Job Description

Why You'll Love Cisco: We change the World, you will become passionate about your employer and the brand you represent. Everything is converging on the Internet, making networked connections more significant than ever before in our lives. Our employees' groundbreaking ideas impact everything. Here, that means we take creative ideas from the drawing board to dynamic solutions that have real world impact. You'll collaborate with Cisco leaders, partner with mentors, and develop incredible relationships with colleagues who share your interest in connecting with the unconnected. You'll be part of a team that cares about its customers, enjoys having fun, and you will take part in changing the lives of those in our local communities. Come prepared to be encouraged and inspired. What You'll Do As a highly experienced Customs and Trade professional, you will be responsible for shaping, implementing, and measuring the health associated to elements of Cisco's Global Trade Compliance Program. This job is accountable for ensuring trade compliance across various supply chain and logistics routes, within the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions (EMEA). You'll have the opportunity to be visible, interacting with senior management and engaging in matrix-management projects, making you a key influencer and partner helping develop and support Cisco's evolving Global Trade Compliance Program. * Stay abreast of and partner with our corporate functions on developments concerning trade laws, regulations, and policies and subsequently, plan and implement mitigation and compliance plans throughout Cisco's operational groups. * Support the development of Trade Compliance import policies related to key importing processes and procedures, e.g., Classification, Country of Origin, Valuation and Recordkeeping * Lead, develop and participate in global trade compliance audits and assessments. * Within your responsible region, identify and advise on potential trade compliance issues - using independent judgement raise trade compliance matters to senior leadership and key decision-making organizations for resolution. * Establish and maintain relationships with global cross-functional external logistics partners and the product compliance organization to help achieve trade compliance and realize efficiencies within Cisco's supply chains. Who You'll Work With You will be joining Cisco's Global Tax and Customs Team (GTC), as a leader within the EMEA Regional Customs team. Within this group you'll be working with some of Cisco's largest logistics partners to enable and ensure trade compliance execution through our various supply chains. You'll be working cross-functionally with various trade corporate teams, supply chain groups, and extended partners, such as Product Compliance, to implement Cisco's Global Trade Program (imports & exports). We're a global group of Global Tax and Customs professionals with diverse backgrounds and passions - we embrace new ways of thinking, while helping Cisco ensure our products are delivered stays in sync with our customers' needs in mind. Who You Are The successful candidate will bring excellent technical foresight in trade compliance applied to supply chain operations; strong customer focus; proven track record for enabling trade-related business solutions; and solid integrity and ethics. At a minimum, we expect you to have a BA/BS, 8 years' experience delivering dynamic solutions within a supply chain, and/or logistics role, as well as strong knowledge and demonstrated skills and experiences in all areas of Import/Customs compliance. Why Cisco #WeAreCisco, where each person is unique, but we bring our talents to work as a team and make a difference powering an inclusive future for all. We embrace digital, and help our customers implement change in their digital businesses. Some may think we're "old" (36 years strong) and only about hardware, but we're also a software company. And a security company. We even invented an intuitive network that adapts, predicts, learns and protects. No other company can do what we do - you can't put us in a box! But "Digital Transformation" is an empty buzz phrase without a culture that allows for innovation, creativity, and yes, even failure (if you learn from it.) Day to day, we focus on the give and take. We give our best, give our egos a break, and give of ourselves (because giving back is built into our DNA.) We take accountability, bold steps, and take difference to heart. Because without diversity of thought and a dedication to equality for all, there is no moving forward. So, you have colorful hair? Don't care. Tattoos? Show off your ink. Like polka dots? That's cool. Pop culture geek? Many of us are. Passion for technology and world changing? 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