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Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems, and predictive digital monitoring technologies.\nWe have a global network of more than 200 sites in over 50 countries and employ more than 6,000 people worldwide. We partner with our customers to help them keep their operations safe, reduce downtime, improve efficiency, and meet the latest environmental standards.\nJohn Crane is part of Smiths Group. For over 170 years, Smiths has been pioneering progress by engineering for a better future. We serve millions of people every year, helping to create a safer, more efficient, productive, and better-connected world across four global markets: energy, security & defence, space & aerospace, and general industrial. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, Smiths employs approximately 16,000 colleagues in over 50 countries.\n Execute and manage import/export trade compliance activities across all John Crane sites in Mexico, ensuring full adherence to Mexican customs regulations while supporting John Crane’s global duty mitigation progamme and operational efficiency.\nStrategy and Governance\nHelp coordinate cross functional execution in Mexico to drive appropriately embedded and operationalized changes, as needed, to John Crane’s trade compliance function in Mexico.\nHelp align day to day operational processes in Mexico with corporate governance policies, controls, and ethics standards from Smiths Group.\nActively monitor, through effective processes, changes in the geopolitical climate impacting Mexico in order to help advise senior leadership on regulatory risks and mitigation strategies.\nCompliance Operations\nServe as a subject matter expert providing clear compliance advice on international trade activity matters relating to Mexico.\nBe accountable for the controls, operational processes and frameworks required to ensure John Crane meets its export control and sanctions, customs, and antiboycott compliance obligations, as applicable, in Mexico and ensure such items are firmly embedded within our Mexico operations. Actively monitor regulatory changes to ensure any warranted changes to the same are made as appropriate / required.\nManage and assist with, as required, John Crane’s global trade compliance activities, including product classifications, export licensing, import permitting and customs clearing, restricted party screening, recordkeeping, and self-assessments, done by the business units in Mexico, and track completion of corrective measures, if any.\nHelp conduct audits, investigations and remediation activities in Mexico to support Internal Audit and Ethics & Compliance.\nMonitor, measure and report on John Crane business units’ adherence to applicable laws, regulations and procedures in the conduct of trade activity in Mexico.\nTariff Mitigation\nHelp devise strategy and coordinate cross functional teams to reduce current cost and risk exposure to US and other applicable tariffs in Mexico.\nHelp deliver tariff modelling, forecasting and scenario planning.\nHelp drive free trade zone and free trade agreement (including USMCA) utilisation and duty recovery initiatives.\nDigital and Process Transformation\nHelp implement the automation of classification, transaction screening and documentation workflows.\nHelp implement enhanced governance for classification (export and import) and country of origin assignment and traceability in Mexico.\nRisk Management and Assurance\nAssess and continuously monitor our trade compliance risk profile in Mexico and ensure its controls, processes, and frameworks to mitigate the risks are effective and fit for purpose.\nEnsure audit readiness and regulatory adherence.\nHelp investigate potential compliance failures relating to Mexico, as applicable, and implement corrective actions as appropriate/required.\nStakeholder Engagement and Capability Building\nDirectly report to John Crane’s Senior Regional Trade Compliance Manager, Americas, and work with a global network of other trade compliance managers and specialists.\nHelp drive training, upskilling capability, tools and standardized ways of working in Mexico.\nPartner with Finance, Legal, Data, Commercial, Engineering, Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, and, as needed, external advisors.\nA Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) required.\nMust be able to speak, read and write fluently in English and Spanish.\nAdditional language skills beneficial.\nExperience Required\nSignificant experience with trade compliance responsibilities with a company with Mexican operations.\nSignificant experience in managing international trade issues relating to Mexico within a complex global supply chain environment.\nDeep operational experience with Mexican customs processes (including under Ley Aduanera and the IMMEX program).\nExperience with Customs broker management.\nExperience in developing and implementing compliance policies, processes and procedures.\nExperience with ERP systems. Experience with SAP ERP and SAP GTS and also QAD ERP, beneficial. Experience with other TCM systems, also beneficial.\nExperience with export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti-bribery/anti-corruption and other trade laws, regulations and requirements, as applicable, administered by Mexico.\nExperience with export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti-bribery/anti-corruption, and other trade laws, regulations and requirements applicable in Mexico that are administered by jurisdictions outside of Mexico (e.g., the USMCA).\nExperience helping conduct compliance audits and drafting reports.\nExperience assisting with internal investigations of potential non-compliance.\nTrack record of effective contribution to strategic programmes.\nExpertise in tariff management,\nExperience explaining complex regulations to non-expert stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner and helping turn the requirements into business actions.\nSolid financial and analytical capability.\nWith colleagues stretching across the globe, we are proud of our diversity. To foster inclusivity, we run employee resource groups (ERGs) to provide a safe space for employees to connect and support each other. Our cross-business ERGs include Veterans, Pride Network, Black Employee Network, Women@Work Network, and Neurodiversity.\nAcross our company, we recognize excellence, culminating in the Smiths Excellence Awards, our annual celebration of the most extraordinary activities, people, and projects that best showcase our strengths and help drive our business forward. We announce these on our annual Smiths Day, a global celebration of Smiths around our network.\nJoin us for a great career with competitive compensation and benefits, while helping engineer a better future.\nAccording our mission, vision and Global Policies: Under no circumstances shall Staff be charged any fee or other costs in relation to their recruitment to work at Smiths, whether directly or indirectly. Any recruitment fees shall be paid by Smiths.\nSmiths will not employ anyone below the age of 18. Smiths will take reasonable steps to satisfy itself of the member of Staff’s age before that person starts work at Smiths. 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