Director, Trade Compliance – International

Job Description: • Lead our client’s trade compliance function across critical markets—unlocking market access, strengthening customer trust, and driving cost leadership to accelerate utility-scale solar growth. • Set the vision and operating model for an import-centric program in the United States, Canada, and Australia, with oversight across APAC and Oceania. • Own importer-of-record programs and oversee day-to-day customs execution (entries, ISF, reconciliation, records), engaging directly with customs authorities to ensure timely, accurate clearances. • Drive compliant savings through tariff engineering, preferential trade (e.g., USMCA/FTAs), Chapter 98, drawback, First Sale for Export, and Section 232 (steel) compliance; prepare recommendation memos and secure cross-functional adoption. • Monitor and interpret trade laws, sanctions, and trade-remedy actions; brief executives on impacts and options; coordinate company responses to regulatory inquiries and assessments in partnership with Legal. • Select, contract, and performance-manage customs brokers; direct outside counsel and consultants for rulings, interpretations, and specialized matters. • Deploy dashboards and controls that surface anomalies, support landed-cost decisions and provide executive-level reporting. • Lead the roadmap to achieve and sustain CTPAT Importer certification, coordinating physical, procedural, and IT-security criteria with internal teams and business partners. • Maintain a proportionate export-control framework (ECCN determinations, screening, licensing where required, and records) to support occasional exports. Requirements: • Education: Bachelor’s in International Trade, Supply Chain, Business or related field • Experience: 10+ years progressive trade-compliance experience with substantial, hands-on U.S. customs ownership and leadership of cross-regional programs. • Credentials: U.S. Licensed Customs Broker strongly preferred; CCS/CES or similar certifications a plus. • Regulatory Expertise: Deep knowledge of 19 CFR, HTSUS, ACE, USMCA, AD/CVD, Section 232, First Sale for Export, and U.S. export-control/sanctions frameworks. • Systems & Analytics: Proficiency with ERP (especially Oracle), GTM solutions and ACE/CARM portals; strong data-analysis skills and comfort with dashboards. • Leadership & Influence: Proven ability to advise executives, set enterprise standards and lead change across functions and regions. • Supply-Chain Insight: Solid understanding of end-to-end logistics and Incoterms to partner effectively with operations. • Travel: Up to 15 percent (domestic and occasional international) Benefits: Apply tot his job Apply To this Job