Director, Global Trade Compliance and Strategy

Overview

The Director, Head of Global Trade Compliance and Strategy is a key supply chain leader responsible for designing, implementing, and overseeing the company's global trade compliance program while shaping trade‑related strategy to support growth, resilience, and innovation. This role ensures full compliance with international trade regulations while enabling efficient, ethical, and scalable global operations across R&D, manufacturing, and commercial activities. This role will set the global trade policy and strategy direction, drive proactive regulatory engagement, and partner with senior and executive leadership across Supply Chain, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Tax, Regulatory, and Quality to align trade compliance strategies with business growth.

The Director will lead a team of Trade Compliance professionals who represent Alnylam withrelevantregulatory authorities,ensuring the company's operations meet all applicable import, export, customs, and sanctions regulations.

This position is hybrid primarily in Cambridge, MA.

• Ownand continuously enhance Alnylam's global trade compliance framework, including import/export policies, standards, and procedures aligned with U.S. CBP, OFAC, DEA, FDA, and relevant international agencies and programs(EU, UK,JP,etc).
• Maintain the governance model for global trade compliance, including oversight of risk assessment, monitoring, and executive-level reporting.
• Ensure robust internal controls for classification, valuation, licensing, and documentation are in place across R&D, clinical, and commercial supply chains.
• Engage with regulatory authorities toproactivelyinfluenceevolving policy and clarify expectations impacting
  
  Alnylam's operations and global trade strategy.

• Partner with senior leaders across
  
  Global Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Tax, and Finance to embed compliance strategy into network design, sourcing, and product launch plans.
• Collaborate with Legal, Policy, and Complianceteamstoinfluence Alnylam's positions on global tradeand regulatory policy.
• Monitor international regulatory and geopolitical developments;
  
  Advise senior leadership regularly,providing strategic insights,business impacts,risk assessments, and recommendations that shape enterprise-level decision‑making.
• Establish KPIs to measure compliance performance, identify emerging risk,and drive continuous improvement across theteam.
• Support due diligence, onboarding, and qualification requirements for Logistics Service Providers (LSPs) as it relates to Trade Compliance, including compliance certifications, internal controls, and screening capabilities.
• Establishprogramsto ensure
  
  LSPs adhere to company trade policies related to export controls, sanctions, restricted party screening, customs valuation, classification, and country-of-origin determination.

• Lead and develop a global team of trade compliance professionals and regional specialists.
• Build organizational capability through targeted training, knowledge sharing, and cross‑functional engagement.
• Communicate compliance priorities clearly across all levels of the organization, driving a culture of accountability.

• Partner with IT and Logistics to enableprocessdeploymentfor global trade compliance operations, including supporting systems(i.e.SAP).
• Lead global process harmonization, technology enablement, and benchmarking initiatives to enhance program efficiency and scalability.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field required;
  Master's or law degree is desirable.
• Minimum
  10years of experience in international trade compliance, including 5+ years leading global operations in a regulated industry (pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences preferred).
• Deepexpertisein U.S. import/export regulations (CBP, EAR, OFAC, FDA, DEA) and global trade frameworks (EU, UK, APAC).
• Proven success engaging with regulators and government agencies to shape or influence trade compliance policy outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to brief, influence, and align seniorleaderson complex regulatory…