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Clearance Agent-Lead
Role summary
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The Clearance Agent-Lead manages customs-clearance activities, ensuring shipments are processed accurately, legally, and on time. Typical requirements include experience in freight forwarding, customs brokerage, import and export documentation, and familiarity with Philippine customs regulations. The role generally requires strong communication, organization, problem-solving, and computer skills, with the ability to coordinate customers, government agencies, brokers, and internal operations teams. Experience leading or coaching staff is expected, along with close attention to compliance, shipment details, and service standards. The successful candidate should work well under pressure, handle changing priorities, resolve clearance issues promptly, and support FedEx procedures and customer commitments. Relevant customs, logistics, or supply-chain qualifications are advantageous.
Can I work in the Philippines?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: Work permit route with the local-first test; ports and trucks-for-hire also need proof that no Filipino is available; warehouse and driver jobs go to Filipinos.
Before you apply: Driver jobs need a licence that counts in that country, and a foreign one may not carry over: Japan's truck-driver visa asks for a class 1 licence, Qatar residents sit a driving test, and Ireland's permit list asks for a CE or C1E truck licence or one it recognises.
Watch for: Country and regional manager posts at global carriers and couriers are the realistic foreign hires.
Official source: Republic Act 11659 (Public Service Act amendment, 21 March 2022), section 25. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the Philippines
Usual for Logistics jobs in the Philippines, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Senior expat packages often add a housing allowance; local-hire contracts do not |
|---|---|
| Relocation | Employer files the permit and visa; fees are agreed in the contract; moving help for senior hires only |
| Flights | Yearly home flight in some senior expat packages; none for local hires |
| Pay and overtime | Night work (10 pm to 6 am) pays 10% more, overtime 25% more; not for managers or off-site staff (by law) |
| Contract | Regular after at most 6 months' probation (by law); foreigners' contracts follow the permit, 1 to 3 years |
| Leave | 5 days after 1 year; 10 regular holidays and 8 special days in 2026 (by law) |
| Income tax | 0% to PHP 250,000 a year (about USD 4,000), then 15% to 35%; 13th month tax-free to PHP 90,000 |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
About Federal Express Corporation AMEA
Federal Express Corporation, commonly known as FedEx, is a global transportation, express delivery, and logistics company serving customers in more than 220 countries and territories. Its services include time-definite international and domestic shipping, freight transportation, customs clearance, supply-chain support, and e-commerce delivery. FedEx connects businesses and individuals through a large air and ground network supported by technology, logistics facilities, aircraft, vehicles, and local operating teams. In the Philippines, the company handles international parcel and freight movements and works closely with customs authorities, importers, exporters, and corporate customers. The business places strong emphasis on safety, regulatory compliance, reliability, customer service, and operational efficiency. Employees typically work in a structured, performance-focused environment where teamwork, accurate documentation, and timely shipment handling are important.