Senior Manager Customs Compliance - Columbus, OH

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

     

JOB DESCRIPTION:

About Abbott

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutritional products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands – including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna®– to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest lives.  

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.

• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

Provide divisional leadership and support to ensure compliance with all relevant US Customs regulations and trade laws, including 19CFR,15CFR, FDA, USDA, and other US regulatory agency requirements. Responsible for supporting the development and implementation of division-level policies and strategies and ensuring that appropriate actions are taken by their division’s sites. It will be the responsibility of this position to develop a staff of experts in the import/export compliance field that will serve the current and future demands of the supply chain operation.

What You’ll Work On

• Responsible for implementing and maintaining the effectiveness of the import and export standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are aligned with Corporate Global Trade Compliance SOPs.
• Develop and implement site policies that are consistent with division-level policies to ensure consistency and synergy across sites.
• Provide strategic input from division import/export perspective on global projects.
• Support division compliance with special trade programs, including Free Trade Agreements (FTA), Foreign Trade Zones (FTZ), Duty Drawback, etc.
• Evaluate and recommend divisional strategies for cost avoidance/reduction, ensuring implementation of effective internal controls to mitigate and manage related risk.
• Develop and foster relationships with related functional areas at site and division level, including plant and warehouse operations, finance, procurement, R&D and other areas involved in import/export activities.
• Monitor customs and trade laws, evaluate divisional impacts (opportunities and risks), and implement action plans to address. Monitor Free Trade Agreements in context of division’s global supply chain and identify savings opportunities.
• Review supply agreements and other contracts to determine potential customs impacts.
• Manage import/export compliance personnel and develop staff including hiring, goal setting, performance, coaching, teamwork, and projects.
• Develop staff by educating them in defined areas of import/export compliance as needed by the business structure. Effective management of cross-functional and/or cross-divisional projects.
• Must frequently use judgment to determine when strict enforcement of requirements vs. exploring compliant alternatives as appropriate.
• Effectively driving for results is a key competency.  Ability to implement compliance processes in areas outside department structures to ensure compliance with regulations.
• Responsible for maintaining proper classification and valuation of goods.
• Experience in effective negotiating, communication (written and oral), and interpersonal skills including ability to