Sr. Manager, Trade Compliance

Vantor • Westminster, CO

5d • $120,000 - $176,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented Senior Manager, Compliance to join their team in the Westminster, CO office. This is a hands-on individual contributor export compliance lead role with ownership of Vantor’s export-controls function, inclusive of drafting and applying for export authorizations. The ideal candidate will be responsible for classifying, marking and managing export-controlled documents and facilitating Vantor’s Compliance function. In this role, you will help protect Vantor’s ability to serve mission-critical customers by ensuring compliance with U.S. export control laws and ensuring activities are reviewed with speed, consistency, and sound compliance judgment.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident
• Bachelor's degree in business or a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience
• Expert knowledge and experience in ITAR and EAR export license drafting and implementation, and classification of items in accordance with the regulations and interpretive guidance.
• Proficiency in DECCS, SNAP-R licensing portals

Nice To Haves

• Satellite and spacecraft industry experience on export issues
• Investigative skills, including ability to be discreet and manage confidential information
• Proven capability to use independent judgment and professionalism
• Confidence in the application of U.S. export control laws and design of Compliance programs
• Excellent judgment with the ability to balance competing priorities and meet deadlines
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to listen, learn and influence a global network of management-level personnel
• Excellent communications skills

Responsibilities

• Lead, enhance, and maintain Vantor’s global Compliance program, including policies, procedures, work instructions, controls, metrics, and governance for export, reexport, transfer, retransfer, sanctions, and restricted-party compliance.
• Provide senior-level guidance on ITAR, EAR, OFAC, CBP, Census/AES, anti-boycott, and other trade-related requirements affecting Vantor’s products, services, technologies, data, software, technical information, and international activities.
• Partner with several internal teams including Security, Contracts, Procurement, Product, Engineering, Program Management, Sales, Cybersecurity and Business Development to embed compliance into business planning and execution.
• Develop scalable compliance processes that support Vantor’s spatial intelligence platform, ground stations, satellite tasking and imagery products, data and analytics offerings, software tools, APIs, professional services, and cloud computing environments.
• Function as an export authority for commercial foreign programs, providing analysis of U.S. Government import/export regulations (ITAR/EAR), laws and requirements.
• Obtain detailed information from technical teams related to spacecraft programs and components in order to prepare and submit required import/export licenses and agreements.
• Determine or assist in the determination of the classification of Vantor products, software, technical information and technologies according to import and export control requirements.
• Be the subject matter expert for the classification and marking of technical data, software, hardware and defense services.
• Lead or support trade compliance audits, self-assessments, transaction testing, root-cause reviews, corrective actions, and continuous-improvement initiatives.
• Monitor regulatory developments and enforcement trends; assess impact to Vantor’s business and update policies, procedures, tools, and training accordingly.
• Support investigations, voluntary disclosures, remediation plans, and corrective-action tracking, in partnership with Legal and Ethics & Compliance.
• Manage multiple deadlines simultaneously and provide guidance and practical solutions to cross-functional projects effectively and on-time.
• Work effectively as a team member and in an independent manner, and consistently exercise good business judgment.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior