Customs & Trade Compliance Manager

We are currently looking for a Customs & Trade Compliance Manager (English/French) to join our Supply Chain Department, based in Geneva, Switzerland.

Contract type
:
Permanent

Location :
Geneva, Switzerland

Start date
: ASAP

Reporting to the Group Logistics, Transport & Customs Director, the Customs & Trade Compliance Manager serves as the Group Customs Subject Matter Expert responsible for customs compliance, optimisation programs, and customs transformation initiatives.

• Ensure excellence on 3 Customs pilars: tariff classification, customs valuation and origin determination.
• Ensure customs compliance across all international flows on 3 customs pilars.
• Supervise customs brokers under scope of responsability and customs declarations.
• Lead preferential origin and Free Trade Agreement programs.
• For US, Manage First Sale, TVIS and RECON programs.
• Support all Business regions with any requirement related to any distribution flow, under construction or to review.
• Optimise bonded warehouse and special customs regimes.
• Ensure compliance with CITES and other specific regulations.

• Lead customs digitalisation and transformation initiatives.
• Support ERP, PLM, WMS and TMS projects.
• Automate preferential origin and FTA processes.
• Strengthen governance and controls for First Sale, TVIS and RECON.
• Design and deploy the Group CITES operating model.
• Develop customs performance and compliance dashboards.
• Develop and deploy a global SOP review to ensure perfect and smooth level of WW operations
• Implement Audit document strategy and document portail development to certify compliance of overall distribution flows

• Act as the Group Customs Subject Matter Expert.
• Advise Tax, Finance, Supply Chain, Legal and Operations teams.
• Build and formalise Group customs strategy to management.
• Build and maintain a multi-year customs roadmap.
• Conduct customs impact assessments for new products, markets and flows. Frame Business development to ensure smooth launch strategy, raise risks or challenges.

• Master degree in Customs, International Trade, Supply Chain or related field.
• Experience leading transformation projects, customs digitalization initiatives will be a plus
• Minimum 5 years of customs operations experience
• Strong expertise in tariffs, origin, customs valuation. Experience in FTAs, First Sale, TVIS, RECON, CITES and Trade Compliance would be preferable.
• Advanced Excel and Power BI skills.
• Fluent English and French;
  Italian is a plus.

Christian Louboutin, created in 1991 in Paris, is a global luxury brand leader when it comes to shoes for women and men and leather goods. Christian Louboutin is also renowned for its iconic red sole, imagined by Mr. Christian Louboutin himself, a year after the creation of the brand. The brand has more than 160 Boutiques in 38 countries featuring the signature shoes such as the iconic pumps, sneakers and loafers alongside the seasonal collections for women, men and accessories.

Christian Louboutin imagines collections through a large spectrum of inspirations emanating from his love of Paris, his travels, and his passion for art and craftmanship. 2014 welcomed the launch of Christian Louboutin Beauté with the iconic Rouge Louboutin nail and lip colour.

Our people are at the heart of our brand

We celebrate individuality and allow the freedom to have responsibility, autonomy and creativity within your role. Our colleagues have in common the passion and dedication to our Brand, and its continued success.

We are down to earth – we stand with authenticity, integrity and respect. We have passion – we drive our business with agility, commitment and care. We have happiness in all that we do – we collaborate with positivity, open-mindedness and fun. We work with inspiration – we envision the future with confidence, creativity and freedom.”

The Maison Christian Louboutin is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to recruitment practices that do not discriminate against any job applicant because of their race, color, gender, age, nationality, culture(s), religion, sex, physical or mental disability, or age. We believe that a culture of diversity and individuality fosters our core values we listed above. So, if you also share this mindset and these values and you dream of coloring your soles red as part of the Louboutin adventure, please join us!