Trade Compliance Associate

About Lubrizol  
The Lubrizol Corporation, a Berkshire Hathaway company, is a specialty chemical company whose science delivers sustainable solutions to advance mobility, improve wellbeing and enhance modern life. Founded in 1928, Lubrizol owns and operates more than 100 manufacturing facilities, sales, and technical offices around the world and has about 8,000 employees. For more information, visit www.Lubrizol.com.

We value diversity in professional backgrounds and life experiences. By enabling a consistent, unbiased, and transparent recruitment process, Lubrizol seeks to create a positive experience for candidates so we can get to know them at their best. We recognize unique work and life situations and offer flexibility, ensuring our employees feel engaged and fulfilled in every aspect of life.   

Summary

The Trade Compliance Associate position is accountable for maintaining our right to operate globally by ensuring compliance with trade regulations and deploying trade programs that maintain or improve our competitive advantage. This role works closely with other team members and regional contacts in Information Technology and Supply Chain. 

Essential Job Functions  

• Assisting in the annual free trade campaign activities including soliciting, auditing, and processing long term vendor declarations (LTVDs)
• Collect and prepare reports needed for duty payment, month end closing, and other periodic reporting and populate tracking documents where needed.
• Review and processing invoices for payment of duties, broker fees, and other trade related payments.
• Manage administrative tasks related to existing and new customs procedures (duty drawback, bonded warehouses, duty suspension, Intrastat reporting, etc.)
• Follow existing procedures to release order holds in SAP for low complexity import or export controls.
• Review customers and vendors flagged for a potential denied party screening hits and release or escalate as necessary.
• Evaluate the use and sourcing of conflict minerals. Provide certification letters to customers as requested.

Experience and Skills

• Experience using SAP Global Trade Services (GTS)
• Basic understanding of import and export processes and critical data elements
• Willingness and ability to learn audit processes, systems used, and compliance requirements.
• Broad knowledge of global free trade regulations
• Moderate knowledge of excel and basic understanding of ERP systems including basic knowledge of system controls and export regulations.
• Strong organizations skills, attention to detail and time management
• Bachelor's degree in business, Logistics/Supply Chain, or other related fields or equivalent experience
• Fluent in english

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It’s an exciting time to be part of Lubrizol. Lubrizol is not staying put. We are continually learning and evolving. Our passion delivers our success — not only for Lubrizol but for those who count on us every day: our employees, customers and communities. 

We work with a relentless commitment to operate safely and responsibly, keeping safety, sustainability, ethics, and compliance at the forefront of everything we do. The well-being of our employees, customers and communities is paramount to our culture and in the way we approach our work.

As a diverse, global team, we work together to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges. We impact everyday lives through science only Lubrizol can deliver, and we never stop pushing to do it better.

One of the founding principles of The Lubrizol Corporation more than 90 years ago was treating every employee with dignity and respect. That same commitment is only stronger today. 

More than that, we are committed to providing an environment where every employee can be the best they can be, no matter their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic.