Lead, Trade & Customs

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LEAD SCO TRADE & CUSTOMS – COMPLIANCE GOVERNANCE

LOCATION, WHQ, BEAVERTON, OR

The Nike Trade and Customs team within Supply Chain Operations is dedicated to fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth and development.

WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH

In this role, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our trade compliance framework and offering critical compliance expertise to our global stakeholders. To effectively lead in this role you will work with across the global trade network and other key partners at Nike. While this role has no direct reports, it requires a large amount of influence and partnership. 

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

As Lead, Trade and Customs - Compliance Governance you will be responsible for supporting the evolution and ongoing implementation of Nike’s SCO Trade Compliance Framework. This role will drive and enable trade compliance best practices across the organization through new compliance tools, escalation processes, stakeholder engagement practices, and risk mitigation programs.

Leading cross-functional teams, coordinating projects, and ensuring alignment with organizational strategies and best practices will be some of your key responsibilities. As Lead, you will serve as a key facilitator for various compliance initiatives, while supporting a high-performing and self-organizing team.

Qualifying factors:

• You are open to working at Nike WHQ, Beaverton, Oregon.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field.  Will accept any suitable combination of education, experience and training. 
• Have 5 to 10 years of experience in trade, customs compliance, supply chain, finance, internal audit or a similar role in medium to large companies. Master’s degree preferred. 
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and cross-culturally to build strong relationships in person and virtually.
• U.S. Customs Broker’s license (highly preferred).
• Track record of creating new ways of thinking, developing and implementing processes, process improvement, and driving change.
• Experience in the customs and international trade industry, policy and procedure development, and systems/tool development.

WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON

Your proven experience in managing compliance programs within a global trade environment will be key assets to this role. In addition, your expertise in guiding the team and partners through governance compliance processes in a diverse global environment will be important in this role.

• Compliance Project Leadership and Facilitation: As Lead, you will facilitate project team meetings, road-mapping sessions, and gather feedback from stakeholders. In addition, you will be responsible for providing high-level updates using existing trade best practices, including tools such as Jira, advanced roadmaps, dashboards, and 1-pagers.

• Trade Compliance Consulting and Engagement: You will consult and engage with Geos and Territories on targeted new or evolving compliance developments or issues. In addition, you will assist with developing customs procedures to comply with import and export compliance regulations. In addition, you will help interpret new regulations and customs requirements to create impactful presentations for stakeholders and partners.

• Continuous Improvement and Stakeholder Engagement: You will provide support to the team in benchmarking documentation and capturing key learnings from global trade initiatives. The ability to maintain effective communication across teams, external stakeholders, and management to gain respect and buy-in for governance compliance strategies will be key to this position. You can expect to working as a team to strengthen the trade compliance network/community through various governance and risk activities (training, communications, etc.).

• Transition Management and Stakeholder Adoption: Driving the change management process by managing communication, training, and support for the adoption of changes across our stakeholders is of prime importance for your role. Responsibilities you will manage and execute include socialization and adoption of the compliance framework, procedures, and internal controls by key stakeholders.

NIKE, Inc. is a growth company that looks for team members to grow with it. Nike offers a generous total rewards package, casual work environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and an electric atmosphere for professional development. No matter the location, or the role, every Nike employee shares one galvanizing mission: To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

NIKE, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.