Do you enjoy turning complex international trade requirements into practical, scalable controls?
Would you like to lead a team delivering compliant and reliable customer shipments worldwide?
Join our International Logistics team
The International Logistics team supports international customer deliveries across borders. It ensures goods move compliantly, predictably and under control. The team works with internal functions, local entities and specialist logistics providers.
Success. The Softcat Way.
It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.
Lead compliant and reliable international logistics
Reporting to the Head of International Logistics, you'll be Softcat's technical and operational authority for international import and export activity. You'll lead the International Logistics and Compliance Team, translating complex trade requirements into practical, scalable controls. You'll balance commercial pace with effective compliance and reliable customer delivery across multiple countries.
As International Logistics & Compliance Manager, you'll be responsible for:
- Acting as Softcat's operational subject matter expert for international customs and trade compliance.
- Validating shipping models, routes to market, Incoterms and IOR or EOR arrangements before execution.
- Owning the day-to-day control framework for international logistics compliance and maintaining audit-ready records.
- Leading, coaching and developing the International Logistics and Compliance Team.
- Overseeing logistics partners, shipment exceptions and escalations while driving practical process and cost efficiencies.
We'd love you to have
- Substantial hands-on experience in international logistics, customs operations or trade compliance across multiple countries or regions.
- Strong practical knowledge of import and export declarations, HS classification, customs valuation, origin, Incoterms and shipping documentation.
- Experience managing controlled-goods or export-licensing processes and sanctions or denied-party screening controls.
- People leadership experience, including allocating operational workload, coaching and developing technical capability.
- Confident stakeholder management, excellent attention to detail, analytical judgement and calm problem-solving.
We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!
Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
- Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
Working with us
Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
Join us
To become part of the success story, please apply now.
If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/
Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.