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Specialist, Customs Compliance

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.

About the role:

CHANEL is looking for a customs compliance specialist to join our Customs & Regulatory Compliance team in Piscataway, NJ. You will play a leading role in facilitating the customs regulatory compliance needs across fashion, watches, fine jewelry, fragrance, and beauty divisions to ensure on time entry into the US market. This role interfaces with US legal, US F&B regulatory, Global fashion regulatory, and Global supply chain teams across fashion, watches & fine jewelry, fragrance & beauty and is a key partner for US merchandising, fashion account management, press and celebrity relations, and finance. Our ideal candidate will have 3 years of experience in the customs compliance space.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

Customs Compliance:

• Perform USHTS classification for fashion, WFJ, F&B, and non-sellable materials
• Review product compositions for compliance flags (i.e. FWS, APHIS, FDA)
• Review of imports for compliance with TSCA and Lacey Act compliance
• Manage import data requirements and cross functional coordination with relevant teams
• Keep up with changing import tariff regulations (i.e. 232, 301) and communicate the changes to the business
• Knowledge of Trade Remedy issues, such as ADD/CVD.
• Answer CF28/29 requests from CBP as required with support from legal counsel

Import/Export Processing:

• Support the cross-border coordination of Press and VIP movements
• Communicate import requirements to global and US teams to ensure wheels-up entry on time for all imports
• Investigate and answer broker questions across all inbound shipments
• Generate pro forma's as needed for export
• Review pre-alerts to ensure all required data is available before import, and escalate missing data as needed to Global teams
• Attend weekly customs broker meeting to address import issues
• Manage priority imports based on business-critical needs
• Ensure import KPI's are met, highlighting impacts to the business and solutions when issues arise.

Data Analysis:

• Data entry for import/export of high-jewelry loan items as needed
• Pull ACE reports to capture Chanel's duty monthly spend
• Ability to work across different reporting systems (i.e SAP, OrliWeb, MMS, My Tower)
• Comfort with PowerBI and Microsoft systems

You are energized by:

• Working in a highly collaborative environment
• Navigating complexity
• Collaborating with international teams
• Working independently through challenges
• Eye for detail and issue identification
• Connecting the dots between teams

What you will bring to the team:

• A degree in business administration, supply chain management, finance, compliance
• A licensed customs broker
• Experience importing and exporting consumer goods, strong preference for fashion and beauty products

Position Logistics:

• Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence in Piscataway, NJ.
• 3 years minimum experience in customs compliance (minimum- this is also valuable in the intro paragraph.)
• Education Requirements: Bachelors in supply chain, law, regulatory affairs

Compensation:

• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $61,400- 95,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay [may/will] be offered for this position. Other components [may/will] include bonus potential, benefits, and/or perks.

Benefits and Perks:

• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing and a Wellbeing fund
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
• 401K and other incentives

• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking

Additional Information:

Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in:

Diversity and Inclusion:

• At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy and dignity for all. We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients.
• We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support.

Chanel Community:

• CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities.
• Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations.

Sustainability:

• CHANEL Mission 1.5 is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
• Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives.

Arts and Culture:

• We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent. US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.

Fondation Chanel:

• Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL's mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny. Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.
• For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here

Career and Leadership Development:

• We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills.

*Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.