Major Responsibilities:
61 Interface across business & regional leadership while acting as an integral part of the business teams to ensure global trade compliance policies and procedures are aligned and integrated with business operations.
61 Develops business trade compliance strategy, incorporating knowledge of industry, costs, capabilities, and market conditions and at the same time, ensuring alignment with other strategies such as the business supply chains and commercial strategies, Global Supply Management (GSM) functional strategy, regional GSM strategies, and the global trade compliance strategy
61 Responsible to govern and monitor Country of Origin determination & valuation for the business
61 Monitor regulatory changes, customs rulings and court decisions pertaining to those regulations in order to take appropriate action to benefit company's interests
61 Respond to inquiries from businesses on regulatory impacts & requirements
61 Responsible for any correction of non-compliance found through corporate auditing
61 Assures proper risk management strategies are in use to ensure compliance with import/export requirements in cost effective manner
61 Determining most advantageous duty rate or special duty savings program (drawback) to reduce total landed cost
61 Drives to streamline and optimization customs clearance process to reduce overall lead-times in cooperation with the businesses
61 Escalation point with businesses and brokers for timely imports, timely classification of products

Skill Requirements:
61 Bachelor’s Degree
61 US Customs Brokerage License Broker
61 Minimum 8 years of experience in Trade Compliance or customs experience
61 Minimum 2 years of Trade Compliance Import/Export supervisory experience
61 Minimum 5 years of experience working in SAP GTS (preferred)
61 Experience with Mexico & Canadian customs
61 Knowledge in HTS Classification, Export Compliance and Foreign Trade Agreements
61 Experience in organizations within various areas of trade compliance
61 Experience in a business operations role
61 Experience working in a matrix environment or on a cross functional team