Global Trade Compliance and Logistics Director

Position Overview

The Global Trade Compliance and Logistics Leader is a new SubCom position that will work across the end-to-end supply and value chain to deliver precision, velocity, and quality results.

Responsibilities

• Develop SubCom trade compliance strategy aligned with the company’s objectives, expected growth, supply chain, and regulatory requirements

• Advises senior leadership and other key stakeholders on risks, emerging multi-local regulations and US trade compliance requirements

• Builds and develops a global trade and logistics team, ensuring effective, documented core processes and standards, and a continuous improvement environment

• Maintains strong partnerships across the enterprise with legal, supply chain, factory and fleet operations, project management, planning, finance, tax, and commercial teams

• Provides direction on tariff optimization strategies, free trade agreements (FTAs), de minimis rules, and duty savings opportunities

• Ensures compliance with country of origin, tariff classification, and customs valuation requirements

• Creates and maintains a database (one version of the truth) of SubCom HTS codes and audit trail for previous shipments

• Maintains SubCom company policies and their interaction with global policies on anti-boycott laws, trade sanctions and restricted party screening

• Leads on US Federal Contracting requirements from a trade compliance perspective

• Leads proactive assessments of US trade compliance risks and oversees corrective action plans

• Creates a global logistics capability and support ecosystem that includes factory logistics, project management logistics, fleet logistics, and multi-local staging and distribution operations

• Develops a sourcing strategy for global logistics service providers linked to SubCom operations, business plan, and global trade compliance requirements

• Maintains optionality and flexibility pursuant to production, installation and ship schedules

• Improves and maintains cost, performance, and quality of execution

• Develops and maintains a strong external US trade compliance network across industry associations, government agencies, and peer companies to stay abreast of regulatory developments and best practices

• Represents the company with external authorities in the US (e.g., CBP, BIS, OFAC, HMRC) and during trade audits or investigations

• Advise business leaders and supply chain teams on US geopolitical, regulatory, and tariff impacts to global sourcing and distribution strategy

• Reviews and ensures the implementation of US policies, controls, and procedures to ensure compliance across all import/export activities

• Oversight for the development and delivery of training programs for employees and management on trade compliance obligations

• Supports trade data analytics, reporting, and metrics to monitor program effectiveness

• Implements continuous improvement initiatives to streamline processes, reduce risk, and enhance global trade efficiency

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in International Trade, Law, Business, Supply Chain Management or a related field is preferred

• Minimum 15 years of experience in global trade compliance; experience of a leadership role within a multinational organization preferred

• Proven experience within the U.S. CBP environment and familiarity with CBP rulings, audits, and enforcement processes

• Strong understanding of US customs laws, country of origin rules, classification, valuation, and tariff regimes

• Expertise in US boycott regulations, export controls, and sanctions compliance

• Experience leading cross-functional teams and managing US tradecompliance programs

• Demonstrated leadership with global logistics sourcing, 3PL services, and working with multi-local service providers

• Advanced team building and leadership skills working across various work groups

• Experience and demonstrated leadership with global logistics sourcing, 3PL services, and working with multi-local service providers

• Existing external network within the US trade compliance community (industry groups, CBP, legal and consulting professionals)

• Advanced skills working across people, process, information, technology, partnership, and governance domains

• Experience and ability to navigate disparate systems to obtain, manipulate, format, and communicate data that tells a story

• Experience in manufacturing, telecommunications, high-tech preferred

• Eternally curious with the desire and ability to conduct market, industry, and subject matter research

• Capable of developing informed value propositions to support action, and the ability to articulate opportunity cost and risk to the business

• Methodical, process, and data-driven professional and decision-maker

• Servant-leader who sets expectations, determines the pace, and develops others for future leadership roles

• Commitment to operational excellence and a hands-on approach

• Demonstrated ability to engage effectively with senior executives and influence decision-making at all organizational levels

• Strong interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills

• Integrity-driven leader with a passion for compliance, ethics, and innovation

• Comfortable operating in a dynamic, matrixed and global business environment

• Experience working across culture, time zone, language, and legal barriers