Senior Trade Advisory Associate

Exciting Trade Advisory Opportunity to Help Make Global Trade Easy

The opportunity: 

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The global supply chain is one of the most heavily regulated industries for all parties involved.  Everyone from the carriers, intermediaries, trucking companies, 3rd party logistics, freight forwarders, shippers, consignees, importers, exporters, and brokers face a challenging and complex task of navigating through a myriad of laws from the originating country, destination country as well as international treaties and conventions. 

The Trade Advisory team, consisting of business consultants, lawyers and licensed customs brokers, offers advanced customs and trade expertise to help clients identify supply chain risks and cost savings opportunities.  As a Senior Trade Advisory Associate, you will work closely with other Trade Advisory team members to help address and find solutions to trade issues that matter to our clients, furthering the company’s values. Your role would take your trade and industry knowledge to help build our trade advisory services, while servicing our clients.

You will:

• Support trade advisory projects that focus on trade compliance and duty minimization strategies, including Classification, Country of Origin, FTA analysis, FSFE, Compliance assessment, tariff engineering, etc.
• Perform, coordinate, and support Trade Advisory analytics and reporting from a variety of sources.
• Monitor deadlines and draft client deliverables for multiple projects at a given time.
• Proactively stay informed on the latest customs and other government agency regulations, ruling issuances, and industry trends that are relevant to our clients.
• Ensure project timelines, statuses, and invoices are appropriately managed and delivered.
• Coordinate and facilitate software solutions, automation of data analytics, improvement of SOPs, ACE portal access, applications, and integrations.
• Interface with CBP and our clients and offer timely responses, elevating where necessary.
• Maintain active communication with clients, customs and other government authorities, and internal stakeholders.
• Support Trade Advisory infrastructure and administrative requirements.

You should have:  

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university.
• Licensed Customs Broker required, J.D. or graduate degree highly preferred
• 3-5 years trade related experience working in house, at customs brokerage, consulting or law firm preferred.
• Strong technical and business writing skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to stay on top of multiple tasks and projects
• Expertise with Microsoft Office suite and Google equivalents.
• Strong data analytical skills.
• Strong industry knowledge including classification, valuation, duty minimization and avoidance strategies, government regulations and rulings, and other trade information.
• A "compliance first" attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry.