Import/Export Specialist

John Crane; México; Presencial; MXN 850.000 - 1.300.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

John Crane is seeking a dedicated Trade Compliance professional to execute and manage import/export activities across its sites in Mexico, aligning with Smiths Group governance and reducing regulatory risk.

You will lead cross-functional efforts, monitor changes in regulations, and implement robust controls for customs, licensing and screening within a global supply chain context.

Formación

• Significant trade compliance experience within a company with Mexican operations.
• Experience managing international trade in a complex global supply chain.
• Deep knowledge of Mexican customs processes (Ley Aduanera and IMMEX).
• ERP experience, especially SAP ERP and SAP GTS; QAD experience is beneficial.
• Experience with export/import controls and anti-bribery/anti-corruption rules in MX.
• Ability to explain complex regulations to non-experts and translate them into actions.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate cross-functional execution in Mexico to operationalize changes in trade compliance.
• Align day-to-day processes in Mexico with governance policies and ethics standards.
• Provide clear compliance advice on international trade activities related to Mexico.
• Manage controls and processes to meet export control, sanctions, customs and antiboycott obligations in Mexico.
• Oversee product classifications, licensing, permitting, customs, screening, recordkeeping, and self-assessments for Mexico.
• Help devise strategy to reduce cost and risk from tariffs in Mexico.
• Drive free trade zone and USMCA utilization and duty recovery.
• Support automation of classification, screening, and documentation workflows.
• Ensure audit readiness and regulatory adherence.
• Investigate potential compliance failures and implement corrective actions.
• Collaborate with Senior Regional Trade Compliance Manager and global network.

Conocimientos

Trade compliance

Export controls

Tariff management

English fluency

Spanish fluency

Herramientas

SAP ERP

SAP GTS

QAD ERP

TCM systems

Descripción del empleo

Founded in 1917, John Crane is a global leader in the design, manufacturing, and engineering of mission critical flow control solutions for increased efficiency, emission reductions and energy transformation. Our products include mechanical seals and systems, couplings, bearings, filtration systems and predictive digital monitoring technologies. John Crane customer service is accessed through a global network of more than 200 global sites in over 50 countries employing more than 6,000 employees worldwide. We partner with our customers and help them meet the latest environmental standards and keep their operations safe and controlled.

John Crane is part of Smiths Group, For 175 years, Smiths has been improving our world through smarter engineering. Our technology benefits millions of people every day – making travel safer, supporting sustainable energy transition, efficiently heating, cooling our homes, and helping our world stay connected.

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Job Description

Execute and manage import/export trade compliance activities across all John Crane sites in Mexico, ensuring full adherence to Mexican customs regulations while supporting John Crane’s global duty mitigation progamme and operational efficiency.

Duties & Responsibilities (not limited to)

Strategy and Governance

• Help coordinate cross functional execution in Mexico to drive appropriately embedded and operationalized changes, as needed, to John Crane’s trade compliance function in Mexico.
• Help align day to day operational processes in Mexico with corporate governance policies, controls, and ethics standards from Smiths Group.

Compliance Operations

• Serve as a subject matter expert providing clear compliance advice on international trade activity matters relating to Mexico.
• Be accountable for the controls, operational processes and frameworks required to ensure John Crane meets its export control and sanctions, customs, and antiboycott compliance obligations, as applicable, in Mexico and ensure such items are firmly embedded within our Mexico operations. Actively monitor regulatory changes to ensure any warranted changes to the same are made as appropriate / required.
• Manage and assist with, as required, John Crane’s global trade compliance activities, including product classifications, export licensing, import permitting and customs clearing, restricted party screening, recordkeeping, and self‑assessments, done by the business units in Mexico, and track completion of corrective measures, if any.
• Help devise strategy and coordinate cross functional teams to reduce current cost and risk exposure to US and other applicable tariffs in Mexico.
• Help drive free trade zone and free trade agreement (including USMCA) utilisation and duty recovery initiatives.

Digital and Process Transformation

• Help implement the automation of classification, transaction screening and documentation workflows.

Risk Management and Assurance

• Ensure audit readiness and regulatory adherence.
• Help investigate potential compliance failures relating to Mexico, as applicable, and implement corrective actions as appropriate/required.

Stakeholder Engagement and Capability Building

• Directly report to John Crane’s Senior Regional Trade Compliance Manager, Americas, and work with a global network of other trade compliance managers and specialists.

The Individual

• Must be able to speak, read and write fluently in English and Spanish.
• Additional language skills beneficial.

• Significant experience with trade compliance responsibilities with a company with Mexican operations.
• Significant experience in managing international trade issues relating to Mexico within a complex global supply chain environment.
• Deep operational experience with Mexican customs processes (including under Ley Aduanera and the IMMEX program).
• Experience with Customs broker management.
• Experience in developing and implementing compliance policies, processes and procedures.
• Experience with ERP systems. Experience with SAP ERP and SAP GTS and also QAD ERP, beneficial. Experience with other TCM systems, also beneficial.
• Experience with export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti‑bribery/anti‑corruption and other trade laws, regulations and requirements, as applicable, administered by Mexico.
• Experience with export and import controls, economic sanctions, anti‑bribery/anti‑corruption, and other trade laws, regulations and requirements applicable in Mexico that are administered by jurisdictions outside of Mexico (e.g., the USMCA).
• Experience helping conduct compliance audits and drafting reports.
• Experience assisting with internal investigations of potential non‑compliance.
• Track record of effective contribution to strategic programmes.
• Expertise in tariff management,
• Experience explaining complex regulations to non‑expert stakeholders in a clear and understandable manner and helping turn the requirements into business actions.
• Solid financial and analytical capability.

Diversity Clause

We believe that different perspectives and backgrounds are what make a company flourish. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, economic status, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristics. We are proud to be an inclusive company with values grounded in equality and ethics, where we celebrate, support, and embrace diversity.

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