Director, Global Trade Compliance and Strategy

Director, Global Trade Compliance and Strategy

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 with relevant regulatory authorities, ensuring the company's operations meet all applicable import, export, customs, and sanctions regulations.

Key Responsibilities

• Global Trade Compliance Program Leadership
• Strategic Governance, Oversight, and Monitoring
• People Leadership
• Systems, Tools, and Continuous Improvement

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with extensive related experience required;
  Master's or law degree is desirable.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in international trade compliance, including 5+ years leading global operations in a regulated industry (pharmaceutical, biotech, or life sciences preferred).
• Deep expertise in U.S. import/export regulations (CBP, EAR, OFAC, FDA, DEA) and global trade frameworks (EU, UK, APAC).
• Experience in customs valuation planning, especially in supply and value chains involving IP, intercompany transactions, and other complex commercial arrangements like license and royalty agreements.
• Proven success engaging with regulators and government agencies to shape or influence trade compliance policy outcomes.
• Licensed Customs Broker (LCB) certification is desirable.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with executive presence and comfort presenting to executive level leaders.

U.S. Pay Range $ - $

About Alnylam

We are the leader in RNAi therapeutics – a revolutionary approach with the potential to transform the lives of people with rare and common diseases. Built on Nobel Prize-winning science, Alnylam has delivered the breakthroughs that made RNAi therapeutics possible and are just at the beginning of what's possible. Our deep pipeline, late-stage programs, and bold vision reflect our core values: fierce innovation, passion for excellence, purposeful urgency, open culture and commitment to people.

We're proud to be a globally recognized top employer, where an authentic, inclusive culture and breakthrough thinking fuel one another. At Alnylam, we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal employment opportunity. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their sex, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, pregnancy status or related conditions, genetic information, veteran or military status, marital or familial status, political affiliation, age, or any other factor protected by federal, state, or local law.

Alnylam is an E-Verify Employer.