Lead, Trade & Customs

LEAD SCO TRADE & CUSTOMS COMPLIANCE GOVERNANCE

LOCATION WHQ BEAVERTON OR

The Nike Trade and Customs team within Supply Chain Operations is dedicated to fostering a culture of collaboration innovation and continuous improvement. We offer competitive compensation comprehensive benefits and opportunities for professional growth and development.

WHO YOULL WORK WITH

In this role youll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our trade compliance framework and offering critical compliance expertise to our global stakeholders. To effectively lead in this role you will work with across the global trade network and other key partners at Nike. While this role has no direct reports it requires a large amount of influence and partnership.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

AsLead Trade and Customs - Compliance Governanceyou will be responsible for supporting the evolution and ongoing implementation of Nikes SCO Trade Compliance Framework. This role will drive and enable trade compliance best practices across the organization through new compliance tools escalation processes stakeholder engagement practices and risk mitigation programs.

Leading cross-functional teams coordinating projects and ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and best practices will be some of your key responsibilities. As Lead you will serve as a key facilitator for various compliance initiatives while supporting a high-performing and self-organizing team.

Qualifying factors:

• You are open to working at Nike WHQ Beaverton Oregon.

• Bachelors degree in Business or related field. Will accept any suitable combination of education experience and training.
• Have 5 to 10 years of experience in trade customs compliance supply chain finance internal audit or a similar role in medium to large companies. Masters degree preferred.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-culturally to build strong relationships in person and virtually.
• U.S. Customs Brokers license (highly preferred).
• Track record of creating new ways of thinking developing and implementing processes process improvement and driving change.
• Experience in the customs and international trade industry policy and procedure development and systems/tool development.

WHAT YOULL WORK ON

Your proven experience in managing compliance programs within a global trade environment will be key assets to this role. In addition your expertise in guiding the team and partners through governance compliance processes in a diverse global environment will be important in this role.

• Compliance Project Leadership and Facilitation: As Lead you will facilitate project team meetings road-mapping sessions and gather feedback from stakeholders. In addition you will be responsible for providing high-level updates using existing trade best practices including tools such as Jira advanced roadmaps dashboards and 1-pagers.

• Trade Compliance Consulting and Engagement: You will consult and engage with Geos and Territories on targeted new or evolving compliance developments or issues. In addition you will assist with developing customs procedures to comply with import and export compliance regulations. In addition you will help interpret new regulations and customs requirements to create impactful presentations for stakeholders and partners.

• Continuous Improvement and Stakeholder Engagement: You will provide support to the team in benchmarking documentation and capturing key learnings from global trade initiatives. The ability to maintain effective communication across teams external stakeholders and management to gain respect and buy-in for governance compliance strategies will be key to this position. You can expect to working as a team to strengthen the trade compliance network/community through various governance and risk activities (training communications etc.).

• Transition Management and Stakeholder Adoption: Driving the change management process by managing communication training and support for the adoption of changes across our stakeholders is of prime importance for your role. Responsibilities you will manage and execute include socialization and adoption of the compliance framework procedures and internal controls by key stakeholders.

We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers sign language interpreters accessible and single location for in-person interviews closed captioning and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover as you navigate our application process that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form.