Junior Customs and Export Controls Analyst

PURPOSE AND SCOPE:

As a Junior Customs and Export Controls Analyst, you will support Fresenius Medical Care’s global trade compliance efforts by providing practical guidance on customs and export control matters.

You will play a key role in optimizing supply chains, managing import and export processes, and ensuring adherence to international trade regulations.

Working closely with internal teams and external partners, you will help implement and maintain trade governance procedures, support classification and origin management, and contribute to the automation and simplification of customs operations.

This role offers a unique opportunity to develop specialized expertise in global trade compliance within a dynamic and international healthcare environment.

This position is a role focused on establishing, managing, and overseeing the company’s customs and trade compliance framework.

The incumbent is responsible for ensuring strategic adherence to all international trade laws and regulations, maintaining key governmental authorizations, and mitigating corporate risk, including oversight of side processes to import and export (namely tariff classification of goods, export controls, origin management and special customs processes requirements and procedures).

This is not a day-to-day operational role, but rather one of policy, oversight, and strategic management.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Advisory & Guidance:



* Providing practical advice and guidance on the full range of customs and export control matters, including export and import controls, tariff classification, trade taxation, free trade agreements, special customs regimes and related risk management issues;


* Support and advise about the potential optimization of supply chains and flows of goods to achieve cost optimization in accordance with global trade requirements (e.g.

Free Trade Agreements, Free Trade Zones, duty drawback, inward process relief, temporary imports), including implications for choice of suppliers, product design and content, manufacturing sites, logistical flows and sales processes for Fresenius Medical Care and affiliates;


* Supporting the integration and automation of trade governance processes into FME‘s global operations and processes in close collaboration with stakeholders and other Global Trade governance areas including Trade Taxation, Trade Optimization and Trade defense.


* Guidance, support, ongoing review and execution of controls related to:
+ Special Customs programs and trade benefits used by FME, including but not limited to Inward and Outward Process Reliefs, Temporary Admissions, IMMEX, Authorized Economic Operator, duty drawback programs;
+ Eligibility for duty exemptions programs and regulation as well as FTAs and select the most appropriate programs, by taking into account supply chains, business needs and regulatory limitations;
+ Proper implementation of identified trade benefi...