Trade Compliance Process & Data Expert

The company seeks a Trade Compliance Process & Data Expert in Villars-sur-Glane, Switzerland, to optimize global trade compliance processes, manage data quality, and support stakeholders in maintaining regulatory adherence.

The Group Product & Trade Compliance department focuses on preventing supply chain disruptions and protecting brand reputation by ensuring regulatory compliance. This position supports the Data & Operations Excellence team by managing strategies and solutions that enhance compliance effectiveness across the organization. The role serves as a co-warrant for compliance control, overseeing key performance indicators, maintaining data quality, and identifying areas for process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Formalize and optimize global trade compliance procedures, including import, export, special procedures, duties, and free trade agreements, along with associated data management guidelines.
• Provide consulting and training to internal stakeholders on trade compliance data and processes, empowering them with system-driven solutions.
• Analyze support requests for trade compliance implementation, framing enhancements to deliver efficient solutions for system and data under process ownership.
• Monitor trade compliance key performance indicators and act as a data quality control tower, performing data stewardship for data contributed by stakeholders under data governance.
• Conduct root cause analysis and lead continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Support projects requiring expertise in trade compliance data management and processes.

Requirements

• Minimum of three years of experience in an international setting within trade compliance.
• Familiarity with supply chain and trade regulatory domains, including HS commodity codes, regulatory documentation, policy interpretation, and international logistics operational flows.
• Highly meticulous and detail-oriented.
• Comfortable with digital and IT systems logic and software user interfaces, with a good understanding of SAP and SAP GTS being advantageous.
• Proficient in Excel, including data manipulation, exports, filters, XLOOKUP, and pivot tables.
• Possesses a consultative, cooperative, and customer-focused approach to interactions.
• Demonstrates a proactive mindset, challenging the status quo and supporting continuous, pragmatic improvement initiatives.
• Fluent in French and fully proficient in English to interact daily with multicultural stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in business analysis, process management, or project management is advantageous.
• A good understanding of SAP and SAP GTS is a plus.
• Speaking Italian and/or German is a serious plus.

About the company

Richemont stands as a global leader in the luxury sector, featuring various houses dedicated to jewelry, watches, and high-end accessories. Each house embodies a tradition of style, quality, and craftsmanship, with the company committed to preserving the unique heritage and identity of each. Richemont focuses on innovating and designing new products aligned with the values of its houses through a process of permanent creativity.

• Richemont is a global leader in the luxury sector, with houses specializing in jewelry, watches, and high-end accessories.
• Each house embodies a tradition of style, quality, and craftsmanship, with the company preserving unique heritage and identity.
• The company is committed to innovating and designing new products aligned with house values through permanent creativity.