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Job Overview
The Global Trade Compliance Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and continuously improving Boart Longyear's global trade compliance, tariff management, and duty optimization program.
This position provides strategic leadership and technical expertise across customs, import/export regulations, tariff classification, customs valuation, country of origin, Foreign Trade Zones (FTZ), Free Trade Agreements (FTA), trusted trader programs, and other duty optimization and trade compliance programs.
A key responsibility of the role is to lead the company's global tariff management strategy and mitigation planning, including the identification, assessment, prioritization, and coordination of actions in response to changing tariffs and trade regulations. The role establishes global standards, governance, tools, reporting, and methodologies while working through regional Logistics and Trade Compliance resources to develop strong regional tariff management capabilities.
The Global Trade Compliance Manager partners closely with regional Logistics teams, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Product Management, Operations, Finance, Legal, and external trade advisors to anticipate tariff exposure, quantify business impacts, develop compliant mitigation strategies, and coordinate execution across regions.
The role supports operations across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Australia, and Asia while promoting a consistent global framework with effective regional execution.
Key Responsibilities
1. Global Trade Compliance
Monitor, interpret, and coordinate implementation of applicable global customs, import, export, and trade regulations.
Serve as the global subject matter expert and functional leader for trade compliance across Boart Longyear's operations.
Develop and maintain global governance for Harmonized System and Harmonized Tariff Schedule classification, including classification standards, technical documentation, decision records, controls, and communication of applicable duties and trade measures.
Partner with Engineering and Product Management to establish accurate and supportable classifications for new and existing products.
Develop, maintain, and communicate global trade compliance policies, procedures, controls, and best practices.
Establish minimum global compliance standards while working with regional resources to address country-specific regulatory requirements.
Ensure appropriate governance of customs requirements, import/export obligations, documentation, recordkeeping, and government reporting.
Maintain clear escalation protocols for complex or higher-risk trade compliance matters.
2. Global Tariff Management, Planning and Mitigation
Tariff Strategy and Governance
Lead the global tariff management and mitigation program, establishing the standards, governance, methodologies, tools, and operating processes used across all regions.
Establish a structured process for identifying, assessing, quantifying, prioritizing, and responding to tariff changes and emerging trade measures affecting Boart Longyear's products, materials, suppliers, manufacturing locations, and international trade flows.
Develop global guidelines for tariff exposure assessment and mitigation planning to ensure regions evaluate tariff risks and opportunities using consistent assumptions and methodologies.
Maintain a prioritized view of significant tariff exposures, mitigation opportunities, business impacts, actions, ownership, and status.
Coordinate cross-regional tariff matters where sourcing, manufacturing, intercompany movements, or customer supply chains cross multiple jurisdictions.
Tariff Monitoring and Impact Assessment
Establish a global tariff monitoring and early-warning process in partnership with regional Logistics teams and external trade advisors.
Coordinate assessment of proposed and enacted tariff changes, trade remedies, retaliatory tariffs and other measures that…