Head of UK Global Trade and Customs

2 weeks ago

Washington, United States Metrea Management LLC Full time
Job DescriptionJob Description

Company Overview

Metrea is a defense company dedicated to translating commercial innovation into solutions for the hardest problems in national security. With deep mission expertise, Metrea focuses on delivering effects as-a-service across a spectrum of domains including Air, Space, Electromagnetic & Cyber, and Simulation. Metrea Management provides central services to 12 global business units via Operations, Solutions, Strategy, Legal, and Finance teams.

Position Summary

Reporting directly to the Vice President, Head of Global Trade & Customs (GTC), within the Legal, Contracts, and Compliance (LCC) team, you will be responsible for Metrea’s global trade export, import, and customs operations in the United Kingdom with expansion globally as the business requires.

You will directly support the international growth objectives of Metrea and its assigned Business Groups and Business Units, with a particular focus on the Metrea Mission Defense (MMD) and Metrea Aerial Effects (MAFX) Business Units. These responsibilities will entail establishing, implementing, and overseeing compliance-related activities, submitting and/or advising on export authorizations (UK and US, among others), and collaborating with businesses for compliant execution of business requirements. In addition, you will be responsible for developing a standardized approach to Metrea’s export, import and customs activities in the United Kingdom in collaboration with Metrea GTC and business leads.

You will plan, organize, and implement day-to-day export and import transactions to achieve targeted results in a fast-paced and challenging environment. You must be a pragmatic team player who is willing to learn and adapt to the company’s business needs whilst looking for solutions to export problems.

Reasonable Accommodations Statement

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty listed below satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Key Responsibilities

  • Leveraging knowledge of UK Trade Regulations, U.S. ITAR/EAR Regulations, and UK customs requirements to achieve business goals and objectives
  • Obtaining, coordinating, and managing UK licenses for UK-based operations
  • Reviewing, coordinating, and managing UK, U.S., and EU export authorizations for UK businesses
  • Working collaboratively and effectively with the Metrea GTC team, Metrea LCC team, and business stakeholders to drive solutions
  • Effectively building partnerships with internal customers
  • Serving as a point-of-contact for export compliance advice, resources, education, and coordination for UK-based operations
  • In collaboration with the Metrea GTC team, develop and streamline UK export-related processes and procedures to meet the pace of business
  • Identify and resolve export issues, risk areas, and implications of emerging export issues
  • Review, coordinate, and manage UK export classifications
  • Ensure compliance with global trade export, import, customs, and record-keeping requirements
  • Support export awareness training and specialized functional training
  • Undertake internal assessments to understand risks and drive continuous improvement
  • Support investigations into potential non-compliance

Our ideal candidate for this role:

  • 5+ years of UK and US export and import law experience, including the regulations administered by the Export Control Joint Unit, the International Traffic in Arms Regulations, and the Export Administration Regulations
  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Team Player mentality
  • Pragmatic
  • Sound judgment and attention to detail
  • Ability to execute both strategically and operationally
  • Proficiency with GTC products and tools
  • Strong interpersonal, communication, and writing skills
  • Ability to learn quickly, work both independently and as part of a team
  • Ability to identify, prioritize, and manage multiple complex tasks
  • Passion for development with a drive to be constantly learning and furthering your professional knowledge
  • Flexibility and willingness to grow in an expanding business
  • Experience utilizing UK SPIRE platform for management of Export control applications and for security grading

Desired Qualifications:

  • Experience in the classification of strategic military & dual-use goods
  • Experience with EU and other, non-UK global trade laws and regulations
  • Experience with the application of US and UK sanctions regulations
  • Previous experience in building a team
  • Master level Degree in relevant subject

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

  • Role: Remote, with the ability to work from the London, Worcester, or Lincoln offices as the business requires. Some infrequent travel to the other Metrea business locations will be necessary as part of the role.
  • Full-time, position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs. Exempt Employees must have the ability to be on-call and available, as business needs require.

Travel

Travel requirements are up to 15%

What we offer

We provide a number of company benefits including:

  1. Private Health Insurance.
  2. Life Insurance.
  3. A generous leave allowance (25 days plus public holidays off).
  4. Company Pension
  5. Company Bonus Scheme
  6. Flexible working arrangements.
  7. Bicycle Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Additional Eligibility Qualifications

  • Must be able to accomplish any and all duties with autonomy
  • Must have good command of the English language, oral and written
  • Must be able to undergo UK government security vetting as a UK National
  • Must be able to sign the Official Secrets Act


Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

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