Global Trade Compliance Manager EMEA

Global Trade Compliance Manager EMEALevel: Manager (People Leadership / Includes 3PL)

Summary: Leads Trade Compliance for an assigned region. Implements enterprise requirements, owns regional procedures and regulatory-change execution, oversees brokers and site compliance activity, resolves escalations and reports performance and risk to global leadership. The role is scalable by region and may carry direct operational responsibility where local staffing is limited. This role includes trade optimization and CTPAT or AEO supply chain security responsibilities at the level defined below.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement global policies through regional procedures, responsibility matrices, work instructions, training and system requirements.

• Maintain a current register of applicable customs, import, export-control, sanctions, licensing, recordkeeping and product-related trade requirements.

• Oversee regional classification, valuation, origin, preference, broker, entry or declaration review and post-entry correction processes.

• For Europe and the United Kingdom, coordinate applicable Union Customs Code or UK Customs processes, customs warehousing, inward or outward processing, preference, AEO and related import or export controls.

• Assess new products, suppliers, customers, routes, entities and countries before launch and route complex import or export issues to the Director of Global Trade.

• Manage regional customs brokers, forwarders and consultants against approved instructions, service levels, error targets and corrective actions.

• Conduct or direct transaction testing, self-assessments, risk reviews and site audits; document root causes and remediation.

• Coordinate government inquiries, audits, permits, authorizations, disclosures and post-entry actions with global leaders and Legal.

• Maintain regional dashboards for duties, savings, errors, holds, licenses, overdue actions, records and regulatory implementation.

• Ensure trained backup coverage, business continuity and timely escalation for critical regional processes.

• Deliver regional optimization projects with the global program manager and Finance. Identify unused FTA benefits, recovery opportunities and eligible special procedures; validate local feasibility and measure realized benefits after implementation.

• Serve as the accountable regional coordinator for assigned CTPAT, AEO and comparable authorizations. Maintain entity scope, contacts, submissions, assessment schedules and evidence of continued eligibility.

• Lead regional supplier and site security assessments, authority validations, incident escalation and corrective-action closure with Corporate Security, Logistics, Procurement, IT and HR. Confirm operating controls are performed and evidenced by the responsible function.