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Trade Compliance Analyst
IT, Legal
Shanghai, China
Posted on Nov 3, 2026
The Impact You'll Make
This role is responsible for supporting trade compliance activities with a primary focus on Preferential Origin. This role ensures that products meet applicable origin requirements to support preferential duty treatment, maintain compliance with regulatory standards, and enable duty savings opportunities. The position requires strong expertise in rules of origin analysis and supporting documentation.
This role works closely with procurement, engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders to validate origin qualification outcomes. This role acts as a subject matter expert in rules of origin, enabling compliant and defensible Preferential Origin qualification decisions across the organization.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Lead Preferential Origin qualification activities, ensuring alignment with regulatory requirements and internal compliance standards, ensuring all required documentation is properly collected, validated, and retained to support full regulatory compliance. Qualification agreements could be anywhere globally, including USMCA, EU/UK-based agreements, MERCOSUR, etc.
- Analyze Bills of Materials (BOMs) and supporting data to determine origin qualification
- Coordinate the collection and validation of supplier origin documentation (LTVDs), ensuring integrity, completeness, and audit readiness
- Create and provide necessary preferential origin certificate as requested by customers
- Assess completeness and accuracy of supplier declarations to ensure compliance with PO requirements and mitigate risk exposure
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on rules of origin, qualification outcomes, and potential compliance risks
- Collaborate cross-functionally with procurement, engineering, and suppliers to strengthen origin data quality
- Identify gaps or risks in origin data
- Contribute to duty optimization strategies by ensuring accurate origin qualification and effective use of free trade agreements
- Maintain complete and audit-ready records of origin documentation in accordance with applicable regulations and internal policies
- Support customs-related activities by ensuring documentation readiness
What We're Looking For
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, International Trade, Business, Law, or related field
- 3–5 years of experience in trade compliance, customs brokerage, or customs
- Experience in manufacturing or global supply chains preferred
- Strong knowledge of customs regulations, HS classification, and origin rules
- Familiarity with export control regimes (e.g. EAR, ITAR, EU Dual-Use)
- Experience with ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and customs management tools
- Strong analytical and documentation skills
What You'll Get from Us
- We promote from within and support your learning with mentoring, training, and access to global opportunities.
- You’ll have flexibility, autonomy, and support to do your best work while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Your well-being matters to us.
- We strive to create an inclusive work environment where people of all backgrounds are respected, and valued for who they are.
- You’ll receive benefits like 13th salary, annual bonus, paid vacation, pension plans, personal insurance, and more. These vary by country and contract, but they’re worth asking about—we think they’re pretty great.
Ready to Make a Difference?
If this role excites you, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to start the conversation and learn more about where your career can go with us.
Our Commitment to Transparency
Salary ranges listed reflect only primary location and currency. For local salary ranges and specific benefits in your preferred hiring location, please ask your Talent Acquisition representative for more information.
The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Any benefits listed do not promise or guarantee any particular benefit or specific action. They may depend on country or contract specifics and are subject to change at any time without prior notice.
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