60
Level of Education: bachelor degree
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