Sr. Trade Compliance Analyst

Senior Trade Compliance Analyst – Role Overview

Join us as we empower the world to work out, creating healthier lives together. At Life Fitness / Hammer Strength, we’re not just building equipment—we’re shaping the future of fitness. As pioneers in fitness innovation, we design and manufacture the most durable, high-performance, and reliable fitness solutions in the world, empowering people and communities to live healthier lives. Our success is driven by a culture that puts customers first, embraces collaboration, and continuously raises the bar on performance, quality, and innovation.

Our Senior Trade Compliance Analyst is responsible for owning key elements of Life Fitness / Hammer Strength’s global import and export compliance program and serving as a subject matter expert across the business. This role also serves as a strategic business partner and change agent, identifying opportunities to optimize trade compliance processes, mitigate risk, improve operational efficiency, and drive cost savings across the global supply chain.

This role operates with significant autonomy and sound judgment on complex, ambiguous issues. It partners with sourcing, engineering, legal, and the business units as a trusted advisor, mentors junior team members, and strengthens the processes and controls that keep the company compliant with U.S. Customs (CBP), BIS, and international regulations. The role is a hybrid position based out of our Global Support Center in Rosemont, IL.

M/F remote and T-Th are in‑office collaboration days.

• Lead cross‑functional trade compliance initiatives involving Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, and Legal to improve business processes, reduce compliance risk, and enhance operational efficiency.
• Make HTS / Schedule B and ECCN determinations, document the supporting rationale, and prepare binding ruling requests with CBP when classification is ambiguous.
• Qualify goods under USMCA and other Free Trade Agreements, issue certifications, and own the annual country of origin and FTA solicitation project.
• Serve as the classification and origin authority for EU, UK, and other regional brokers.
• Analyze BOM data to support FTA qualification and manufacturing drawback.
• Adjudicate denied party screening results, investigating and resolving potential matches, documenting the disposition, and escalating to legal when warranted.
• Lead responses to CBP inquiries, post summary corrections, protests, prior disclosures, and Focused Assessments, serving as a direct point of contact with CBP and brokers.
• Own broker management, including issuing broker instructions, auditing broker and AES filing accuracy and performance, and reconciling discrepancies.
• Own the duty drawback program, preparing and reviewing claims, setting filing strategy, and maximizing recovery.
• Maintain a compliant, audit‑ready record retention system that meets all government requirements.
• Identify and pursue duty savings and risk mitigation opportunities, including FTA utilization, duty deferral, valuation, and tariff engineering inputs.
• Develop business cases, implementation plans, and stakeholder alignment strategies to successfully execute opportunities from concept through realization.
• Monitor regulatory changes across CBP, BIS, OFAC, and Census / FTR, and assess and communicate business impact.
• Design and deliver the import and export compliance training program.
• Write and maintain standard operating procedures and relevant sections of the compliance manual.
• Lead trade compliance projects and process improvements, and review the work of and mentor junior analysts.
• Manage project timelines, stakeholder communications, and implementation activities to ensure successful delivery of strategic…