About ITT::
ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) is a diversified global leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions serving the flow, aerospace and defense, transportation, industrial, and energy markets. Through operational execution, innovation, and disciplined capital deployment, including strategic acquisitions such as SPX FLOW, ITT partners with its customers to deliver enduring solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life.
Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, ITT has a market cap of roughly $20 billion and employs more than 15,000 people across 40 countries and serves customers in approximately 125 countries. Following the acquisition of SPX FLOW, the company is expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenue.
Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA:
Flow Technologies: A global leader in, providing a broad portfolio of pumps, valves, mixing and agitation equipment, heat transfer, homogenizers, separation, water and wastewater treatment, and engineered process solutions.Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history), Anhydro, APV, Bornemann, Bran+Luebbe, C’treat, Engineered Valves, Gerstenberg Schröder, Habonim, Johnson Pump, Lightnin, Philadelphia, Plenty, PRO Cast, Rheinhütte, Seital Separation, Stelzer, Svanehøj, Tigerholm, Uutechnic, VIDAR, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell.
Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include Friction Technologies, KONI and Axtone.
Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include ITT Cannon, Enidine, Aerospace Controls and kSARIA.
Resumen de Posición:
Manage and comprehensively monitor the company's import and export operations, ensuring their proper execution from cargo preparation or availability at origin to its arrival at the plant or delivery to the customer, as applicable.
This position will be responsible for coordinating the documentary, logistical, customs, banking, and administrative aspects associated with foreign trade operations, ensuring compliance with deadlines, costs, regulatory requirements, and established commercial terms.
It will also provide support to the Purchasing unit in issuing and tracking purchase orders, requesting and analyzing quotes, contacting national and international suppliers, and other activities necessary to guarantee the timely supply of materials, products, and services required by the company.
The role requires ongoing interaction with suppliers, customers, customs brokers, freight forwarders, carriers, and internal departments such as Planning, Engineering, Warehouse, Finance, Sales, and Contract Administration.
Responsabilidades Esenciales:
- Comprehensive management of import operations, from cargo availability at origin to shipment entry and administrative closure; ensuring operations within expected costs and timeframes, as well as regulatory and documentary compliance at origin and destination.
- Comprehensive management of export operations, from cargo availability at our facility to delivery to the customer according to the agreed INCOTERM; ensuring on-time delivery and regulatory and documentary compliance at origin and destination.
- Management of purchase orders to foreign suppliers, from requesting quotes, comparing alternatives, reviewing terms/costs/deadlines, to awarding and formally placing the purchase order.
- Monitoring and activation of external purchase orders, focusing on meeting supplier-promised and customer-committed delivery dates, as well as consolidating shipments for cost optimization.
- Development of new suppliers according to the corporate process for adding, removing, and modifying suppliers.
• Support for local purchasing processes, both for production and non-production. • Collaborate with Planning, Engineering, Quality, Warehouse, Finance, and Sales to ensure on-time and cost-effective delivery and identify opportunities for shared process improvement.
- Maintain up-to-date records of information and key performance indicators for the area to ensure traceability, control, and reporting of our work.
Requisitos del Puesto:
Minimum professional and educational background required (including years of experience).
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Foreign Trade, International Trade, or Customs Administration
- Experience: 3 to 4 years of experience in import and export operations, preferably in manufacturing companies.
- Skills: Advanced proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office tools, especially Outlook. Intermediate/advanced English, primarily for reading and reviewing documentation, written communication, and contacting international suppliers.
Experience with ERP systems.
