Main responsibilities:

• Pre-shipment research of trade and regulatory requirements for international shipments, work with 3rd party vendors.
• Check shipping documentation, country research. Conducts audits on shipping documents and documentation provided by external partners to ensure compliance on all FCPA and Anti Bribery requirements, communicates with brokers and other external parties.
• Work closely with cross-functional team members including Legal and Tax to ensure imports/exports take place in a compliant manner.
• Assist global team members to ensure timely clearance instructions are provided to customs brokers and problem shipments are addressed.
• Review and ensure that all commercial documents in connection with the STOs are in place and compliant with shipping practices.
• Review and approve commercial invoices
• Approve all Trade documents, CI (Commercial Invoices), PL (Packing Lists) and AWB(Airway Bills) in 24 business hours
• Manage Order Form entry via internal systems.
• Support all Tax and Customs audits in alignment with Legal Regional Team
• Work with Client Trade Compliance team and Third-Party Logistics Service Providers (aka 3PLs) to make sure that all international shipments comply with export & import regulations
• Complete Due Diligence on all external parties in alignment with Legal requirements
• Monitor and manage all PII and Denied Party Screening requests
• Maintain brokerage performance reports
• Coordinate and resolve or escalate where required, inbound international shipments held at customs
• Carry out emerging markets research to determine shipping and compliance regulations in new locations.
• Serves as the primary point of contact for the client and extended logistics team, providing expert advice on customs clearance, brokerage, classification, valuation, and regulatory requirements
• Help to summarize regional compliance performance metrics.
• Help to create client-facing reports (Monthly Business Reviews/Quarterly Business Reviews - MBR/QBR).
• Help to creates and tracks action items and deliverables arising from performance reviews or client requests
• Owns and manages communication with client program managers.
• Ensures client-specific processes are clearly communicated and consistently followed by the internal team.
• Conducts weekly meetings with client managers.
• Provides timely updates and clarifications on shipments as needed.
• Keeps the customer proactively informed about every stage of the delivery process

Skills and Qualifications of the ideal candidate:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in logistics industry, trade compliance rules, regulations, inventory or warehouse management
• Familiar with spreadsheets, stock management and forecasting
• Comfortable with a rapidly-changing environment
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to operate and communicate effectively with people at all levels of the business.
• Proficiency in English at a minimum C1/C2 level, both written and spoken.
• Experience with SAP ERP tool.
• Comfortable with a rapidly-changing environment.
• Knowledge of trade compliance rules, regulations
• Bachelor’s degree.