Trade Compliance Officer

Req ID: 124224 Remote Position: No Region: Europe Country: Spain State/Province: La Pobla De Vallbona City: Valencia **General Overview**: **Functional Area**: SCM - Supply Chain Management **Career Stream**: LOG - Logistics **Role**: Specialist **Job Title**: Import/Export Specialist **Job Code**: SPE-SCM-IMPX **Band**: Level 08 **Direct/Indirect Indicator**: Indirect **Summary**: Celestica Valencia is currently recruiting for a Trade Compliance Officer who will be responsible for ensuring all import and export transactions are flawless and strictly adhere to applicable regulations and corporate policies. This role is pivotal in our ambition to maintain top-tier compliance standards and drive continuous improvement in our processes. This role will report to the site General Manager. **Detailed Description**: **Key Responsibilities**: Establishing and maintaining a culture of site import/export compliance operations **Drives import compliance by**: - Having knowledge of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (EU Tariff) for classifying products - Knowledge of the rules for determining country of origin and "substantial transformation" - Knowledge of applicable free trade agreement requirements and rules of origin - Identify opportunities to mitigate import duties - Knowledge of the customs valuation methodologies and the preferred method - knowledge of incoterms - Oversees the audit of import transactions - Ability to determine when to submit a BTI as needed - Knowledge of the roles and responsibilities of customs brokers - Creates and supports import training efforts as needed **Drives export compliance including the A&D TCP and licensing requirements**: - Knowledge of the applicable export licensing regimes of the A&D programs at the site - Knowledge of the export classification process to ensure correct codes are applied at export - Knowledge of proper use of incoterms and implications - Oversees the audit of export transactions - Creates and supports export training efforts as needed **Awareness and management of ongoing import/export regulatory changes such as**: - EU sanctions and measures on Russia and other countries - Support import reporting of CBAM requirements - Evaluate new regulations impact on site operations and inform management and corporate compliance team **Knowledge/Skills/Competencies**: - Good knowledge of electronics manufacturing environment, materials and processes. - Expert understanding and interpretation of traffic and customs rules and regulations. - Commercial and financial awareness, particularly of transportation and logistics costs and regulations. - Good financial, analytical and negotiation skills. - Ability to identify and resolve high complexity process/system problems using financial, analytical, and/or statistical models. - Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a wide variety of internal and external customers. - Very good command of written & spoken English. **Typical Experience**: - Bachelor’s degree in Transportation/Logistics, Business, or International Trade, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience. - 6+ years of experience in compliance management within a multi-national company, with proven experience managing compliance activities. - Experience in multinational environment. **Notes**: Celestica is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on any protected status (including race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran or disability status or other characteristics protected by law). **COMPANY OVERVIEW**: Celestica (NYSE, TSX: CLS) enables the world’s best brands. Through our recognized customer-centric approach, we partner with leading companies in Aerospace and Defense, Communications, Enterprise, HealthTech, Industrial, Capital Equipment and Energy to deliver solutions for their most complex challenges. As a leader in design, manufacturing, hardware platform and supply chain solutions, Celestica brings global expertise and insight at every stage of product development - from drawing board to full-scale production and after-market services for products from advanced medical devices, to highly engineered aviation systems, to next-generation hardware platform solutions for the Cloud. Headquartered in Toronto, with talented teams spanning 40+ locations in 13 countries across the Americas, Europe and Asia, we imagine, develop and deliver a better future with our customers. Celestica would like to thank all applicants, however, only qualified applicants will be contacted. Celestica does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies or fee based recruitment services.