Job Title: Import Manager

Department: Company Goods Category
Status of Job: Permanent
Job Level: Mid Level
Location: Head office, Tejgaon

Context and environment:
Shwapno is the place where tens of millions of people expect their dream come in true- the dream of getting fair price & weight and pleasant shopping experience. Shwapno does not want to get exposure as superstore, rather aspire to serve the community as “neighborhood chain store” across the country primarily from district level bringing all necessities under the same roof. Neighborhood chain store, the concept that Shwapno wants to apply, refers to the chain store that will exist in every locality with close proximity. Accordingly, ACI Logistics establishes Shwapno in the somewhat deep locality instead of establishing on the thoroughfares or on main roundabouts. In general, people have to visit in wet markets, which are full of mud, toxic air, and musty ambiance, for their everyday, weekly and even fortnightly shopping for perishable as well as fast moving consumer goods. Interestingly, people of Bangladesh are welcoming the concept of superstore or neighborhood chain store with lots of enthusiasm and excitement.

At Shwapno we take pride of our skilled human resources. Each employee of Shwapno plays a vital role in the operation, progress and success of the organization. Building trust with each other is the most important step to winning trust of our customers.

Organizational culture:

  • To show respect for the individual
  • To strive for excellence
  • To act with integrity

Job Responsibilities:

  1. Design and plan overall import of company goods and General merchandise to achieve Annual Business Plan (ABP).
  2. Administrating, shaping, formulating and enforcing international sourcing plans and programs and supervising the steps that bring forth the business income, development plans and programs to achieve best benefit in international sourcing.
  3. Make the import plan as per rolling forecast of imported items.
  4. Working closely with the planning, buying and category units to generate demand and fulfill the delivery within in lead-time.
  5. Meeting the direct import target value and profitability.
  6. Ensuring that third party importers provide necessary documents to safeguard the regulatory requirements of imported products.
  7. Analyzing data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends.
  8. Conducting regular market survey to evaluate market intelligence of products availability, pricing, product range information at different market to make best deal from international sourcing.
  9. Fostering trust relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services.
  10. Sourcing new products line, select and negotiate for the fulfillment of customer demand.
  11. Identifying and utilize new source to get best price at different country.
  12. Assisting Head of business in the development of strategic plan through required business analysis and sharing new innovative ideas.

Experience:

  • 3-4 years’ experience in Commercial and international sourcing.

Educational Requirement:

  • Graduate/Post graduate from any disciple from reputed university, Business graduate will be preferred.

Additional Requirement:

Age Limit: Maximum 35 years

Skill Requirement:

  • Highly energetic physically and mentally.
  • Excellent negotiation skills.
  • Very good at Excel and MS Power Point
  • Confident.
  • Team player.
  • Motivator.
  • Analytical, decision maker, planner.
  • Tech savvy.
  • Process oriented.
  • Target oriented.
  • Responsible and matured.
  • Proficient in computer operation specially MS Power Point, MS Excel and MS Word; Working experience in SAP will be preferred.

Career progression:

  • ACI Logistics Limited is committed to employing the best candidate for all its vacancies. This means looking for applicants from the largest possible pool of talent, both internally and externally.
  • ACI Logistics Limited diversity and inclusion policy ensure there is no discrimination in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability.
  • ACI Logistics Limited encourages people from different backgrounds and cultures.

If you are interested to work with ACI Logistics Limited, please apply online –

Application Deadline: June 10, 2017

Head office:  Novo Tower, Level-8
270, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh