Global Trade Compliance Manager

At Atmus Filtration Technologies , our products help keep engines, equipment and industries running cleaner and more efficiently around the world. As our business continues to grow across EMEA, the way our goods move across borders matters more than ever.

Global Trade Compliance Manager based in Belgium to lead trade compliance for the EMEA region . You’ll be the go-to expert on customs, export controls, sanctions and trade regulations, making sure we move products efficiently and stay fully compliant in a fast-changing regulatory landscape. Working closely with supply chain, logistics, finance, legal and global trade colleagues, you’ll shape processes, guide the business through complex questions, and help turn compliance into a real competitive advantage.

If you enjoy combining regulatory depth with practical business partnering, and want a role with genuine regional scope and visibility, we’d love to hear from you.

Level: Manager (People Leadership / Includes 3PL)

Summary: Leads Trade Compliance for an assigned region. Implements enterprise requirements, owns regional procedures and regulatory-change execution, oversees brokers and site compliance activity, resolves escalations and reports performance and risk to global leadership. The role is scalable by region and may carry direct operational responsibility where local staffing is limited. This role includes trade optimization and CTPAT or AEO supply chain security responsibilities at the level defined below.

Key Responsibilities:

• Implement global policies through regional procedures, responsibility matrices, work instructions, training and system requirements.
• Maintain a current register of applicable customs, import, export-control, sanctions, licensing, recordkeeping and product-related trade requirements.
• Oversee regional classification, valuation, origin, preference, broker, entry or declaration review and post-entry correction processes.
• For Europe and the United Kingdom, coordinate applicable Union Customs Code or UK Customs processes, customs warehousing, inward or outward processing, preference, AEO and related import or export controls.
• Assess new products, suppliers, customers, routes, entities and countries before launch and route complex import or export issues to the Director of Global Trade.
• Manage regional customs brokers, forwarders and consultants against approved instructions, service levels, error targets and corrective actions.
• Conduct or direct transaction testing, self-assessments, risk reviews and site audits; document root causes and remediation.
• Coordinate government inquiries, audits, permits, authorizations, disclosures and post-entry actions with global leaders and Legal.
• Maintain regional dashboards for duties, savings, errors, holds, licenses, overdue actions, records and regulatory implementation.
• Ensure trained backup coverage, business continuity and timely escalation for critical regional processes.
• Deliver regional optimization projects with the global program manager and Finance. Identify unused FTA benefits, recovery opportunities and eligible special procedures; validate local feasibility and measure realized benefits after implementation.
• Serve as the accountable regional coordinator for assigned CTPAT, AEO and comparable authorizations. Maintain entity scope, contacts, submissions, assessment schedules and evidence of continued eligibility.
• Lead regional supplier and site security assessments, authority validations, incident escalation and corrective-action closure with Corporate Security, Logistics, Procurement, IT and HR. Confirm operating controls are performed and evidenced by the responsible function.
• Embed trade requirements in new supplier, product, market and system launches; implement global automation standards and verify data quality and control effectiveness locally.

Decision Authority

• Hold regional shipments, declarations, transactions or technology transfers when applicable requirements are not met.
• Issue regional procedures and routine broker instructions consistent with approved global policy.
• Approve routine corrections and local filings within delegated authority and elevate material issues.
• Require site and business functions to correct inaccurate data or provide supporting records.
• Recommend broker changes, resource adjustments, disclosures, rulings and control improvements.
• May not override global policy, Legal guidance or license conditions
• Require regional evidence and remediation; coordinate authorized submissions and elevate threatened suspension or loss of program status.

Key Relationships

• Director Global Trade: technical standards, escalation, regulatory change, spec