Description
Trade Compliance Officer
Based either Solihull or Coventry sites
Our client is a global provider of business process outsourcing and aftermarket services with 32,000 employees in 17 countries. Due to continued growth a new opportunity has been created for a Trade Compliance Officer to join Midlands operations based out of either Coventry or Solihull.
Reporting to the Operations Manager with a dotted line to the Global Trade Compliance Manager for Aftermarket Sales based in the UK, this new role will have responsibility for ensuring compliance with all relevant import and export regulations and will be the key contact for all specialist activity within the UK sites.
Success in this position requires international important and export experience coupled with strong communication and influencing skills and excellent attention to detail.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:
- Manage local export licence requirements
- Determine correct export licences for transactions
- Complete UK export licence applications on SPIRE
- Ensure compliance with all licence conditions
- Maintain export logs and records of all shipments
- Support the Global Trade Compliance Manager at local site level
- Communicate with global trade compliance officers across all sites
- Provide site with relevant work instructions relating to trade compliance activity
- Monitor changes in EU/UK import and export regulations
- Proactively identify areas of compliance risk at site level
- Provide periodic training relating to trade compliance requirements to relevant personnel
- Provide instructions to Brokers/Freight Forwarders
- Support import requirements and export declaration reconciliation
- Key contact person for third party brokers/freight forwarders
- Verify correct HTS classification is used by custom brokers
- V3erify correct import duty rate is applied
- Support trade compliance classification activity
- Ensure systems are updated with relevant classification and licence data
- Support shipping and logistics team in reviewing export documentation
- Review and assign relevant HTS/ECCN codes
- Other functions as defined by the Manager
Job Requirements
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in trade compliance
- Ability to communicate effectively across all functions and levels of the business
- Participation in senior management review meetings
- Strong knowledge of Customs/Export controls, UK Spire System & Shipping documentation requirements
- Experience of internal process audits