Director, Trade Compliance
🇺🇸 United States
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Director, Trade Compliance
from 🇺🇸 United States
How you will achieve success:
- Develop strong cross-functional relationships by conducting 1:1s with Legal, Supply Chain, Finance, IT, and external partners to align on compliance priorities and business needs.
- Quickly assess and document the current state of trade compliance by reviewing core materials, classification accuracy, and import/export activity, identifying key gaps and opportunities.
- Drive immediate impact through early wins, including correcting recordkeeping errors, improving broker SOPs, and resolving classification discrepancies that drive cost.
- Establish performance baselines by launching a draft KPI dashboard to measure classification accuracy, entry timeliness, and screening compliance.
- Shape the long-term compliance strategy by building a phased roadmap, designing targeted training, and presenting a savings-aligned compliance plan to leadership.
What experiences will help you in this role:
- Extensive trade compliance background, including classification, valuation, licensing, and audit processes, ideally in a high-volume import/export environment.
- Proven success leading cross-functional compliance projects involving brokers, logistics providers, and internal stakeholders across legal, finance, and supply chain.
- Strong analytical and systems expertise, including experience with ACE, AES, ECCN/HTS tools, and denied party screening software.
- History of delivering cost savings through duty optimization strategies such as FTA use, duty drawback, First Sale for Export, and process improvements.
- Executive communication skills with a track record of presenting risk assessments, dashboards, and strategic roadmaps to senior leadership.


