Trade Compliance Process & Data Expert

Richemont, one of the world leaders in the luxury sector, has various Houses specializing in jewelry, watches and high-end accessories. Each Maison proudly embodies a tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont strives to preserve the heritage and identity specific to each of them. At the same time, we are committed to innovating and designing new products in line with the values ​​of our Houses, through a process of permanent creativity.

CONTEXT:

The Group Product & Trade Compliance department (GPTC) aims to prevent the Group and its Maisons from supply chain disruption and brand reputation damage stemming from regulatory non-compliance.

Within the GPTC department, GPTC Data & Operations Excellence team is responsible to manage and orchestrate the best strategy & solutions to ensure Product & Trade Compliance effectiveness within the Group.

The mission consists in leveraging best-in-class processes, organization, technology & Data Management implementation and supporting efficient end-to-end operational solutions across Functions, Maisons, and Regions for Compliance effectiveness while decreasing the most possible constraints on impacted processes and organization.

In this context, the Trade Compliance Process & Data Expert leverages a thorough knowledge of our Corporate Trade Compliance Processes & Data to support and accompany our colleagues and partners. He ensures the appropriate Trade Compliance processes, their formalization and optimization on the diversity of global trade activities such import, export, special procedures, duties & FTA, etc. He ensures day-to-day the corresponding knowledge transfer through training or consulting to our internal stakeholders’ community to supports their operations across end-to-end value chain.

Co-warrant of our Group compliance effectiveness & control tower, the role is as well instrumental in relevant KPI monitoring, data quality stewardship and suboptimal process identification. When necessary, this will lead to conduct root-cause analyses and the corresponding continuous improvement initiatives for ensuring the robustness and performance of our processes on the long run. Ultimately, thanks to its expertise, the Trade Compliance Process & Data Expert is eventually acting as a Subject Matter Expert or Stream Lead into broader projects led under other’s entity leadership.

YOUR MISSION:

• Ensure process formalization and process optimization on global trade compliance scope (import, export, special procedures, duties & FTA, etc.). This mission includes the corresponding data management guidelines.

• Ensure support and consulting service for our internal stakeholders’ community on Trade compliance data and processes. Conduct training in processes and system-driven solutions in place to empower people.

• Analyse support demand for Trade Compliance implementation solution concerning system and data under our process ownership and conduct the appropriate enhancement or initiative framing to deliver effective & efficient solution.

• Monitor & Analyse Trade Compliance KPI and act as a Trade Compliance Data Quality Control Tower. Perform data stewardship for data contributed by our stakeholders (Maisons, Group, Region) that are under our responsibility and covered by our Data Governance.

• Conduct root cause analyze and continuous process improvements initiative

• Support in projects that require our PTC data management & process expertise.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT:

• At least 3 years’ experience in an international environment in the field of Trade Compliance

• Comfortable with Supply Chain & Trade regulatory domain area (HS Commodity Codes, Regulatory documentation & policies interpretation, International Logistics Operational flows,..)

• Experience in Business Analysis, Process Management or Project Management an advantage

• Meticulous and very detailed-oriented

• Comfortable with Digital & IT systems logic and software user interface (good understanding of SAP and SAP GTS a plus).

• General proficiency with Excel (data manipulation, export, filters, Xlookup, pivot table, etc.)

• A kind, consultative and cooperative way of interacting. A sense of Customer focus

• A proactive mindset in challenging the status quo and supporting continuous pragmatic improvement initiatives

• Fluent in French, Full Proficient in English due the daily interaction with multi-cultural stakeholders. Speaking Italian and/or German a serious plus

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