Global Trade Screening Lead

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Global Trade Screening Lead

Lead a globally connected screening organization that helps Philips navigate an increasingly complex international trade environment while enabling business continuity and protecting patient care.

Your role:

• Lead Philips’ Global Trade Screening Operations, ensuring sanctions and export control screening activities are executed consistently, accurately, and efficiently across the organization.
• Manage a specialized team responsible for complex, high-risk screening cases, balancing compliance excellence with business continuity and customer experience.
• Drive operational excellence in global screening processes, helping Philips maintain the highest standards of compliance while supporting timely product movement and patient access to healthcare solutions.
• Provide global coordination and functional leadership to regional screening teams, creating alignment in decision-making, escalation processes, and compliance practices across regions.
• • Oversee the effectiveness of screening tools and controls, including SAP GTS and other trade compliance technologies that support global trade operations.
• • Partner with Product Development, Supply Chain, Commercial teams, Legal, and Trade Compliance partners to ensure export control classifications and screening master data remain accurate and reliable.
• Lead investigations of complex trade compliance cases, identifying root causes, determining appropriate actions, and supporting licensing activities where required.
• Establish strong governance by ensuring screening decisions are supported by clear documentation, audit-ready records, and sound regulatory rationale.
• Champion continuous improvement initiatives that enhance screening quality, data accuracy, process efficiency, and compliance effectiveness.
• Build organizational capability through practical guidance, coaching, and training that empowers teams across Philips to understand screening requirements and escalation pathways.

You're the right fit if:

1. Experience

• Significant experience in Global Trade Compliance, Sanctions Screening, Export Controls, Customs Compliance, or a related field.

• Experience leading, coaching, or coordinating teams, including within virtual, global, or matrix organizations.

• Proven track record managing complex trade compliance cases, investigations, and operational decision-making.

• Experience driving process improvements and operational excellence initiatives within compliance or supply chain environments.

2. Skills

• Strong knowledge of sanctions regulations, embargoes, export controls, export licensing, and denied party screening requirements.

• Understanding of export control classifications, including ECCN, SGI, and related trade compliance frameworks.

• Experience working with SAP GTS or similar trade screening and compliance systems.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess complex situations and make sound decisions.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills across functions, cultures, and geographies.

• Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining accurate documentation and audit trails.

• Continuous improvement mindset with the ability to identify and implement practical solutions.

3. Education

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in International Trade, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Law, Compliance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Compensation & Benefits

Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The base salary range for this role is € 78,187.00 –€  130,312.00. We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations. This role is eligible for 3% incentive bonus, with your rewards linked to KPIs/company results. We’ll share the full approach with you during the interview process, so you can make a clear, informed decision.

Benefits include:

• Health and well-being programs: to support you mentally and physically, allowing you to stay energized and be your best at work and beyond;
• Career growth: access to a wide range of tools and resources to further your career, including a personal development budget, training and coaching;
• Annual leave: 25 days with the option of purchasing up to 20 extra days per year;
• Financial incentive: individual bonus based on personal performance and/or Philips' annual results;
• Additional benefits: solid company pension scheme, attractive collective health insurance package and opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with a discount.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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