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Vantor is a spatial intelligence company that helps decision makers navigate current and future scenarios.

Position: Compliance Operations Lead, Third-Party Due Diligence (Westminster, CO)

Applicants must be a U.S. Person (U.S. citizen, permanent resident, asylee, or refugee) as required by export control regulations.

• Lead day‑to‑day operations for Vantor’s third‑party due diligence and screening program, including risk‑based reviews of customers, suppliers, agents, resellers, consultants, channel partners, and other business intermediaries.
• Conduct sanctions, restricted‑party, denied‑party, adverse media, ownership, and reputational‑risk screening; evaluate red flags, document findings, recommend mitigation, and elevate issues for cross‑functional review.
• Analyze public records, screening results, questionnaires, contracts, ownership information, business justifications, and other documentation to assess anti‑corruption, sanctions, export control, human rights, and reputational risk.
• Support onboarding, renewal, and ongoing monitoring of third parties, including risk reclassification, periodic reviews, and event‑driven reviews based on changes in ownership, geography, sanctions status, or business activity.
• Complement the company’s Third‑Party Risk Management program by focusing on sanctions, restricted‑party, anti‑corruption, export control, reputational, and regulatory compliance risks.
• Partner with Contracts, Security, Procurement, Sales, and business teams to gather information, resolve diligence questions, and support timely, well‑documented business decisions.
• Prepare due diligence summaries, risk assessments, metrics, reports, and stakeholder briefings that clearly communicate findings, recommendations, mitigation steps, and open issues.
• Develop, maintain, and continuously improve due diligence workflows, templates, screening criteria, escalation protocols, playbooks, tools, and records to promote consistency, efficiency, and audit readiness.
• Support compliance review and clearing of business activity in SAP and related systems, including customer, reseller, supplier, order, travel, and visitor‑access reviews where sanctions, export control, restricted‑party, or high‑risk country concerns may be present.
• Review inbound visitor, foreign‑person access, and outbound travel requests in coordination with cross‑functional stakeholders to identify and resolve potential sanctions, export control, facility‑access, or country‑risk concerns.
• Assist with internal audits, monitoring, testing, and remediation activities across compliance programs, including third‑party diligence, sanctions/restricted‑party screening, anti‑corruption controls, and related records.
• Create compliance operations dashboards, metrics, reporting, and BI‑style insights to track screening volume, cycle times, risk trends, escalations, open items, and program effectiveness through automation, system configuration, and AI‑enabled tools where appropriate.

• U.S. Citizen.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
• 3+ years of experience supporting third‑party due diligence, restricted‑party screening, sanctions/export‑control compliance, anti‑corruption compliance, trade compliance, or related compliance operations, preferably in aerospace or other defense contractor industries.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate compliance risk, investigate and document red flags, prepare clear written risk assessments, and support escalation or mitigation recommendations for internal stakeholders.

• Experience in aerospace, defense, technology, manufacturing, logistics, telecommunications, financial technology, or another complex global compliance environment.
• Experience with screening, case‑management, ERP, or workflow tools such as SAP/SAP GTS, Salesforce, NavEx or similar platforms.
• Experience building or improving compliance dashboards, metrics, SOPs, playbooks, escalation protocols, training resources, or audit‑ready documentation.
• Strong analytical skills with ability to critically evaluate complex information and data.
• Demonstrated ability to use sound judgment and balance business needs.
• Detail‑oriented, accurate, thorough, and confidentiality‑aware.
• Ability to work effectively independently and collaboratively in fast‑paced environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and other relevant software/tools; experience developing dashboards, metrics, reports or BI‑style analysis to support compliance, risk, legal, ops, finance, procurement or sales teams.

Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that includes a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks such as student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement, and pet insurance.

Pay range (Colorado): $97,000 – $141,900 annually. Other states: range varies by location.

Vantor is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law. We also provide reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities in compliance with federal and state laws.