Managing Counsel
Credible
Senior Director and Counsel, Global Customs and Trade Compliance
Acuity
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $160,100 - $288,100 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Provide strategic guidance and legal counsel on a wide range of global customs and trade compliance matters
- Lead and mature the Company's trade compliance program
- Partner with the internal Customs and Trade Operations team to ensure effective and compliant global customs and trade operations processes
- Lead and manage the global import, export, and supply chain security program to ensure compliance with all applicable trade laws and regulations, including US Customs laws, Export Administration Regulations (EAR), and other applicable global trade regulations
- Monitor and interpret changes in trade laws and regulations and provide legal counsel and strategic guidance on US and international customs laws, including tariff classification, valuation, country of origin, and preferential trade programs
- Lead and develop a team of customs and trade compliance professionals focused on ensuring compliance with applicable trade laws and regulations and successful operation of compliance processes, including screenings, mitigation, and audits
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders including supply chain, sourcing, and enginerring to ensure customs and trade compliance across business functions
- Manage responses to government inquiries, enforcement actions, and voluntary disclosures
- Lead internal audits and risk assessments related to import and export activities
- Develop and maintain trade compliance policies, procedures, and training programs
- Assist in due diligence of potential acquisitions and potential remediation/integration activities after acquisition
Requirements
- Proven ability to provide thoughtful and clear guidance to a variety of stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment while developing collaborative relationships at all levels and departments
- High level of interpersonal skills, communication skills, mature judgment, emotional intelligence, and independent thinking
- Demonstrated experience with U.S. trade controls (EAR, OFAC, Customs), as well as other global trade control regimes
- Solid knowledge and experience with import and export requirements under Mexico's IMMEX program, USMCA rules of origin and related preferential treatment requirements, and Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) program
- Experience with US BAA/BABA programs and analysis
- Direct experience handling matters with federal agencies that regulate customs/trade
- Experience in advising multinational businesses on trade compliance matters, including US export controls, imports/customs, sanctions and compliance program development
- 5+ years with responsibility for global trade compliance as in-house counsel or equivalent law firm or government agency experience (preferred)
- Juris Doctor (JD) from a US accredited law school and admitted to practice in at least on US state
- 9 to 12 years of experience
