Trade Operations Manager
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 2 years of experience in program or project management, leading multi-disciplinary projects.
- Experience in supply chain logistics and transportation for managing compliant international shipments.
- Experience in managing and delivering trade compliance projects across the EMEA region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Professional certification in import, export or customs brokerage.
- Experience working in a collaborative, cross-functional environment, both domestic and international.
- Familiarity with EU/EMEA import and export regulations, VAT/excise, HTS classification, customs valuation, consumer hardware certification and global logistics.
- Familiarity with service providers and managing shipping operations in the UK and rest of Europe.
- Understanding of the customs, import, and export regulations to ensure legal compliance.
- Ability to grow in a fast-paced business environment with frequent and rapid priority changes.
About the job
A problem isn’t truly solved until it’s solved for all. That’s why Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe. As a Program Manager at Google, you’ll lead complex, multi-disciplinary projects from start to finish — working with stakeholders to plan requirements, manage project schedules, identify risks, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners across the company. Your projects will often span offices, time zones, and hemispheres. It's your job to coordinate the players and keep them up to date on progress and deadlines.
Google is an engineering company at heart. We hire people with a broad set of technical skills who are ready to take on some of technology's greatest challenges and make an impact on users around the world. At Google, engineers not only revolutionize search, they routinely work on scalability and storage solutions, large-scale applications and entirely new platforms for developers around the world. From Google Ads to Chrome, Android to YouTube, social to local, Google engineers are changing the world one technological achievement after another.
Responsibilities
- Provide advice on customs, import and export regulations applicable to Google’s retail operations and strategic projects in EMEA.
- Manage day-to-day import/export activities including frequent interaction with customs brokers, transportation providers and distribution centers to resolve any customs clearance issues.
- Develop and execute defined procedures and oversight programs with key retail partners (distribution centers and service providers) to streamline international shipping.
- Perform internal customs audits and conduct internal reviews of our trade and logistics practices, including on-site reviews on Third-Party Logistics (3PLs) and customs brokers to ensure adherence with policies and service level agreements.
- Assist with a number of global and regional trade compliance programs and initiatives, including development of policies, workflows, automation, training and compliance toolkits.
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