International Trade Compliance Manager

The Manager of International Trade Compliance plays a vital role in providing governance, oversight, and execution direction to leadership and key partners involved in Regulatory Compliance for the Professional Tools (RIDGID & Greenlee brands) business.

This position will be working directly under the mentorship of the Global Director of Trade Compliance, focusing on ensuring all import and export activities across our North American locations are in strict adherence to U.S.

and non-U.S.

laws, regulations, and Emerson Corporate policies.

They will be encouraged to work effectively with other departments to help facilitate legal transactions for import/export as well as provide guidance in government regulations related to trade compliance.

This position can be located in Elyria, OH or Rockford, IL!

In this Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:


* Promote One Emerson core values while supporting the Company’s objectives. 


* Enable the ethical execution of legal business opportunities, proactively mitigating risk and reducing cost. 


* Collaborate and coordinate with Business’ International Trade Compliance Managers/Leaders ITC Officers/Executive Sponsors and Liaisons to develop, implement, and maintain effective, efficient, and consistent global trade compliance programs.


* Coordinate the adoption, development, and implementation of One Emerson Regulatory Compliance standards throughout North America. 


* Provide business support in areas of training, auditing, and overall program development. 


* Support in third-party due diligence reviews and approvals (Checkpoint). 


* Serve as a compliance liaison in Archer to support the timely and effective closure of open compliance improvement plans. 


* Conduct routine communication sessions with senior management on the status of site compliance programs throughout North America and work in collaboration with global and regional Regulatory Compliance staff in progressing requirements. 


* Proactively look for improvement opportunities in support of other departments, including but not limited to Procurement, Logistics, IT, R&D, shipping, finance, and engineering. 


* Administer site visits, training days and integrate new acquisitions as applicable. 


* Develops and manages all decision making for International Documentation System Precision Trax, including all data maintenance, working with IT and 3rd party consultant for system updates, as well as regulatory changes that require documentation modifications, etc.


* Provide oversight in procedure development/maintenance and training of relevant materials to users for Precision Trax Int’l Documentation System


* Manage Shared Services import auditing with findings resolution for RIDGID products.


* Manage annual country of origin campaign, identifying products to be included in campaign providing oversight to One Regulatory Compliance Shared Services analyst with the annual pr...