Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Corporate GTC Team and local resources, including Senior Management, Commercial, Logistics, Finance, Sourcing, etc., to drive strategic direction of trade compliance processes to ensure robust compliance management that meets current requirements of all countries and regions with which business is being conducted.
• Participate in regular meetings/trainings with the Corporate GTC Team and funnel down any communications and/or training to the relevant personnel within the region and communicate any issues requiring attention to the Corporate GTC Team.
• Work with the Corporate GTC Team to implement companywide initiatives relating to GTC, e.g. the Global Trade Compliance Management System (GTCMS) and any automated GTC tools or systems implementations.
• Act as expert and keep abreast on local laws and regulations of the assigned region and provide leadership and training to all businesses with transactions to or from that region.
• Understand and address all US laws and regulations that pertain to the businesses operating in the region.
• Work within the region to identify and implement short term and long term strategic cost savings strategies, e.g. FTA, tariff engineering, etc.
• Raise the overall level of knowledge and professionalism of import and export resources and leadership across the region and leverage standard processes available from other Thermo Fisher programs.
• Develop and implement method to communicate trade compliance performance for sites and functions in region.
• Ability to develop and conduct regular global trade compliance trainings across businesses and functions is required.
• Support sites in internal assessments, desk audits, completion of post audit follow-up actions and evaluate common themes in audits and develop programs to proactively address issues across sites in region.
• Lead regional level standards and processes including customer screening, import and export classification processes, compliance documentation, and listing of controlled products.
• Drive continuous process improvements to improve customer delivery, quality, operational excellence and financial benefits associated with corporate standards and industry standards
• Mitigate risk to the organization through proactive process management ensuring that all activities are carried out in accordance with Thermo Fisher Scientific policies, standards, and applicable laws in the area of import and export compliance.
• Collaborate with freight forwarders, US customs officers, custom brokers, internal and external customers on all matters pertaining to customs and import and export regulations.

Education

• Bachelors Degree in Transportation / Logistics, Business, or International Trade, or an equivalent combination of university education and work experience

Experience

• 8-10 years experience in compliance management with demonstrated experience leading compliance activities in a multi-national company.
• Must be proficient in the local language and English.
• Must have experience with direct supervision of activities involving global import/export.
• Experience in logistics or possessing a Customs Brokers License a plus.
• Ability to travel up to 20%.
• Demonstrate Thermo Fisher Scientific values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement.
• Must possess solid judgment and ability to work autonomously from established goals and strategic direction - must be able to cope with multiple priorities and ambiguity.
• Possesses critical thinking and can look ahead and respond proactively - bias for action.
• Change leadership skills and the demonstrated ability to effect change on a global scale.
• Solid presentation, communications and influencing skills - demonstrated through both written and spoken communication & can work with other countries and cultures.
• A strong collaborative leadership style with proven track record to motivate change across multiple organizational levels, functions, locations, and "dotted lines" into entities to achieve objectives.
• Ability to work in a complex matrix environment to create consensus and implement processes.
• Strong problem solving skills and the desire to learn and use PPI to improve process.
• Excellent analytical and statistical skills including the ability to develop and measure metrics develop complex logistics and transportation models, etc.
• Budget management skills.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications.
• Demonstrated Role Model Leader Characteristics:
• Embody the 4-I values
• Delight customers
• Communicate openly and honestly
• Focus on growth

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain . As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.

Job Category

Legal & Compliance

Thermo Fisher Scientific

is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.