Job Summary
Manage compliance for goods movements domestic and international to and from the business locations of Avient Protective Materials in the United States of America. Providing leadership direction and guidance on all topics relating to import and export including Export Administration Regulations (EAR) International Trade in Arms regulations (ITAR) applicability of sanctions embargoes and other tools of foreign policy. Developing compliance functions and ensuring compliance by developing and maintaining policies training coaching and auditing.
Essential Functions
Authorities
- Set policies and procedures to meet customs and trade compliance and streamline associated processes;
- Authorized representative by power of attorney of other DSM Protective Materials entities and locations in the USA for matters relating to import and/or export of goods and technologies.
- Authorized to hold international export shipments in case of issues or concerns related to trade and/or customs compliance.
- Company representative for DSM Protective Materials LLC with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Directorate of
- Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) in relation to customs and global trade issues.
Special Assignments
- Optimize and maximize duty drawback on imported raw materials exported products and waste;
- Improve processes for auditing import and export transactions internally and by brokers and forwarders;
- In collaboration with locations abroad design develop and roll-out processes for shipping technical goods. #LI-AD1 #LI-Hybrid
Education and Experience
- BS/BA and 5 years of relevant experience or AA/AS and 6 years of relevant experience or HS Diploma with 10 years of relevant experience
- Relevant experience in the manufacturing industry. Leadership or supervisory experience is a plus.
- Training and experience in customs brokering preferred;
- Excellent knowledge of US customs regulations;
- Excellent knowledge of import duty regulations and processes;
- Excellent knowledge of Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Trade in Arms regulations (ITAR)
- Affinity or experience with high-performance materials.
- At least 10 years of experience in import and export compliance;
- Experience working in a multinational organization;
- Experience with conducting internal and external audits in customs and compliance;
- Experience working with forwarders and customs brokers
- Experience with ECCN classification;
- Experience with HTSUS and Schedule B classification;
- Experience with SNAP-R and ACE;
Excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills
Complexity of the Job
- This position requires a excellent understanding of US customs regulations and requirements but also of the dynamics and implications of rapid changing international trade politics.
- In addition to this Employee needs to have ability to understand technical properties of our raw materials products and technologies for the purpose of EAR/ITAR classification.
- Employee needs to be able to translate complex laws and regulations into policies that are relevant for our business and understandable to functions in different professional and hierarchical levels of the organization.
Employee will be required to travel to other sites to audit or provide compliance training and assistance.
Physical Demands
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time (up to 60% of the work day).
- Must be able to traverse to/from required meetings.
- Must be able to input data into a computer.
- Typically work is in an office environment where the noise level is low to moderate.
Specific vision abilities may require close vision color vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self a leader of others or a leader of the business. By playing to win acting customer centric driving innovation and profitable growth collaborating seamlessly across Avient and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avients strategic goals to meet our customer needs and to accomplish your career goals.
At Avient we believe a wide variety of thoughts ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing support of this we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring promotion development compensation or advancement are based solely on a persons qualifications abilities experience and performance. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race sex sexual orientation gender identity age color religion national origin disability genetic information protected veterans status or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing
Required Experience:
Manager
Job SummaryManage compliance for goods movements domestic and international to and from the business locations of Avient Protective Materials in the United States of America. Providing leadership direction and guidance on all topics relating to import and export including Export Administration Regul...
Job Summary
Manage compliance for goods movements domestic and international to and from the business locations of Avient Protective Materials in the United States of America. Providing leadership direction and guidance on all topics relating to import and export including Export Administration Regulations (EAR) International Trade in Arms regulations (ITAR) applicability of sanctions embargoes and other tools of foreign policy. Developing compliance functions and ensuring compliance by developing and maintaining policies training coaching and auditing.
Essential Functions
Authorities
- Set policies and procedures to meet customs and trade compliance and streamline associated processes;
- Authorized representative by power of attorney of other DSM Protective Materials entities and locations in the USA for matters relating to import and/or export of goods and technologies.
- Authorized to hold international export shipments in case of issues or concerns related to trade and/or customs compliance.
- Company representative for DSM Protective Materials LLC with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) Directorate of
- Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) in relation to customs and global trade issues.
Special Assignments
- Optimize and maximize duty drawback on imported raw materials exported products and waste;
- Improve processes for auditing import and export transactions internally and by brokers and forwarders;
- In collaboration with locations abroad design develop and roll-out processes for shipping technical goods. #LI-AD1 #LI-Hybrid
Education and Experience
- BS/BA and 5 years of relevant experience or AA/AS and 6 years of relevant experience or HS Diploma with 10 years of relevant experience
- Relevant experience in the manufacturing industry. Leadership or supervisory experience is a plus.
- Training and experience in customs brokering preferred;
- Excellent knowledge of US customs regulations;
- Excellent knowledge of import duty regulations and processes;
- Excellent knowledge of Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Trade in Arms regulations (ITAR)
- Affinity or experience with high-performance materials.
- At least 10 years of experience in import and export compliance;
- Experience working in a multinational organization;
- Experience with conducting internal and external audits in customs and compliance;
- Experience working with forwarders and customs brokers
- Experience with ECCN classification;
- Experience with HTSUS and Schedule B classification;
- Experience with SNAP-R and ACE;
Excellent problem solving/troubleshooting skills
Complexity of the Job
- This position requires a excellent understanding of US customs regulations and requirements but also of the dynamics and implications of rapid changing international trade politics.
- In addition to this Employee needs to have ability to understand technical properties of our raw materials products and technologies for the purpose of EAR/ITAR classification.
- Employee needs to be able to translate complex laws and regulations into policies that are relevant for our business and understandable to functions in different professional and hierarchical levels of the organization.
Employee will be required to travel to other sites to audit or provide compliance training and assistance.
Physical Demands
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position for long periods of time (up to 60% of the work day).
- Must be able to traverse to/from required meetings.
- Must be able to input data into a computer.
- Typically work is in an office environment where the noise level is low to moderate.
Specific vision abilities may require close vision color vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self a leader of others or a leader of the business. By playing to win acting customer centric driving innovation and profitable growth collaborating seamlessly across Avient and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avients strategic goals to meet our customer needs and to accomplish your career goals.
At Avient we believe a wide variety of thoughts ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing support of this we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring promotion development compensation or advancement are based solely on a persons qualifications abilities experience and performance. Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race sex sexual orientation gender identity age color religion national origin disability genetic information protected veterans status or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing
Required Experience:
Manager
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