Manager – OCS Trade Compliance

Requisition Number: 79094

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Corning’s businesses are ever-evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, automotive, and solar markets. We are changing the world with: 

Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 
Solar polysilicon, wafers, and innovative photovoltaic modules, enabling low-cost solar energy solutions

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Interface across business & regional leadership while acting as an integral part of the business teams to ensure global trade compliance policies and procedures are aligned and integrated with business operations.
• Develops business trade compliance strategy, incorporating knowledge of industry, costs, capabilities, and market conditions and at the same time, ensuring alignment with other strategies such as the business supply chains and commercial strategies, Global Supply Management (GSM) functional strategy, regional GSM strategies, and the global trade compliance strategy.
• Responsible to govern and monitor Country of Origin determination & valuation for the business
• Monitor regulatory changes, customs rulings and court decisions pertaining to those regulations in order to take appropriate action to benefit Corning’s interests
• Respond to inquiries from businesses on regulatory impacts & requirements
• Responsible for any correction of non-compliance found through corporate auditing
• Assures proper risk management strategies are in use to ensure compliance with import/export requirements in cost effective manner
• Determining most advantageous duty rate or special duty savings program (drawback) to reduce total landed cost
• Drives to streamline and optimization customs clearance process to reduce overall lead-times in cooperation with the businesses
• Escalation point with businesses and brokers for timely imports, timely classification of products P

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum 8 years of experience in Trade Compliance or customs experience
• Minimum 2 years of Trade Compliance Import/Export supervisory experience
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in SAP GTS (preferred)  Experience with Customs officials
• Strong Knowledge in HTS Classification, Export Compliance and Foreign Trade Agreements
• Experience in leading organizations within various areas of trade compliance
• Experience in a business operations role
• Experience working in a matrix environment or on a cross functional team Required Skills
• Result-oriented with good interpersonal skills.  Process driven and have good business acumen
• Business integrity, maturity, acumen, professionalism, and teamwork spirit

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