Senior Manager, Trade Compliance; Export Controls & Sanctions) Team

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Deloitte's Global Export Controls and Sanctions practice has a worldwide network of over 500 international trade professionals in over 95 countries. The team works seamlessly together to provide strategic and operational trade compliance solutions and advice to clients across the globe.

Our market leading Trade Compliance team is led out of the UK and is the largest and most experienced amongst the Big 4 Professional Services Firms, with a global reputation for its quality and expertise.

Our team includes lawyers, accountants/auditors, former government officials, and industry specialists. This diverse team supports our operations-driven approach and enhances the more traditional, pure legal/regulatory advice, often given by some of our competitors. The team is dynamic, international and entrepreneurial.

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way
, serve with integrity
, take care of each other ,
foster inclusion
, and collaborate for measurable impact
. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join Deloitte UK's market-leading Trade Compliance team (in London, Birmingham, Bristol or Manchester) with agile and remote working supported. As part of the largest Big 4 Trade Compliance practice in Europe, you will lead complex export controls, sanctions, governance and assurance engagements across diverse industries, build trusted client relationships and help organisations strengthen their risk and compliance capabilities through advisory, process, capability and technology improvements.

Acting as a trusted adviser, you will combine deep trade compliance expertise with commercial acumen to deliver exceptional client value, support strategic growth and help shape the future of clients' trade compliance programmes. Your responsibilities will include:

• Advisory and Solution Development:
  • Anticipate complex client challenges and deliver innovative, enterprise-level solutions through strategic advice, process optimisation, capability development and technology.
  • Drive significant business growth by translating market trends into thought leadership, new trade compliance services and compelling commercial propositions.
  • Lead complex export classification, licensing, sanctions and controls analysis, including risk assessments, audits and benchmarking against leading practice.
  • Design and implement tailored controls, procedures and digital tools that strengthen compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
• Programme Leadership and Delivery:
  • Lead and manage large-scale, complex, and high-profile project teams, from strategy through delivery, ensuring quality, client satisfaction and alignment with client and firm objectives.
  • Own engagement performance, including budgets, resources, priorities, risks and clear direction to project teams.
• Client, Stakeholder Management and Team Leadership:
  • Cultivate, manage, and influence complex senior stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, acting as a credible and trusted advisor.
  • Build trusted, long-term relationships with senior…