Manager, Trade Compliance

The driving force behind our success has always been the people of AspenTech. What drives us, is our aspiration, our desire and ambition to keep pushing the envelope, overcoming any hurdle, challenging the status quo to continually find a better way. You will experience these qualities of passion, pride and aspiration in many ways — from a rich set of career development programs to support of community service projects to social events that foster fun and relationship building across our global community.

• Develops and promotes the strategic initiatives in collaboration with the General Counsel, by leading and implementing projects on a global level
• Training Program Support: maintaining training materials in the Global Learning Center, scheduling training sessions and maintaining the training calendar, keeping the training catalogue up to date, and managing training metrics
• Customs Support: maintaining regional import and drawback bonds, maintaining power of attorneys, performing trade account owner duties in ACE, managing the collection and maintenance of business unit brokerage SOP’s and FPPI and WA docs
• Overall ITC Program support: developing and implementing Emerson standards, facilitating import and export activities at Emerson, site visits and audits, compliance guidance to divisions in escalated issues, third party/ restricted party screening management
• Oversee special export compliance programs such as Embargoes and Sanctions, Military/ITAR, Technology, Software/Encryption, Cloud Computing, Nuclear, Classifications, Deemed and Routed Exports
• Oversee special import compliance programs such as Free Trade Agreements, Bonded Operations, Royalties, Drawback/Suspension, Paperless Clearances, Classifications and Valuation
• Oversee supply chain security compliance programs such as Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) (e.g., Europe, Mexico, Gulf Cooperation Council) and Partners in Protection (PIP)
• Participate on other functions teams – ie. brokerage mode team
• Collects and uses data from the team to monitor progress and present results to Senior Management to address deficiencies in applicable programs;
• Contributes to strategic planning and roadmap development efforts to support the Emerson legal team;
• Establishes and implements a communication strategy with project stakeholders;
• Manages support resources to ensure that all applicable systems are monitored and performing as expected, escalating issues where necessary;
• Maintains collaborative working relationships with all team members and assists as needed in the development of projects and pursuits;
• Leads and coordinates the administrative functions necessary to publish and deliver training programs;
• Ensures that applicable system implementations satisfy Emerson requirements for internal controls;
• May coach team members in managing and developing them;
• Drives team building, engagement, and culture change initiatives;
• Proactively and independently resolves complex challenges where precedent may not exist;
• Identifies and advances strategic improvement opportunities and other tasks as assigned.

• 7-10 years of relevant work experience
• 3-5 years of direct people leader experience
• Associate or Bachelor’s Degree required 
• Candidate must be able to navigate and interpret import and export laws and regulations, and/or be willing to learn 
• Paralegal certificate, advanced degree, or equivalent preferred
• Advanced MS Office skills
• Excellent oral and written English skills
• Comfortable working with senior management
• Strong organizational skills, reliable and good attention to detail