Sr. Trade Manager, EMEA, Global Trade and Product Compliance

Amazon Security is looking for an experienced Senior Trade Manager to support our Europe and Africa business on a broad range of global import, export and product compliance matters. You may interact with Amazon subsidiaries, product development, Data Center Engineering, Product Compliance Engineering, Amazon Services, Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Legal, Tax, Regulatory Authorities and other internal businesses and external stakeholders to drive trade and product compliance.

Amazon is at the forefront of providing a broad set of global cloud-based services including compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, deep Machine learning, robotics, and enterprise applications, to help organizations move faster, lower IT costs, and scale. This is a dynamic business within Amazon, and one of the world’s fastest growing and evolving companies, with a team of exceptionally talented, bright and driven people.

The role sits within the Amazon Global Trade and Product Compliance (GTPC) team and is responsible for ensuring the infrastructure and other equipment necessary to support the Amazon services are imported/exported in a compliant manner across the multiple countries where Amazon operates and expects to expand. PRINCIPAL DUTIES:

- Develop, document, and maintain operational processes and procedures to support trade compliance and overall cross-border activity
- Build and own core trade compliance processes and analytical rhythms to align with subsidiary and key programs’ objectives.

- Monitor EMEA regional import/export regulatory or procedural changes that could impact planning for import or related requirements, and clearly communicate those guidelines to stakeholders during the export/import planning process.

- Establish and manage positive business relations with key stakeholders and business teams.

- Manage tasks and communication in relation to all regional regulations for Amazon trade and product compliance activities, including requirements gathering, executing import/export transactions, updating status reports, and coordinating team deliverables.

- Assist with technology, hardware, and software trade classification and related activities, including:
Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), import license reviews and applications to meet local partner government agency requirements
- Interface with internal and external functional partners to identify and rectify any information/process gaps.

- Build communications and training plans to achieve awareness in all internal and external partners so that they are aligned to trade and product compliance processes.

- Generate and contribute to performance requirements, timelines, and metrics for all related activities.

- Proactively identify and drive process improvement initiatives.

- The qualified candidate must have 10 or more years of trade compliance experience advising on Trade compliance topics or similar regulatory issues, covering Europe and Africa and ideally multiple additional countries in region. The successful candidate must be enthusiastic, and enjoys working hard, being challenged, and demonstrate sound judgment even in ambiguous situations. About the team Diverse Experiences Amazon Security values diverse experiences.

Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying.

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