US Customs & Trade Compliance Manager

Schneider Electric is recruiting for a US Customs and Trade Compliance Manager in: Nashville, TN or Boston, MA.

This job position is within the Tax & Customs department, part of the Global Finance / Tax & Customs organization.

The person reports to the Regional Americas Customs & Trade Compliance Director.

The primary goal is to implement the Schneider Customs and Trade Compliance global strategy in the region effectively by fostering strong connections with various stakeholders and representing the Tax and Customs department's interests internally while advocating for the Group's interests externally.

What will you do?


* The Customs and Trade Compliance Manager will provide expertise and oversight of a broad range of import, export, trade remedies, origin determination, customs valuation, anti-dumping and countervailing duty and other trade compliance activities.



* Monitor and keep current on the rapidly changing trade environment, trade-related regulatory and legislative changes, customs rulings, and court decisions; communicate impact to the business and take appropriate actions to protect and deliver benefit to the business.



* This role focuses on mitigating risk, monitoring regulatory changes, and developing and enhancing the company's trade compliance framework.

Develop and implement trade compliance risk mitigation programs and strategy.



* Perform and manage import/export audit program, implement scorecard to measure customs and trade compliance, execute after action review to determine root cause and implement corrective actions.



* Manage and communicate with U.S Customs & Border Protection and other governmental departments to resolve import and export issues.

Create response to CF28, CF29, and other requests.



* This position requires a manager with strong knowledge of customs valuation, origin determination, AD/CVD investigations, has robust analytical skills to scrutinize case scope to determine applicability.



* This role will be responsible for the development, execution, and maintenance of the U.S compliance program.



* Your focus will be to ensure that Schneider Electric business units are compliant with all applicable customs and trade regulations, enforce compliance, create, and deploy policies and procedures, deliver training, develop, and drive process improvements and to optimize duty reduction with all available duty mitigation programs.



* Analyze import data to identify trends, minimize risks and identify opportunities.



* Drive cost savings and efficiencies through continuous improvement and effective management of trade compliance program, efficient internal processes, free trade utilization, return goods provisions, section 301, etc.



* Work with centralized classification and free trade function to identify and evaluate opportunities to facilitate duty reduction while administering compliance.



* Provide subject matter expert advice and guidance regar...