Senior Global Trade Compliance & FTZ Specialist
About The Position
We're looking for an experienced Senior Global Trade Compliance & FTZ Specialist to join our team! This role ensures compliant, accurate, and timely import activity while supporting the company’s FTZ operations and duty mitigation programs. This role serves as a technical subject matter expert for HTS classification, customs valuation, country of origin, CBP documentation, broker coordination, FTZ inventory control support, and regulatory recordkeeping. The role helps reduce compliance risk, improve customs accuracy, support landed cost control, and maintain reliable flow of imported goods. This is a hybrid position located in Glen Allen, Va, and will report to the Sr Director, Sales - Amazon.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business, management, supply chain management, or other relevant discipline and/or equivalent professional work experience
- Active U.S. Customs Broker License issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
- 3+ years of import compliance, customs brokerage, trade compliance, or related international logistics experience.
- Hands-on knowledge of HTSUS classification, customs valuation, country of origin, marking, import documentation, and broker entry processes.
- Working knowledge of Foreign Trade Zone regulations, transaction flows, inventory controls, and recordkeeping requirements.
- Strong analytical, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills.
- Excel skills and ability to work with ERP, broker, shipment, and customs data.
Responsibilities
- Customs compliance ownership and regulatory recordkeeping, including review of import documentation, entry data, broker instructions, CBP record retention requirements, formal CBP actions, and other government agency/admissibility matters as applicable.
- HTS classification, country of origin, marking, and valuation analysis for imported products, working with product, sourcing, and finance teams as needed.
- FTZ administration, including admissions, inventory control coordination, transfers, withdrawals, reconciliation support, and FTZ recordkeeping.
- Customs broker, freight forwarder, and internal stakeholder coordination to resolve clearance issues, entry discrepancies, CBP inquiries, notices, post-entry corrections, protests, or data exceptions.
- Pre-import review and trade master data maintenance for new products, suppliers, sourcing changes, tariff indicators, COO, valuation, FTZ status, and broker/system data elements.
- Duty optimization and trade program support, including tariff impact analysis, duty drawback support, special tariff programs, exclusions, and FTZ savings tracking.
- Internal audits, compliance testing, and corrective action follow-up for customs entries, classifications, valuation, origin, FTZ transactions, and broker performance.
- Regulatory change monitoring, import/FTZ procedure maintenance, work instructions, internal controls, and supporting compliance documentation.
- Training and cross-functional guidance for procurement, planning, logistics, product, finance, and other teams on customs and FTZ requirements.
Benefits
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Company HSA contributions
- 401(k) plan with immediate vesting
- Profit sharing program
- Paid vacation, holidays, and a paid charitable day
- Summer hours to support work-life balance
- Employee discounts on Hamilton Beach products
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
