Leads global trade compliance across export controls, sanctions, and customs regulations. Serves as Empowered Official, manages export authorizations and international shipping reviews, advises leadership, interfaces with regulators, supports audits and M&A, investigates disclosures, delivers training, and supervises global trade personnel. Requires extensive ITAR, EAR, defense services, licensing, government systems, and DoD-related compliance experience.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
Valiant is seeking a Global Trade Compliance Manager to lead global trade compliance for Valiant Integrated Defense Services. This role is responsible for the oversight and administration of applicable export control, sanctions, and customs laws and regulations.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the company’s Empowered Official, responsible for management and maintenance of export compliance policies and procedures in accordance with applicable trade laws and regulations.
- Assess new business opportunities and determine global trade compliance requirements.
- Draft, submit, and manage export authorizations including export licenses, technical assistance agreements, and exemptions/exceptions.
- Provide advice and guidance to senior leadership on complex transactions/applications and the implementation of trade regulations.
- Develop and manage comprehensive internal export controls to ensure compliance with regulatory agencies.
- Investigate and submit, with legal counsel, voluntary disclosures and implement corrective actions.
- Support company activities in mergers and acquisitions.
- Serve as primary interface with regulators to address concerns and shape export control policy.
- Maintain an awareness of changing export control laws and regulations and provide analysis regarding applicability and impact to company products and technologies, as well as existing company export policies and procedures.
- Serves as liaison with various corporate functions on integration and other enterprise-wide transformation activities, ensuring trade compliance equities are accounted for.
- Plan and execute internal audit global trade risk mitigation program.
- Document, approve, and review all international shipping to ensure proper compliance.
- Prepare and present global trade compliance training.
- Supervise Global Trade Personnel.
Valiant Integrated Services is an employer who hires in accordance with applicable state and federal law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment in compliance with those laws.
Preferred Qualifications- 10+ years of global trade compliance experience coupled with a background working for or with DoD and intelligence community customers - or equivalent experience.
- Experience with intangible exports, including defense services in support of the US government.
- Experience drafting and submitting export licenses and agreements, interpreting and providing guidance on ITAR and EAR regulations for the licensing of commodities, technologies and defense services.
- Experience with U.S. government systems such as SNAP-R, ACE (AES), DECCS.
- Experience with screening programs and export licensing databases, including OCR EASE. Experience in use of ITAR exemptions and EAR exceptions for export transactions.
- Physical requirements may include, but are not limited to, lifting, ascending, and descending stairs, climbing, extended sitting or standing, to various degrees.
- Other duties as assigned.
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