Senior Manager, Global Trade Compliance and Trade Strategy

Senior Manager, Global Trade Compliance and Trade Strategy

As the Senior Manager, Global Trade Compliance and Trade Strategy, you will lead the global trade compliance function, ensuring adherence to all applicable import/export laws and regulations across various regions. You will play a key role in aligning our compliance strategies with Redwood’s growth initiatives. This position requires a strategic leader who can build and maintain strong relationships with external service providers, government officials, and internal teams to ensure seamless compliance processes.

Responsibilities Will Include:

• Leads a team of trade professionals, mitigating risks related to customs compliance, ensuring accurate tariff classification and documentation
• Collaboration across multiple departments, including supply chain, legal, finance, audit, and compliance, to support global business goals and maintain operational excellence in trade compliance and logistics
• Manages import duty programs and driving continuous improvements in import operations
• Collaborate with internal teams, external stakeholders, and government authorities to address regulatory requirements pertaining to clearance processes
• Manage relationships with customs authorities and brokers, and ensure adherence to corporate policies and global trade laws
• Evaluate potential operational or compliance risks and develop strategies for resolution
• Understand customs classification rules (GRI) and able to interpret customs/CIT rulings for both imports and exports
• Understand various partner government agency's import requirements and able to provide assistance to cross-functional teams
• Responsible for data management, development, and analysis of performance metrics, identifying problems and develop recommendations for trade teams and international logistics
• Utilizes quantitative skills to create and analyze data and reports to support business execution
• Supports the business through ad-hoc queries and maintains reports from a variety of resources as specific to department or organizational needs
• Develop business tools and solutions based on knowledge, product or technology. Identifies process improvement opportunities through strategic thinking, critical thinking and analysis
• Performs data management through data mining/data modeling/data analysis/cost/benefit analysis/process mapping or problem analysis while executing day to day processes related to area of responsibility.
• Supports business through ad-hoc queries & maintains reports
• Manages vendor/business partner relationships

Desired Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
• Licensed Customs Broker required 
• Minimum 7 years in Customs Compliance related experience
• Experience implementing, managing, and collaborating on trade compliance programs
• Known for communicating effectively with compliance management and business leaders and teams, including excellent written and oral communication skills
• Identifying compliance gaps and recommending process improvements for global supply chain
• Ability to work cross functionally with multiple departments simultaneously
• Ability to influence internal and external partners without direct authority utilizing excellent collaboration skills
• Known for communicating effectively with compliance management and business leaders and teams, including excellent written and oral communication skills
• Identifying compliance gaps and recommending process improvements for global supply chain
• Proficient in: Microsoft Office Suite including Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word and Visio
• A passion for sustainability and making the world a better place!