Specialist, Customs Compliance

CHANEL • Fort Washington, MD

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL. About the role: CHANEL is looking for a customs compliance specialist to join our Customs & Regulatory Compliance team in Piscataway, NJ. You will play a leading role in facilitating the customs regulatory compliance needs across fashion, watches, fine jewelry, fragrance, and beauty divisions to ensure on time entry into the US market. This role interfaces with US legal, US F&B regulatory, Global fashion regulatory, and Global supply chain teams across fashion, watches & fine jewelry, fragrance & beauty and is a key partner for US merchandising, fashion account management, press and celebrity relations, and finance. Our ideal candidate will have 3 years of experience in the customs compliance space. What impact you can create at CHANEL:

Requirements

• A degree in business administration, supply chain management, finance, compliance
• A licensed customs broker
• Experience importing and exporting consumer goods, strong preference for fashion and beauty products
• 3 years minimum experience in customs compliance

Responsibilities

• Customs Compliance: Perform USHTS classification for fashion, WFJ, F&B, and non-sellable materials
• Review product compositions for compliance flags (i.e. FWS, APHIS, FDA)
• Review of imports for compliance with TSCA and Lacey Act compliance
• Manage import data requirements and cross functional coordination with relevant teams
• Keep up with changing import tariff regulations (i.e. 232, 301) and communicate the changes to the business
• Knowledge of Trade Remedy issues, such as ADD/CVD.
• Answer CF28/29 requests from CBP as required with support from legal counsel
• Import/Export Processing: Support the cross-border coordination of Press and VIP movements
• Communicate import requirements to global and US teams to ensure wheels-up entry on time for all imports
• Investigate and answer broker questions across all inbound shipments
• Generate pro forma’s as needed for export
• Review pre-alerts to ensure all required data is available before import, and escalate missing data as needed to Global teams
• Attend weekly customs broker meeting to address import issues
• Manage priority imports based on business-critical needs
• Ensure import KPI’s are met, highlighting impacts to the business and solutions when issues arise.
• Data Analysis: Data entry for import/export of high-jewelry loan items as needed
• Pull ACE reports to capture Chanel’s duty monthly spend
• Ability to work across different reporting systems (i.e SAP, OrliWeb, MMS, My Tower)
• Comfort with PowerBI and Microsoft systems

Benefits

• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing and a Wellbeing fund
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
• 401K and other incentives
• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees