FMC Corporation is a global agricultural sciences company dedicated to helping growers produce food, feed, fiber and fuel for an expanding world population while adapting to a changing environment. FMC's innovative crop protection solutions – including biologicals, crop nutrition, digital and precision agriculture – enable growers, crop advisers and turf and pest management professionals to address their toughest challenges economically while protecting the environment.
The Global Trade Compliance Function at FMC is responsible for ensuring FMC’s compliance with all import and export laws and regulations globally. This means a program that is pragmatic, scalable, sustainable, effective, efficient, and addresses all trade compliance needs for FMC globally.
The Lead, Global Export Controls and Sanctions is responsible for the continuous development and refinement of FMC’s global export controls and sanctions program in alignment with the global trade compliance vision and strategy to ensure export and sanctions compliance across all regions and business functions.
Responsibilities:
- Perform risk assessments regarding current sanctions and export controls by region to identify gaps and opportunities across process controls, systems parameters and performance.
- Create strategic, prioritized action plan to address gaps and opportunities in collaboration with senior management and other regional TC leads.
- In collaboration with function leaders and relevant stakeholders, execute action plan to continuously close gaps.
- Develop a targeted trade compliance training strategy for functional teams to enhance export control and sanctions competencies.
- Collaborate with legal, finance, tax, and other functions as needed to make relevant trade compliance determinations.
- Develop, maintain, and communicate standards to operational teams to facilitate compliant business flow.
- Embed process compliance controls via systemic controls, policies, SOPs, training, data management, and automation where possible.
- Design and facilitate internal audits to ensure compliance with regulations and adherence to internal processes.
- Test and evaluate system data and settings on a periodic basis to detect and rectify systematic non-compliance.
- Present FMC in front of government agencies during audits or inquiries.
- Prepare for and lead through potential external audits.
- Participate in annual review and updates to Policies, Standards, SOPs and Import/Export Compliance Manuals.
- Oversee consulting engagements related to trade compliance decisions or findings.
- Identify opportunities for automation/AI across the global trade compliance program.
- Support SAP GTS to be optimally configured to manage screening for restricted parties for FMC.
- Ensure that global export control and sanctions policies, procedures, standards, processes, desk procedures etc. are documented, mapped, stored, and regularly reviewed.
- Create an optimized governance structure for the export control and sanctions program in alignment with the global structure.
- Develop processes and identify tools to allow FMC to determine dual use, license determination and end-use restrictions.
- Develop record retention standards and tools to comply with local/regional/global/FMC requirements and regulatory requirements.
- Develop country-specific guidance to ensure compliant export operations.
- Serve as escalation point for SPL screening blocks.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 10 -15 years of experience in U.S. export compliance; global experience preferred; import experience a plus.
- In-depth knowledge of U.S. export regulations, including but not limited to BIS, OFAC, Dual Use, Licensing requirements, end-user restrictions.
- Proven experience with managing systemic restricted party list screening.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across departments.
- Expertise with trade compliance software and systems required to manage trade compliance data; experience with SAP (S4HANA & GTS) strongly preferred.
- Ability to establish strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and service providers/consultants.
- Proven ability to develop and deliver export controls and sanctions training programs.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational and problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred:
- Proficient in delivering engaging and impactful presentations to diverse audiences.
- Agile Experience (Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team Member).
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