Trade Compliance Manager, Global Supply Chain

At Axis Communications we are passionate about delivering solutions for a smarter and safer world!
Axis success is largely built on highly skilled staff and our strong culture of openness, togetherness and innovative mindset where individuals have opportunity to take responsibility and grow.

The Trade Compliance team enable Axis to import and export products worldwide, always adhering to laws and regulations and striving to minimize import and export costs.
We are now looking for a Trade Compliance Manager to join our team at our head quarter in Lund, Sweden.
Come join our team and contribute to a smarter and safer world!

Who is your future team?
We are a high performing diverse team consisting of twelve skilled persons with different age, gender, nationality, knowledge, and background.

The combination makes us strong and adds flavor and joy to our workplace.
The Trade Compliance organization is a global function which is divided into Export Compliance and Customs Compliance.

The Export Compliance team secures that Axis complies with export control regulations worldwide and that our high-tech products, components and technology are not supplied to restricted countries, parties, or users. This highly specialized team consists of a team lead and three co-workers.

The Customs Compliance team secures that import and export activities are performed in a compliant and efficient manner while striving to minimize customs duty costs. This team consists of eight co-workers with different roles.

Some persons in the team do the import and export declarations for our Swedish flow of goods. Some persons supervise that we through our customs brokers in the countries where we have warehouses (e.g. HU, CZ, PL, US) operate in a compliant and efficient manner and some persons focus more on process development activities.

The Trade Compliance organization is part of the Global Supply Chain team which also responsible for Planning, Material Supply, Fulfillment and Reveres Supply Chain.

What you will do as Trade Compliance Manager:
You will lead and develop the Trade Compliance function (business & people) and enable the individual team members to thrive with the objective to secure that export control, import and export activities are performed in a compliant and efficient manner. You will work closely with a lot of internal and external stakeholders such as Sales, Sourcing, Material Supply, Purchase, Fulfilment, Logistics, R&D, Legal, Distribution, Forwarders, Customs Brokers, Chamber of Commerce, Customs Authorities and Inspection for Strategic Products (ISP).

As a Trade Compliance Manager, you will be involved in/accountable for:

* Compliance of EU and US Export Control legislations, embargoes, and sanctions
* ECCN classification of products, under both EU and US legislation
* Import and export activities
* HS classification of products and BTI (Binding Tariff Information) applications
* Country of Origin determination of products
* Trade Compliance knowledge dissemination, root cause analysis and problem solving activities
* Improvement activities related to Trade Compliance processes, tools and ways of working (Identification, driving and/or supporting process improvements)
* Cross functional projects
* Lead meetings and present information in smaller and larger groups
* Manage the day to day coordination of the Customs Compliance team (the day to day coordination of the Export Compliance team is managed by the team lead).

Who are you?
We believe you are an experienced leader within the field of Trade Compliance, and you are passionate to develop business and people. You have a proven track record of leading and creating a great team spirit where individuals flourish, take responsibility and strive to do their outmost to contribute to the success of the company and the team.
You have a positive mindset, are curious, like to take responsibility and dare to take decisions. You have a strong personal drive and stive for efficiency and continues improvements. You easily co-operate across organizational borders and build strong collaboration and long-lasting relations with key stakeholders. You are passionate about Trade Compliance and Supply Chain and enjoy working in an international environment interacting with stakeholders from all over the world. Moreover, you love to lead an ambitious team where we make things happen!

We'd love to hear that you have/are:

* Education within Export Compliance, Customs and International Trade
* Minimum five years' experience working with Trade Compliance in an international organization
* Proven track record of successfully leading business & people
* Fluent in English, both written and verbally
* Preferably good knowledge in Excel, Access, and Macro
* Preferably experience working with a Trade Compliance IT system and a Customs Administration IT System
* Preferably project leader experience

What Axis have to offer:
Axis is a fast growing and exciting company, already the world leader in our main field - network video. You will work in an international organization with an open-minded and innovative culture where people are enthusiastic and taking pride in what we do.

Working with us gives you an excellent opportunity to develop in an organization that values creativity, empower people to take responsibility and promote professional and individual growth. The positions many interfaces will also provide an excellent opportunity to develop a comprehensive understanding of the Axis business as well as building a broad network. Welcome to join and contribute to our continued success story!

Ready to act?
In case of questions, please reach out to recruiting manager Ulrika Magnusson +46 733 625591