Trade Compliance Officer

**Trade Compliance Officer**

**Location**:Skelmersdale

Come join Alexander Dennis on our mission to save the planet. We are transforming public transport globally by designing, manufacturing, and servicing greener, more eco-friendly, buses and coaches.

Our people are our biggest asset, making us the hugely successful company we are. We are transforming how we work, offering team members more flexibility around how they live and work.

**What does that mean for you?**
- Generous salary package - we reward our people at the level they deserve
- A half day every Friday. Yes, a long weekend, every weekend. Giving you more time
- A 37-hour working week, with flexible working options, giving you that much needed
- Annual leave entitlement which increases with tenure
- Pension scheme to help you save for the future
- Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which offers practical, impartial
- Cycle to work scheme, discounted gym membership, and regular meditation sessions as your health and wellbeing is important to us.

Interested and want to find out more? Check out our YouTube channel here

**Your Dream Role**
- First and foremost, you will play a key role in ensuring that goods flow as smoothly as
- Supporting colleagues, customs brokers in daily trade compliance matters.
- You will take ownership for ensuring that trade compliance data is up to date and readily available; included in this is HTS Tariff Classification, County of Origin, Valuation of Exports, Imports and Inward Processing
- As a result of this, you will play a significant role supporting with internal (ISO) audits and external audits with HMRC, ensuring a strong compliance posture.
- Validate origin status on finished goods vehicles for export markets and inbound material
- We want you to bring new ideas and ways of working, helping to drive continuous improvement, on topic such as:

- Duty reduction or cost avoidance
- Maximising FTA
- Duty regimes and accurate classifications to maximise duty opportunities
- Standardising processes across the group, including Agile ways of working in possible across borders, from our suppliers to our production sites and our international customers.
- This is of course a non-exhaustive list and you may be asked to support with other activities as required.
- Opportunities like this don’t come along often - you will have exposure to a wide range of senior stakeholders and complex projects.

**What you will bring**:

- Driven, curious, and analytical, with some prior experience in a fast-paced trade compliance role.
- You have practical hands on experience with Customs matters, exposure to customs brokers, executing clearance, managing Special Regimes (inward processing), maximising Free Trade Agreements, tariff classification (GRI), Duty management and incoterms.
- Alongside your core technical abilities, you’ll have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, being able to influence and negotiate at all levels.
- Continuous improvement mindset, with strong project management skills to make change happen. A Lean Six Sigma or Project Management qualification would be great.
- Highly IT literate, with intermediate (ideally advanced) Excel skills, as well as exposure to business intelligence/ERP systems.
- Things can be hectic here. You will thrive on being busy and be an excellent time management skills.
- Generally, someone who enjoys our culture - approachable, with a strong work ethic and a desire to succeed.

**Next steps**:
If this sounds like you, and you are interested in coming ‘aboard’, then we would love to hear from you. Alongside uploading your CV, please share a short covering letter detailing why you’re interested and why we should hire you
- Recommend a Friend is applicable for this role.

As this role is unlikely to meet UKVI criteria for sponsorship under the skilled worker route, you will be required to have the right of work in the UK from the proposed commencement date.