Sr. Analyst Logistics Compliance Ops Americas

Company Description

At Intuitive, we are united behind our mission: we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

As a pioneer and market leader in robotic-assisted surgery, we strive to foster an inclusive and diverse team, committed to making a difference. For more than 25 years, we have worked with hospitals and care teams around the world to help solve some of healthcare's hardest challenges and advance what is possible.

Intuitive has been built by the efforts of great people from diverse backgrounds. We believe great ideas can come from anywhere. We strive to foster an inclusive culture built around diversity of thought and mutual respect. We lead with inclusion and empower our team members to do their best work as their most authentic selves.

Passionate people who want to make a difference drive our culture. Our team members are grounded in integrity, have a strong capacity to learn, the energy to get things done, and bring diverse, real world experiences to help us think in new ways. We actively invest in our team members to support their long-term growth so they can continue to advance our mission and achieve their highest potential.

Join a team committed to taking big leaps forward for a global community of healthcare professionals and their patients. Together, let's advance the world of minimally invasive care.

Job Description

Primary Function of Position

The Senior Analyst Logistics Compliance Operations – Americas is responsible for daily import and export operations and activities, processes, policies, and procedures within the region. He/she will serve as a primary point of contact for internal and external inquiries on the import, export, and trade regulations. This individual will work with the customs brokers and forwarders to ensure compliance with applicable company policies and import/export regulations while ensuring the expeditious flow of goods. This individual will provide training to employees involved in international trade.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform import/export activities in compliance with government rules and regulations, organizational policies, procedures, goals, and objectives.
• Manage the daily trade compliance operations for the import/ export transactions within the region by working with customs brokers, carriers, forwarders, and internal teams to ensure timely and accurate clearance process.
• Monitor transactions for compliance with applicable export control laws and regulations, sanctions and embargoes, and anti-boycott regulations; authorize and resolve transaction holds, escalate transaction holds to supervisor for further resolution.
• Respond to and action inquiries from internal and external partners and agencies regarding additional information required for customs clearance, government agency holds, and requests.
• Effectively interact and respond to all government inquiries (CF28/29, PGA) in a factual and timely manner.
• Maintain ACH processing for duty and tax payments.
• Assist in all activities and documentation related to maintaining compliance requirements for valuation (assists), trade preferential and non-preferential, duty suspension, drawback, and economical customs procedures where applicable.
• Provide support and guidance to internal and external customers for import and export shipments including hand carry and carnet shipments to meet regulatory requirements with the government agencies, i.e. Customs, Health Authorities (FDA), Agricultural agency, Department of Commerce and other global customs agencies.
• Shared responsibility for determination of import/ export classification and country or origin for imported/ exported products across multiple business units, including maintenance of the product database.
• Ensure the Importer Security Filing (ISF) for inbound ocean freight is submitted by the customs broker accurately and timely.
• Manage and audit import/ export recordkeeping completeness and accuracy to ensure compliance with the company record retention policy and international trade regulations.
• Perform pre- or post-entry audits on the shipping documentation and customs declaration. Make corrections if required. Responsible for Post Entry Summary Correction program. Prepare Customs reconciliations.
• Support manual creation of shipping documentation including, but not limited to, shipping invoices, packing list, shipper's letter of instruction, and other required certifications, including filing the export declaration through ACE.
• Conduct Denied Party Screening and Embargo and Sanctions Control for off-system transactions.
• Create and maintain customs brokers / forwarders POA and SOPs, including the POA from FP