Specialist, Global Trade Compliance

Job Description

About This Role
The purpose of this role is to develop, implement, manage, and advance Biogen’s Trade Compliance program for designated territories, as well as develop, oversee, and manage Biogen’s trade compliance analytics capabilities globally. This role is responsible for creating local and regional processes and systems, facilitating trade, optimizing duty programs, ensuring compliance to trade controls such as Free Trade Agreements, Customs Valuation, HTS Classification, restricted party screening and contract governance.
Additionally, this role will lead the Analytics COE, supporting data-driven decision-making, program monitoring, and compliance optimization strategies. Balancing these responsibilities, the role requires cross-functional coordination with logistics, manufacturing, finance, tax, IT, operations excellence, and other functions across Biogen business units and geographic landscape.
Furthermore, as a Subject Matter Expert, this role will proactively identify, advise, and adapt processes and capabilities to emerging trade issues and changing regulatory landscape, ensuring that Biogen’s global trade programs adhere to all applicable import/export regulations, and facilitating business continuity. You will represent Biogen with Customs Agencies and Trade Organizations for the designated territories to reduce trade related risks and enable Biogen’s strategic business objectives.

What You’ll Do
Global Trade Compliance Program:

• Develop, implement, manage, and advance TC regulatory and operations program, including establishing controls, procedures, and best practices. 
• Manage day to day trade operations of designated territories. Set up and manage customs brokers of designated territories (POA, import/export clearance instruction, QBR, performance metrics). Manage import/export licenses application process. Monitor and mitigate trade compliance risks by conducting post entry audits and developing metrics. 
• Liaison between Biogen entities, Customs, and participating gov. agencies. 
• Work closely with Distribution and Logistics and other internal partners to enable and streamline, import/export and international distribution activities.
• Proactively monitor, anticipate and adapt trade compliance controls to emerging trade issues, government and regulatory changes. Implement compliant solutions to ensure business continuity. 
• Become SME for topics related to trade compliance operations in designated territories.
• Due diligence assessments and contract governance oversight to enable product launches, mergers and acquisitions, and partnerships for the region. 
• Responsible for implementing and maintaining duty optimization programs (e.g., Preferential programs, import regimens, trusted trader certifications, etc.). 
• Develop and deploy GTC training portfolio for cross border moves to increase and ensure awareness of trade compliance for stakeholders, partners, service providers, etc.

Global Trade Compliance Insight Driven Analytics COE:

• Develop foundational capabilities and manage TC Analytics best developed practices.
• Global customs data collection, data analysis, optimization, and reporting
• Develop system and analytics capabilities to proactively identify import requirements and import tax impact across different sourcing scenarios
• Develop system and analytics capabilities to manage efficient and sustainable Post Entry Audits and Annual risk assessments
• Build analytics capabilities and standardize practices to manage a single repository of Customs filings globally
• Work with regional and country leads to develop, implement and maintain standard TC dashboard and scorecard (including TC operations, Broker Management and compliance KPIs)

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• University degree in a related field or equivalent experience, certifications
• Minimum 2 years of trade compliance related work experience with Multinational Companies of regulated industries
• Solid knowledge of International Trade fundamentals (HTS classification, COO, valuation, Incoterm etc.), and customs and FDA compliance programs development
• Experience working with Oracle’s Global Trade Management or similar ERP trade compliance modules

Preferred Experiences and qualifications:

• U.S. Licensed customs broker
• Experience working with US and other region’s customs, FDA and other government agencies
• Experience with BI tools and other data analytics software
• Technical knowledge and experience on business analytics, risk mapping projects
• Project management experience
• Ability to work in a diverse global team with resources based across multiple countries 

Additional Information

Why Biogen?
Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

Why Biogen?

Our mission to find therapies for neurological and rare diseases is a unique focus within our industry and this shared purpose is what connects us as a team. We work together to overcome obstacles and to follow the science. We are resilient as we strive to make an impact on our patients’ lives and on changing the course of medicine. Together, we pioneer. Together, we thrive.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about our DE&I efforts.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.