Sr. Manager, Global Trade & Compliance

Work Schedule

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Job Description

This position will drive trade compliance excellence across India Commercial / Functions/ COEs and /shared service as defined by adherence to applicable U.S. non-U.S. and local Customs and Export Control laws and regulations pertaining to international trade and exports as well as ensuring compliance with Thermo Fisher Scientific corporate divisional and local policies. This individual will develop and implement training and qualification programs in partnership with the Corporate GTC Team including attendance at the Corporate GTC Team workshops for all import/export personnel in scope.

This position will support all India and OSA ( Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh Srilanka Maldives) sites in scope in developing efficient effective and appropriate work procedures to support compliance and local global trade compliance management systems. The position will also provide advisory and support from legal standpoint working within the Legal Department for the country.

The Trade Compliance Manager must be able to successfully lead group projects with members andstake holdersfromavarietyoffunctionsandareas. Thereareawidevariety of activities involved in this position requiring excellent organizational skills and the ability to work and manage in a high energy fast paced environment. A high degree of flexibility with the ability to respond to changing priorities is important. The ability to work independently and communicate effectively is a requirement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Corporate GTC Team and local resources including Senior Management Commercial Manufacturing Operations Logistics Finance Legal Supply Chain etc. to drive strategic direction of trade compliance processes to ensure robust and proactive compliance management that meets current requirements of all countries and regions with which business is being conducted.
• Technical competence required to make and certify calculations related to Country of Origin Make in India Class Local content percentage etc. for manufacturing and Assembly Lines in India. Advise Commercial teams on complex regularoy environments and advising on legitimate routes of sourcing and imports.
• Customs competence required to identify and classify products under HSN categories and support deal with regulatory bodies on substantiating and establishing the HSN classifications.
• Participate in regular meetings/trainings with the Corporate GTC Team and funnel down any communications and/or training to the relevant personnel within the region and communicate any issues requiring escalation to the Corporate GTC Team.
• Work with the Corporate GTC Team to implement companywide initiatives relating to GTC e.g. the Global Trade Compliance Management System (GTCMS) and any automated GTC tools or systems implementations.
• Act as GTC expert and keep abreast on local laws and regulations develop a GTC Compliance program for all Business Divisions in India and develop SOPs guidelines and controls. Provide leadership and training to all businesses with transactions to or from India and South Asia.
• Understand and address all US and local Indian export control laws and regulations that pertain to the businesses operating in the country
• Work within the Country to identify and implement short term and long-term strategic cost savings strategies e.g. FTA tariff engineering etc.
• Raise the overall level of knowledge and professionalism ofimport and export resources and leadership across the country and leverage best practices available from other Thermo Fisher programs.
• Develop and implement method to communicate trade compliance performance for sites and functions in the country.
• Ability to develop and conduct regular global trade compliance trainings across businesses and functions is required.
• Support sites in internal assessments desk audits completion of post audit follow-up actions and evaluate common themes in audits and develop programs to proactively address issues across sites in the Country
• Manage regional level standards and processes including customer screening import and export classification processes compliance documentation and listing of controlled products.
• Drive continuous process improvements to maximize customer delivery quality operational excellence and financial benefits associated with corporate standards and industry best practices.
• Mitigate risk to the organization through proactive process management ensuring that all activities are carried out in accordance with Thermo Fisher Scientific policies standards and applicable laws in the area of import and export compliance.
• Support Head legal on legal documentation review agreements support business partners and work as an advisory on legal and compliance related matters from time to time

Minimum Experience and Skills Required

• Bachelors Law degree Law Business Management or International Trade or an equivalent combination of university education
• Work experience- 8-10 years experience in Trade compliance management with demonstrated experience managing compliance activities in a multi-national company Legal experience will be added advantage
• Must be proficient in the local language and English.
• Ability to travel up to 20%

Skills

• Demonstrate Thermo Fisher Scientific values Integrity Intensity Innovation and Involvement.
• Must possess solid judgment and ability to work autonomously from established goals and strategic direction must be able to cope with multiple priorities and ambiguity.
• Possesses strategic thinking and can look ahead and respond proactively - bias for action.
• Change leadership skills and the demonstrated ability to effect change on a global scale.
• Solid presentation communications and influencing skills demonstrated through both written and spokencommunication & can work with other countries and cultures.
• A strong collaborative leadership style with proven ability to drive change across multiple organizational levels functions locations and dotted lines into entities to achieve objectives.
• Ability to work in a complex matrix environment to create buy in and implement processes.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the desire to learn and use PPI to improve process.
• Excellent analytical and statistical skills including the ability to develop and measure metrics develop complex logistics and transportation models etc.
• Budget management skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications
• Demonstrated Role Model Leader Characteristics:
• Delight customers
• Communicate openly and honestly
• Focus on growth