Senior Trade Compliance Manager, South Africa, Global Trade Services at Amazon

Description

Are you an experienced trade compliance leader passionate about cross-border trade? Come make history in Amazon’s Global Trade Services team supporting Amazon’s cross-border operations and trade lane expansions. Amazon is looking for a Sr Trade Compliance Manager to drive critical large-scale cross-functional projects. You will enable new business opportunities by executing on a broad range of project management, program management and trade compliance matters. You will work directly with business leadership, tax, legal, catalog, inventory management, procurement teams, logistics, and other internal business partners to drive projects that address critical business and regulatory requirements. In this role, you will be part of a team responsible for the development of the strategies, policies, processes, tools and solutions that will be a key enabler for cross-border movement of goods into South Africa.

This candidate will be a self-starter with strong knowledge of Trade Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Regulators and cross-border movements of goods in South Africa with a strong track record of delivering projects that involves coordination across different functions. To be successful in this role, you will be a Trade Compliance professional and demonstrate an on-going curiosity and creativity, balanced with the ability to distill numerous inputs/ideas into meaningful actions and recommendations. Strong Project Management skills are required to be successful in this role. This is an exciting and challenging position that provides Trade Compliance support to Amazon’s Retail business by acting as the SME leader to a team obsessed with ensuring Amazon’s successful adherence to trade regulations. This role is responsible for defining and enforcing regulatory requirements, and driving Amazon policy at scale. You must be able to interface effectively and communicate convincingly with leaders at all levels, including the executive leadership team. You will demonstrate the ability to work well and influence strategically in both small team and large, cross-functional environments. As part of this, you will build and leverage a network of stakeholders and internal customers who will help both validate and challenge your approach / recommendations in a constructive fashion. The right candidate must have a record of accomplishment in Trade Compliance and program ownership. This is your opportunity to work in a highly visible space and be part of a vibrant and fast-growing company!

Key job responsibilities
In this role you will

• Manage GTS Trade Compliance program for South Africa to ensure customs compliance.
• Work with Amazon’s Global Trade Services team to execute strategy, drive and enforce global import / export processes, seek automation opportunities and leverage technologies.
• Engage with technical teams to influence road-map for internal systems used to carry out import and export operations.
• Drive scalable business solutions and ensure compliance with trade regulations.
• Liaise with authorities and manage customs brokers involved in Amazon's import process to South Africa.
• Collaborate with business units to proactively identify compliance issues and comply with regulatory obligations
• Work with manufactures/vendors to set up import processes to support importing/exporting operations.
• Partner with service leaders across Amazon to identify and influence the development of new programs/products and services

A day in the life
In this role no two days will be exactly the same but regular activities will include:

• Drafting recommendations on how to meet trade compliance requirements for new and innovative business initiatives.
• Engaging directly with regulators, including but not limited to South African Customs on trade related matters.
• Working with business, legal and logistics stakeholders to develop strategies to support rapid growth of Amazon's import and export programs.
• Collaborating with technical teams to define requirements for Amazon's systems, driving relevant import and export programs.
• You will be responsible to ensure the accuracy in import declarations - including classification, customs valuation, other regulations.
• Working with operations teams to troubleshoot issues and drive ongoing process improvement

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain, Finance, Business, Accounting or Trade related field.
• 5-10 years of experience with import/export compliance
• 5+ years of experience with South African import/export regulations with proven knowledge of South African Customs regulations
• 5-7 years of experience in process definition, having taken a process from concept to execution
• Prior experience in a large-scale Project Management role
• Proven experience with driving data driven results
• Experience developing processes to meet internal control requirements
• Ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including senior leadership.
• Must be able to think creatively and possess analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to demonstrate sound judgment in ambiguous situations.
• Ability to turn complex compliance requirements into scalable processes.

Preferred Qualifications
Graduate Degree (Masters, JD, or PhD).

• PMP Certification or equivalent Project Management certification.
• Familiarity with SQL.
• Knowledge on Transfer Pricing Adjustments