Global Trade Compliance Manager

About the Role

The Global Trade Compliance Manager provides tactical leadership for trade compliance within an assigned region as part of the Global Purchasing organization. The role manages regional import and export compliance activities, classification and valuation controls, special trade programs, customs broker performance, government filings and inquiries, supply chain security requirements, and trade compliance data. The manager partners with Purchasing, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Tax, Legal, IT, logistics providers, customs brokers, and site teams to support compliant and efficient cross-border operations.

Responsibilities

Regional Trade Compliance Leadership

• Serve as the regional operational point of contact for customs and trade compliance and coordinate priorities across countries, sites, and business teams within the assigned region.
• Translate global trade compliance requirements into regional work plans, controls, procedures, training, and monitoring activities.
• Lead assigned employees or functional resources, establish priorities, monitor work quality, provide coaching, and escalate material compliance risks.
• Partner with Global Purchasing and regional leaders to integrate trade compliance requirements into sourcing, supplier, logistics, and operational decisions.

Import, Export and Classification Compliance

• Oversee tariff and export-control classification processes, including HTS and ECCN data governance across ERP, trade compliance, and broker systems.
• Coordinate import and export documentation, customs declarations, valuation, country-of-origin, assists, reconciliation, recordkeeping, and other required data elements.
• Manage requirements involving participating government agencies and coordinate accurate declarations with responsible internal functions.
• Support customs rulings, requests for information, powers of attorney, liquidated-damages matters, and other government or broker correspondence with Legal and appropriate subject-matter experts.
• Monitor compliance with applicable regional export-control, sanctions, customs, and trade requirements and escalate potential violations under established protocols.

Special Programs and Supply Chain Security

• Lead regional administration of free trade agreements and other special trade programs, including qualification support, declarations, documentation, and customer requests.
• Oversee supply chain security activities and required filings for applicable programs, including CTPAT-related controls where relevant to the region.
• Support duty drawback, duty-leakage reduction, reconciliation, and other approved duty optimization or recovery initiatives.
• Maintain roadmaps, action plans, evidence, and readiness activities for applicable customs and supply chain security programs.

Broker, Systems and Operational Oversight

• Establish and monitor performance standards for customs brokers and other trade service providers; conduct reviews and coordinate corrective actions.
• Maintain accountable ownership or administration for assigned government and trade systems, such as ACE, CARM, or other jurisdiction-specific platforms.
• Conduct or coordinate internal audits of customs entries, classifications, valuation, origin, broker activity, and recordkeeping; track findings through closure.
• Coordinate compliant handling of cross-border customer returns, pro forma documentation, and other nonroutine shipment scenarios.
• Identify process, data, system, and training improvements that reduce compliance risk and improve operational efficiency.

Financial Management and Reporting

• Coordinate timely payment and reconciliation of duties, taxes, fees, and related customs obligations with Finance and Accounts Payable.
• Partner with Finance on import-related accruals, forecasts, landed-cost analysis, and budget tracking.
• Support landed-cost modeling and make-versus-buy analysis by providing trade, duty, and customs inputs.
• Prepare regional compliance metrics, risk summaries, audit results, duty trends, and action-plan updates for leadership.

Scope and Decision Authority

• Provides tactical leadership for a regional trade compliance team or department function and may operate as a high-level individual contributor where direct reports are not assigned.
• Manages resources and priorities to deliver quality work within established objectives, procedures, budgets, and deadlines.
• Makes day-to-day compliance and operational decisions using applicable regulations, company standards, precedent, and sound judgment.
• Recommends corrective actions, process changes, supplier actions, and resource needs; material legal, financial, policy, or no preapproved commitments are escalated for approval.
• Coordinates with Legal and designated compliance leaders on potential violations, disclosures, investigations, government responses, and other sensitive matters.

Physical Demands

• Primarily office-based work requiring regular use of a computer, phone, and standard office equipment.
• The role may require participation in site, warehouse, broker, or logistics reviews.
• Any role-specific physical requirements should be confirmed by HR and the hiring manager and assessed through the appropriate accommodation process.

Work Environment

• Works in a regional, cross-functional environment with interaction across Global Purchasing, sites, customs brokers, logistics providers, suppliers, internal functions, and government agencies.
• Work location, work model, schedule, regional travel, and time-zone expectations are to be confirmed.

Other Duties

• Additional duties, responsibilities, and activities may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in international trade, business, supply chain, logistics, finance, law, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Required Skills

• Five or more years of progressively responsible experience in customs