Compliance Operations Lead, Third-Party Due Diligence

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations for Vantor’s third-party due diligence and screening program, including risk-based reviews of customers, suppliers, agents, resellers, consultants, channel partners, and other business intermediaries.
• Conduct sanctions, restricted-party, denied-party, adverse media, ownership, and reputational-risk screening, evaluate red flags, document findings, recommend mitigation, and escalate issues for cross-functional review.
• Analyze public records, screening results, questionnaires, contracts, ownership information, business justifications, and other documentation to assess anti-corruption, sanctions, export control, human rights, and reputational risk.
• Support onboarding, renewal, and ongoing monitoring of third parties, including risk reclassification, periodic reviews, and event-driven reviews based on changes in ownership, geography, sanctions status, or business activity.
• Compliment the company’s Third-Party Risk Management program by focusing specifically on sanctions, restricted-party, anti-corruption, export control, reputational, and regulatory compliance risks.
• Partner with Contracts, Security, Procurement, Sales, and business teams to gather information, resolve diligence questions, and support timely, well-documented business decisions.
• Prepare due diligence summaries, risk assessments, metrics, reports, and stakeholder briefings that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, mitigation steps, and open issues.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve due diligence workflows, templates, screening criteria, escalation protocols, playbooks, tools, and records to promote consistency, efficiency, and audit readiness.
• Support compliance review and clearing of business activity in SAP and related systems, including customer, reseller, supplier, order, travel, and visitor-access reviews where sanctions, export control, restricted-party, or high-risk country concerns may be present.
• Review inbound visitor, foreign-person access, and outbound travel requests in coordination with cross-functional stakeholders to identify and resolve potential sanctions, export control, facility-access, or country-risk concerns.
• Support Compliance program administration, including policy administration and management, internal website content, training materials and corporate training administration, job aids, dashboards, documentation repositories, and other employee-facing resources.
• Aid in internal audits, monitoring, testing, and remediation activities across Compliance programs, including third-party diligence, sanctions/restricted-party screening, anti-corruption controls, and related records.
• Identify, develop and maintain compliance operations dashboards, metrics, reporting, and business intelligence-style insights to track screening volume, cycle times, risk trends, escalations, open items, and program effectiveness through automation, system configuration, and use of AI-enabled tools where appropriate.

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Bachelor's degree in a related field
• 3+ years of experience supporting third-party due diligence, restricted-party screening, sanctions/export-control compliance, anti-corruption compliance, trade compliance, or related compliance operations, preferably in aerospace or other defense contractor industries.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate compliance risk, investigate and document red flags, prepare clear written risk assessments, and support escalation or mitigation recommendations for internal stakeholders.