As the Senior Manager of Global Trade Compliance and Trade Strategy, you will lead the global trade compliance function, ensuring adherence to all applicable import/export laws and regulations across various regions. You will play a key role in aligning our compliance strategies with Redwood’s growth initiatives. This position requires a strategic leader who can build and maintain strong relationships with external service providers, government officials, and internal teams to ensure seamless compliance processes. Responsibilities include leading a team of trade professionals, mitigating risks related to customs compliance, ensuring accurate tariff classification and documentation; collaborating across multiple departments including supply chain, legal, finance, audit, and compliance to support global business goals and maintain operational excellence in trade compliance and logistics; managing import duty programs and driving continuous improvements in import operations; collaborating with internal teams, external stakeholders, and government authorities to address regulatory requirements pertaining to clearance processes; managing relationships with customs authorities and brokers, and ensuring adherence to corporate policies and global trade laws; evaluating potential operational or compliance risks and developing strategies for resolution; understanding customs classification rules (GRI) and interpreting customs/CIT rulings for both imports and exports; understanding various partner government agency's import requirements and providing assistance to cross-functional teams; responsible for data management, development, and analysis of performance metrics, identifying problems and developing recommendations for trade teams and international logistics; utilizing quantitative skills to create and analyze data and reports to support business execution; supporting the business through ad-hoc queries and maintaining reports; developing business tools and solutions based on knowledge, product or technology; identifying process improvement opportunities through strategic thinking, critical thinking and analysis; performing data management through data mining, data modeling, data analysis, cost/benefit analysis, process mapping or problem analysis while executing day to day processes related to area of responsibility; managing vendor/business partner relationships. Desired qualifications include a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field, Licensed Customs Broker, minimum 7 years in Customs Compliance related experience, experience implementing, managing, and collaborating on trade compliance programs, excellent communication skills, ability to work cross functionally, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, and a passion for sustainability.
