Trade Compliance Manager

Job ID: CMO20100803-18507
Requirements:
Expertise Legal and Compliance
Education Bachelors
Job Type Full-time
Location United States - North Carolina - Asheville
Job Level Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With revenues of more than $10 billion, we have approximately 35,000 employees and serve over 350,000 customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in healthcare, scientific research, safety and education. Together, we offer the most convenient purchasing options to customers and continuously advance our technologies to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, enhance value for customers and fuel growth for shareholders and employees alike.

All of our employees share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement. Our ability to grow year after year is driven by our ability to attract, develop and retain world-class people who will thrive in our environment and share in our desire to improve mankind by enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

If you share in our values and if you're looking for an employer who is strongly committed to developing talent and rewarding achievement, come grow with us at Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Position Summary:

In conjunction with guidance from Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Corporate Global Trade Compliance office, provide strategic and tactical leadership to LED North America in the areas of Customs and Border Protection regulations, guidelines for Reasonable Care, and the Export Administration Regulations. The position is responsible for harmonizing import and export activities across LED North American locations. Directs efforts to enhance operational performance while providing world-class services
to customers.

• Work with LED leadership to design and establish a North America Import/Export team.
• Establish and maintain an import/export control infrastructure and processes for imports, export licensing/classification, deemed export compliance, export documentation, and export / import violation identification / disclosure, training, record keeping.
• Works with numerous levels of management to identify and resolve trade compliance issues as appropriate and to develop ongoing cross-functional solutions to address these issues.
• Exercise independent judgment in assessing procedural weaknesses and develop new scalable procedures and tools to maintain compliance, and assist in executing international business strategy.
• Assist in import/export license applications preparation; track status of all export authorization requests from initial internal request to Government approval
• Work with division and business units to proactively develop export license strategies.
• Develop processes to support yearly NAFTA qualification maintenance.
• Perform regulatory analysis to help determine proper jurisdiction and appropriate classification of hardware, software, and technology.
• Ensure all regulatory requirements related to export of controlled items, information, and/or services are maintained and documented.
• Negotiate export/import control issues with internal and external customers and resolve issues in a win/win manner with guidance from TFS Global Trade Compliance Office.
• Work with IT to implement automated compliance controls to improve transaction efficiency and provide cost saving.
• Work with export broker to ensure that export documentation (e.g. shipping export declarations, AES transmissions, etc…) are properly completed and maintained.
• Conduct trade and export regulatory compliance audits to determine whether policies, procedures, and applicable regulations and standards are appropriately implemented
• Develop and maintain LED North America trade compliance manual.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years of experience with import/export functions and possess a comprehensive knowledge of import regulations specifically as it relates to equipment manufacturing and distribution.
• Minimum 2 years supervisory/management experience.
• Able to interpret government regulations and have a general understanding of technical language.
• Able to travel at least 15% of the time.
• Customs Brokerage License is a plus.
• Lean Enterprise or related training is a plus.
• Demonstrated leadership and visionary skills.
• Demonstrated verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Computer proficiency.

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