Senior Manager Global Trade Compliance

With more than $1B in revenue, Tennant Company is a globally recognized leader in the cleaning equipment industry. For the past 150 years, we have been passionate about developing and manufacturing innovative and sustainable solutions for our customers. At Tennant Company, we are committed to stewardship and creating a cleaner, safer and healthier world. With manufacturing, operations and sales, service, and support functions across the globe, your journey at Tennant can take you places you never expected.

The Global Trade Compliance Senior Manager operates within a center led Global Supply Chain framework and will be responsible for all trade compliance matters and manage all trade compliance teams globally for Tennant Company, reporting directly to the Director of Global Supply Chain COE & Strategy. The position leads a team of 7 global trade compliance analysts and is on-site located at our Global Headquarters in Eden Prairie, MN with a hybrid work model.

This role will lead our global SAP GTS implementation stabilization and then transition to lead Tennant’s global trade compliance strategy, ensuring compliant, efficient, and cost-effective import and export operations worldwide. The role will oversee the development, implementation, and enforcement of trade compliance policies, processes, procedures and trade services systems; supervise and coordinate the activities of the trade compliance team to accomplish all assigned responsibilities;

and coordinate with the Sales, Customer Service, Operations, Supply Chain and Transportation functions to ensure the development and execution of compliant business decisions and solutions. This includes but is not limited to advising on the interpretation of trade laws/regulations for export approvals, training content, and requirements for the appropriate action and required documentation for the physical export and/or import of all commodities.

• Serve as the acting value stream leader for SAP S/4
  
  HANA & GTS regional deployments, overseeing requirement gap closure, end‑to‑end system alignment, and cross‑functional readiness.
• Stabilize SAP GTS in North America and prepare EMEA for go‑live, applying lessons learned, guiding process adoption, and defining KPIs to validate system and business performance.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying enhancements across GTS and S/4
  
  HANA, supporting change initiatives, and ensuring alignment with business transformation leaders.
• Own the global SAP GTS product roadmap and represent the GTS workstream in leadership and steering committee meetings to ensure scalable, future‑ready capabilities.
• Lead and fully manage Tennant’s global trade compliance and import/export operations, including a team of seven analysts and a long‑tenured SME (25+ yrs).
• Develop and execute Tennant’s end‑to‑end global trade compliance strategy, including Free Trade Agreements, duty exemptions, duty drawback, tariff engineering, valuation processes, first sale, returned goods, and free trade zones.
• Ensure full compliance with EAR, OFAC, ITAR, and global customs regulations, serving as Tennant’s primary global point of contact for trade scenario assessment and regulatory interpretation.
• Monitor global trade actions, regulatory changes, and tariff impacts, analyze performance data, and drive corrective actions to maintain compliance and cost efficiency.

• Standardize and harmonize trade compliance processes, policies, and controls across NA, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring consistency, scalability, and operational readiness.
• Maintain and continuously improve global SOPs, governance frameworks, and IOR/EOR partnerships to support compliant and efficient cross‑border operations.
• Embed trade compliance requirements into key business initiatives across Supply Chain, Customer Service, Manufacturing, Transportation, and Finance.
• Establish proactive audit and monitoring programs, supporting compliance visits and ensuring timely investigation, documentation, and resolution of import/export issues.

• Oversee global trade data accuracy, including HTS/ECCN classification,…