Specialist, Customs Compliance

About the role

CHANEL is looking for a customs compliance specialist to join our Customs & Regulatory Compliance team in Piscataway, NJ.

You will play a leading role in facilitating the customs regulatory compliance needs across fashion, watches, fine jewelry, fragrance, and beauty divisions to ensure on time entry into the US market.

This role interfaces with US legal, US F&B regulatory, Global fashion regulatory, and Global supply chain teams across fashion, watches & fine jewelry, fragrance & beauty and is a key partner for US merchandising, fashion account management, press and celebrity relations, and finance.

Responsibilities

• Perform USHTS classification for fashion, WFJ, F&B, and non-sellable materials
• Review product compositions for compliance flags (i.e. FWS, APHIS, FDA)
• Review of imports for compliance with TSCA and Lacey Act compliance
• Manage import data requirements and cross functional coordination with relevant teams
• Keep up with changing import tariff regulations (i.e. 232, 301) and communicate the changes to the business
• Knowledge of Trade Remedy issues, such as ADD/CVD
• Answer CF28/29 requests from CBP as required with support from legal counsel
• Support the cross-border coordination of Press and VIP movements
• Communicate import requirements to global and US teams to ensure wheels-up entry on time for all imports
• Investigate and answer broker questions across all inbound shipments
• Generate pro forma’s as needed for export
• Review pre-alerts to ensure all required data is available before import, and escalate missing data as needed to Global teams
• Attend weekly customs broker meeting to address import issues
• Manage priority imports based on business-critical needs
• Ensure import KPI’s are met, highlighting impacts to the business and solutions when issues arise

Qualifications

• A degree in business administration, supply chain management, finance, compliance
• A licensed customs broker
• Experience importing and exporting consumer goods, strong preference for fashion and beauty products

Skills

• Eye for detail and issue identification
• Connecting the dots between teams

Benefits

Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing and a Wellbeing fund
Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
401K and other incentives
Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program
Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking

Pay

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $61,400- 95,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks.

Schedule

Position Logistics: Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence in Piscataway, NJ. 3 years minimum experience in customs compliance (minimum- this is also valuable in the intro paragraph.)