Global Trade Compliance Manager EMEA

Global Trade Compliance Manager EMEA

Level: 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.
• Embed trade requirements in new supplier, product, market and system launches; implement global automation standards and verify data quality and control effectiveness locally.

Decision Authority

• Hold regional shipments, declarations, transactions or technology transfers when applicable requirements are not met.
• Issue regional procedures and routine broker instructions consistent with approved global policy.
• Approve routine corrections and local filings within delegated authority and escalate material issues.
• Require site and business functions to correct inaccurate data or provide supporting records.
• Recommend broker changes, resource adjustments, disclosures, rulings and control improvements.
• May not override global policy, Legal guidance or license conditions 
• Require regional evidence and remediation; coordinate authorized submissions and escalate threatened suspension or loss of program status.

Key Relationships

• Director Global Trade: technical standards, escalation, regulatory change, special programs, export controls and sanctions.
• Site leaders and Operations: local execution, inventory, manufacturing, staffing and corrective action.
• Logistics and brokers: shipment readiness, declarations, evidence, performance and disruption response.
• Finance and Tax: values, duties, tax impact, accruals, refunds and reconciliation.
• Engineering and master-data teams: product data, classification and change control.
• Sales and Procurement: customer, supplier, origin, end-use and documentation requirements.
• Legal and local counsel: interpretation, government engagement, investigations and disclosures.
• Corporate Security, Procurement and site control owners: security assessments, partner diligence, validation evidence, incident escalation and corrective action.

Core Competencies

• Regional regulatory judgment; operational leadership
• Stakeholder influence; broker governance
• Audit and remediation; change implementation
• Cross-cultural communication; business continuity
• Trade optimization and supply chain security program capability appropriate to assigned responsibilities

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in international trade, customs, supply chain, finance, business or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 7 or more years of trade compliance experience, including responsibility for a country, region or multi-site operation.
• Strong knowledge of the import and export requirements applicable to the assigned region.
• Experience managing brokers, audits, corrections, regulatory change, training and cross-functional remediation.
• Experience with ERP, global trade management, customs portals and data analytics.
• Relevant local customs, export or professional credential preferred.
• Regional language capability and travel availability appropriate to the assignment.
• Experience maintaining relevant regional trusted-trader authorizations and leading cross-functional security assessments; ability to implement optimization projects with measurable results.