Trade Manager (APAC)

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At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of 47.000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

YOUR SKILLS

• Bachelor’s Degree in International Business, Supply Chain management, or related disciplines
• At least 5 years of experience with Trade, Customs and Export Compliance
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience with Supply Chain Operations
• Proactive and collaborative working style
• Good Data-Analytic skills
• Knowledge of SAP GTS (Global Trade Service) will be an added advantage
  At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations

Reporting to the Head of Tax and Trade (APAC), you are required to:

• Drive and contribute to CBO (Cross Border Optimization) saving targets via FTA (Free Trade Agreement) implementation and optimization projects within APAC, including cross functional collaboration
• Ensure FTA savings realisations and support any FTA related issues raised by business/operations.
• Contribute and establish export controls, both existing and new for all of APAC (applicable to both Dual use and Drug precursors)
• Support any export control related issues/questions raised by business/operations.
• Drive the Customs Broker management initiative to all APAC businesses to have better visibility of Customs Broker’s performance in terms of compliance level.
• Identify and implement opportunities to automate export processes.
• Support and perform all planned trade compliance health checks for APAC region
• Support and deliver all trade trainings for business/operations and new trade specialists.
• Support any ad-hoc projects (M&A etc.)