• Lead our client’s trade compliance function across critical markets—unlocking market access, strengthening customer trust, and driving cost leadership to accelerate utility-scale solar growth. • Set the vision and operating model for an import-centric program in the United States, Canada, and Australia, with oversight across APAC and Oceania. • Own importer-of-record programs and oversee day-to-day customs execution (entries, ISF, reconciliation, records), engaging directly with customs authorities to ensure timely, accurate clearances. • Drive compliant savings through tariff engineering, preferential trade (e.g., USMCA/FTAs), Chapter 98, drawback, First Sale for Export, and Section 232 (steel) compliance; prepare recommendation memos and secure cross-functional adoption. • Monitor and interpret trade laws, sanctions, and trade-remedy actions; brief executives on impacts and options; coordinate company responses to regulatory inquiries and assessments in partnership with Legal. • Select, contract, and performance-manage customs brokers; direct outside counsel and consultants for rulings, interpretations, and specialized matters. • Deploy dashboards and controls that surface anomalies, support landed-cost decisions and provide executive-level reporting. • Lead the roadmap to achieve and sustain CTPAT Importer certification, coordinating physical, procedural, and IT-security criteria with internal teams and business partners. • Maintain a proportionate export-control framework (ECCN determinations, screening, licensing where required, and records) to support occasional exports.