Director, Trade Compliance

About ITT:

ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) is a diversified global leading manufacturer of highly engineered critical components and customized technology solutions serving the flow, aerospace and defense, transportation, industrial, and energy markets. Through operational execution, innovation, and disciplined capital deployment, including strategic acquisitions such as SPX FLOW, ITT partners with its customers to deliver enduring solutions to the key industries that underpin our modern way of life.

Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, ITT has a market cap of roughly $20 billion and employs more than 15,000 people across 40 countries and serves customers in approximately 125 countries. Following the acquisition of SPX FLOW, the company is expected to generate $5.4 billion in annual revenue.

Our businesses are organized in three distinct segments, each based around our core engineering DNA:

Flow Technologies: A global leader in, providing a broad portfolio of pumps, valves, mixing and agitation equipment, heat transfer, homogenizers, separation, water and wastewater treatment, and engineered process solutions. Our leading brands include the iconic Goulds Pumps (with more than 175 years of history),
Anhydro
, APV
, Bornemann
, Bran+Luebbe
, C’treat
, Engineered Valves
, Gerstenberg Schröder
, Goulds Pumps
, Habonim
, Johnson Pump
, Lightnin
, Philadelphia
, Plenty
, PRO Cast
, Rheinhütte
, Seital Separation
, Stelzer
, Svanehøj
, Tigerholm
, Uutechnic
, VIDAR
, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell
.

Motion Technologies: A global leader in brake pads (ICE and electrified brake pads) and shock absorbers (energy absorption solutions) for transportation applications. Our leading brands include Friction Technologies
, KONI and Axtone
.

Connect and Control Technologies: A leader in critical applications for the aerospace, defense and industrial markets, including harsh environment connectors and control components. Our leading brands include ITT Cannon
, Enidine
, Aerospace Controls and kSARIA
.

ITT Inc. is seeking a talented, energetic, and self‑motivated trade professional with at least 10 years of relevant experience to lead the trade compliance team of the Flow Technologies (FT) Value Center and serve as Director, Trade Compliance, FT. This person is primarily responsible for ensuring the global export and import health of Flow Technologies through the implementation of strategies that provide direction and regulatory guidance to FT, ensuring compliance with the ITT Code of Conduct, policies, procedures, and U.S. and international export and import law.

• Determines and communicates appropriate management accountability and responsibility for trade compliance. Interfaces regularly with Value Center (VC) and corporate leadership as well as the VC general counsel.
• Develops and implements global trade policy and strategy to the VC and provides regulatory guidance to all global IP locations.
• Directs the trade control infrastructure at all IP locations relative to:
  • trade staff
  • training/communications initiatives
  • operational processes
  • export licensing/classification
  • export/import compliance
  • trade policy
  • export/import violation identification/disclosure
• Specifically, the Trade Compliance Director:
  • Designs and oversees the implementation of trade compliance programs and evaluates and monitors their effectiveness. Focuses on continuous improvement of trade compliance processes to drive efficiency and accuracy.
  • Cultivates a high performing team by driving accountability, providing strategic direction, coaching and mentorship of the VC trade compliance professionals.
  • Works collaboratively across other VC Trade Compliance teams to share expertise and strategy for managing complex compliance processes.
  • Drives global alignment for tariff classification, country of origin and Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCN).
  • Addresses denied party and sanction screening issues; escalates to leadership as needed.
  • Oversees third party Customs brokers and agents to ensure consistent compliance standards across all global locations.
  • Performs periodic internal audits to review, test, and evaluate the implementation of compliance directives…