Global Trade Compliance Specialist

You may know McCormick as a leader in herbs, spices, seasonings, and condiments – and we’re only getting started. At McCormick, we’re always looking for new people to bring their unique flavor to our team.

McCormick employees – all 14,000 of us across the world – are what makes this company a great place to work.

 

We are looking to hire a Trade Compliance Specialist immediately in a Hybrid (50/50) capacity at our Global Headquarters in Hunt Valley, Maryland. 

 

What We Bring To The Table:

The best people deserve the best rewards. In addition to the benefits you’d expect from a global leader (401k, health insurance, paid time off, etc.) we also offer:

• Competitive compensation

• Career growth opportunities

• Flexibility and Support for Diverse Life Stages and Choices

• Wellbeing programs including Physical, Mental and Financial wellness

• Tuition assistance

 

 

Position Overview

Manage International Trade Compliance that helps reduce exposure from violations both in Import and Export regarding products leaving/arriving from the Americas to worldwide countries, in liaison with US/CA/MX regulations.

Responsible for the technical analysis and maintenance of Tariff Classifications, to provide guidance, knowledge of International trade treaties, trade documentation, Law and Customs related activities and a requirement to maintain communications with Legal departments and government agencies such as Customs, FDA, USDA etc.

Position collaborates with other functions for alignment of business processes and information. This position serves as the top functional consultant on all projects touching their area of expertise.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

 

 

Contribute to International Trade Compliance strategies and provide guidance and strategic support to Managers, internal and external business stakeholders that helps reduce risk and exposure from compliance violations for importing and exporting activities in The Americas. Responsibilities of this position include:

• • Analysis of Company Flavor Solutions and Retail products, spices, flavors, seasonings and batter/breader systems.
  • Product classification with commodity codes including tariff engineering.
  • Origin determination including preference eligibility verification enabling product cost optimization and duty savings.
  • Analysis of International Trade Compliance regulations and implementation of plan or action steps as necessary in liaison with other business functions (R&D, QA, Regulatory, Supply Chain, Finance, Import/export team and Customer Services etc.).
  • Supply Chain scenarios advisory including document requirements, licenses, product / entity registrations and duty analysis for both import and export transactions.
  • Implementation and management of Export Procedures aiming at reduction / elimination of incurred costs related to duties and other levies and subsequent adherence to International Trade Compliance framework.
  • Embargo and Boycott Language compliance.
  • Business Partners screening against Specially Designated Nationals and Sanctioned Party Lists as well as AES filings for Export.
  • Internal and external training delivery to ensure compliance and ‘best practice’ maintenance that reduces exposure to fines and penalties.
  • Managing International Trade Compliance data on all workflow Tools in The Americas region as well as GTS master data maintenance (including HTS and import / export license setup).
  • Communication with internal and external stakeholders including Governmental Agencies and Customs.
  • Recommendation and scoping of process improvements to ensure that the business is compliant and legal as well as contributing to overall team cost avoidance and savings delivery.

Management of Export Audits including definition and deployment of mitigation actions to Export team. Provide support to Auditors and Compliance Managers.

Builds networks, benchmarks, and actively engages with external shared groups to gain insights on government regulations and how they impact McCormick & Co., Inc. Assures adherence to regulations and requirements.

 

Export compliance:

• • Work with various internal cross functional departments to provide any necessary documents required under Export regulations an