Supply Chain Associate Manager

Overview:
**Responsibilities**:

- Create baseline of free trade agreements, special programs, free trade zones and special duty regimes that are currently being used
- Create a baseline of existing incoterms being used and create incoterm based strategies for operational benefits and possiblee productivity working alongside the ocean procurement team
- Analyze new duty optimization opportunities that leverage the team’s productivity targets such as free trade agreements or special import/export programs
- Support the team’s automation initiatives in collaboration with the global excellence and continuous improvement teams
- Support team in delivering baseline of existing incoterms, free trade agreements, special import export programmes, free trade zones and import export duty regimes.
- Support yearly strategies for the customs and trade team including operational forecasting, planning and working together with the ocean procurement manager for volume forecasting and planning.
- Support standardization, continuous improvement, and knowledge management to unlock overall I/E and Customs & Trade optimization and decision making across sectors
- Support automation initiatives that result in productivity and time for the team
- Build and strengthen relationships across sectors to assure smooth import export operation of goods
- Leverage and replicate good practices across sectors
- Create and control SOP’s for the various C&T Sectors insuring service levels across sectors for internal customers
- Contribute to a 4% YOY productivity from Import-Export (Customs, Duties, Assessorial charges) through cost transformation delivering ~$65 MM to PEP 2023-2025 and develop detailed plans for additional years 2026+.
- Analyze all import/export operations across globe in order to identify possible C&T optimization opportunities and related compliance impacts seeking to reduce risks, compliance issues, and governmental audits.
- Establish Global communities of practice for I/E improving sector collaboration with Global team and with each other and sharing best practices

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in International Trade, Business, Supply Chain
- 08-10 years leading teams related to customs & trade and/or compliance
- Ability to positively influence teams outside of direct responsibility and across multiple business units
- Capable of working in a remote work group and being managed by a remote manager
- Utilize technical/functional knowledge that creates opportunities and solves business problems
- Ability to drive large transformational change agenda to include people, process, technology transformation
- Ability to identify business issues and develop a business case / charter for action
- Self-starter with attention to detail and experience leading multiple teams
- Ability to work collaboratively and proactively across multi-functional, sector, and business teams
- Excellent written and oral communication skills; proactively communicates using appropriate methods for situation and
- audience in clear, concise and professional manner
- English Fluency both written and verbal required; Exceptional communication skills across global businesses
- (additional languages a plus)
- Strong track record to manage multiple competing cross-functional priorities
- Experience in being part of and supporting large, complex best practices or projects
- Experience with IT platforms and tools including design, configuration, development and implementation
- Experience working with cross-functional competencies, people, and teams
- Strong track record of developing capabilities
- Strong track record in formulating innovative solutions and driving change
- Ability to navigate through ambiguity and adapt quickly to a changing environment
- Strong team player passionate about collaborating, coordinating, and committed to teamwork in all situations
- Advanced excel and other Microsoft tools (Powerapps, PowerBI/Tableau)