EMEA Trade Operations Senior Specialist

Overview

Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? Join Cytiva, a Danaher company, and contribute to life-saving solutions across fundamental biological research to vaccines and therapies. Our culture emphasizes belonging and continuous improvement, helping turn ideas into impact and advancing human health.

• Ensure trade compliance rules and regulations are met.
• Manage trade compliance risks and issues to ensure duty management and compliance are appropriately controlled and prioritized.
• Support the maintenance of trade metrics, internal self-audits and processes to ensure adherence to customs and import/export requirements.
• Collaborate with business partner functions, support cross-functional requests, and participate in internal projects with trade-related aspects.
• Pursue opportunities for continuous improvement of processes to reduce cost and improve efficiency.
• Liaise with customs brokers and address requests in a timely manner.
• Coordinate import/export processes in close cooperation with logistics.
• Perform internal audits of third-party agents' processes that impact compliance activities.
• Monitor broker performance and maintain required documentation and records.

• Bachelor's degree in international trade, logistics, supply chain or related discipline.
• Minimum 3 years of global experience in international trade compliance.
• Solid understanding of customs duty and trade compliance concepts (valuation, incoterms, licenses and permits, country of origin, HTS classifications, duty optimization/Free Trade Agreements, etc.).
• Depth of knowledge of trade compliance issues faced by a multinational manufacturing/distribution business with a complex supply chain.
• Proficient in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
• Willing to travel internationally up to 15% of time.

• Experience in logistics operations would be advantageous.

Note:

This role reports to the Senior Manager, EMEA Trade Operations and is part of the Global Trade Operations Team within Cytiva's Global Supply Chain. This is an on-site role.