Country Trade Compliance Officer (UAE QA JO) and MEA Cluster Lead

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You will be working as Country Trade Compliance Officer (UAE, QA, JO), will be the part of Electrification Business Area for EL Business Area division based in Dubai, UAE. In this role you will be responsible for ensuring that all local businesses conduct their activities in line with ABB trade policies and guidelines, as well as to drive and coordinate the local implementation of ABB`s Global Trade Program. Key focus is the oversight of compliance with all applicable customs, sanctions and export control regulations and to regularly update local management and global trade compliance/trade management on (potential) risk areas

This position reports to

Country Holding Officer (CHO) \xe2\x80\x93 Electrification

Your responsibilities

• Serving as single point of contact for local (national) trade compliance authorities and country management (respectively lead local business management) in handling trade compliance relating to ABB (deemed) exports, cross-border shipments, customers or vendors
• Ensuring the creation and maintenance of written trade compliance standards and procedures for all local businesses addressing all applicable export control, sanctions and customs requirements
• Ensuring transaction-based compliance with regulatory customs requirements, cooperating closely with staff in related domains to ensure seamless connection between overall trade compliance and day-to-day operations, including master data requirements, supplier qualifications etc
• Ensuring, through appointed business-based Product Classification Engineers (PCEs) and responsible local business management, that all imported and exported products, software and technologies are properly classified with respect to relevant national and international export control regulations and national tariff / commodity classification
• Assisting in classification for special transactions, as needed. Ensure maintenance of classification in relevant systems, overseeing trade related archiving requirements, ensuring that trade compliance records are kept and retrievable, as defined in the relevant instructions and regulations, ensuring the effective use of ABB`s custom and trade compliance management systems (i.e. SAP\xe2\x80\x99s GTS and Document Management System)
• Ensuring the efficient implementation of the automated screening solution, as well as the customs management functionalities, for both imports and exports, providing local business leaders, the CHO and the Business Area Trade Manager periodic updates regarding the status of the local trade compliance program and on significant changes in applicable trade regulations
• Developing and implementing a strategy to monitor, managing and mitigating trade compliance related risks and opportunities, including close cooperation with customs operations staff and the preparation and use of regular local internal trade reviews (audits of trade compliance) in the Local Businesses, communicating trade compliance updates and promote general awareness of trade compliance in the local organization
• Implement a trade compliance training program to ensure basic knowledge and awareness across the entire local organization and raise specific expertise where needed, in line with the ABB Global Trade Program, maintaining local trade compliance page on ABB`s intranet, ensuring that trade compliance targets are achieved, delivering on budget and targets within the framework
• Ensuring with HR, CHO and local business management support that trade compliance is properly organized, staffed, skilled and directed, at local business line level, guiding, motivating and developing nominated LTCO`s within HR policies, for the benefit of both ABB and the employee

Your background

• Master\xe2\x80\x99s Degree in any discipline
• The CTCO must have several years of experience with business processes and a good understanding of end-to-end supply chain process, risk management and logistics
• Knowledge of export control and customs rules and regulations is essential
• Fluency in English language is mandatory

Benefits

• Retirement plan

More about us

ABB\xe2\x80\x99s Electrification business is responsible for the go-to-market strategy and generating profitable growth for the Electrification Business Area. Our 10,000 strong commercial team represents the portfolio of all Electrification Business Area Divisions in over 100 countries. Our unmatched domain expertise across key industry verticals and channels combined with our truly global footprint makes us able to deliver extraordinary business results, supporting our customers with solutions which address their current needs, whilst considering the future emerging trends such as Urbanization, Digitalization and Shift to Electricity and Sustainable Energy Work model: hybrid #LI-hybrid

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