Senior Manager- Global Trade Optimization & Special Programs

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Senior Manager
- Global Trade Optimization & Special Programs Req :

Job Description:

The Senior Manager, Global Trade Optimization & Special Programs leads the architectural design, deployment, systemic maintenance, and health-tracking of the enterprise frameworks for structural customs savings, duty avoidance, and global supply chain security alignment. This role exercises end-to-end programmatic authority over non-transactional specialized regimes—including Foreign Trade Zones (FTZs), Duty Drawback, First Sale Valuation (FSV), Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), and international trade supply chain security initiatives such as Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) and the Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT) programs.

Operating with a global mandate, this leader translates dense statutory mechanisms into repeatable, automated, and legally defensible corporate programs that directly maximize margin and lower the enterprise operational Cost Per Unit (CPU). Rather than clearing freight, handling transactional entry filings, or troubleshooting day-to-day port holds (which sits entirely with regional Import Operations), this position serves as a strategic internal consultant and managed service supplier relationship manager.

The Senior Manager holds ultimate decision-making authority over how outsourced FTZ, Duty Drawback, and First Sale providers format, validate, and transmit data for CBP submissions, ensuring perfect structural alignment with peer trade operations, internal technology standards, and governance pillars. For Tariff Engineering, this role operates strictly in an expert advisory capacity to the sourcing and manufacturing organizations, who retain commercial ownership of the final landed-cost outcomes.

For AEO/C-TPAT, this position owns core program maintenance, portal administration, and annual validation letters, while seamlessly routing background supply chain physical security risk assessments and foreign manufacturer field audits to the Global Trade Governance team.

• Managed Service Provider & Specialist Vendor Governance Govern Optimization Service Providers:
  Manage the end-to-end performance, operational SLAs, and supplier integrity of outsourced Duty Drawback, First Sale, and FTZ administrators.
• Direct First Sale Gatekeeping:
  Review independent manufacturer valuation findings from external First Sale audit experts; perform high-level verification and critical cross-examination of provider calculations to author the final "Go/No-Go" operational recommendations for Global Trade Leadership.
• Trade Program Leadership & Structural Architecture Architect Global Special Programs:
  Provide end-to-end programmatic design, compliance enablement, and qualification frameworks for FTZs, Duty Drawback, Free Trade Agreements, inward/outward processing regimes, and Bonded Logistics Parks across all Disney geographies and lines of business.
• Publish Guideline Frameworks:
  Author, distribute, and maintain specialized program guidelines, eligibility matrices, and qualification rulesets to be executed explicitly by regional Import Operations teams and external customs brokers.
• Deliver Tariff Engineering Advisory Workflows:
  Act as the primary internal Trade advisor to Sourcing, R&D, and Manufacturing during early-stage product design life cycles; identify legally compliant structural duty minimization opportunities.
• Support Global Security & Compliance
  
  Certifications:
  
  Standardize and support global AEO and C-TPAT frameworks through close alignment with regional trade partners and the Trade Governance team.
• Security Program Governance & Portal Administration Central AEO & C-TPAT
  
  Certifications:
  
  Manage the central corporate supply chain security…