Americas Import Trade Compliance Expert (Hybrid)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 251,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an Americas Import Trade Compliance Specialist to guide import policy, compliance and duty optimization across the Americas. The role emphasizes interpretive guidance for US, Mexico and South America, risk mitigation and cross-functional collaboration with logistics, tax and legal teams.

In this individual-contributor position, you will lead data-driven analyses, support audits and inquiries, and develop training materials while driving process improvements and

Responsibilities

• Serve as an Americas subject matter expert for import policy, risk mitigation and duty optimization.
• Interpret and apply import requirements relating to recordkeeping, customs valuation, related-party transactions and assists, preferential and non-preferential origin, free trade agreements, tariff classification, marking, admissibility, and import documentation.
• Support country-of-origin determinations, supplier certifications, bills of material reviews, qualification analyses, and certificates of origin for preferential programs, including USMCA where applicable.
• Evaluate non-preferential origin determination and identify additional duty mitigating opportunities, consistent with applicable local rules.
• Review customs valuation methodologies, including transaction value, related-party considerations, assists, royalties, proceeds, transfer-pricing studies and impacts, alternative valuation methods, and required supporting records.
• Establish and maintain compliant import recordkeeping practices, retention requirements, audit trails, and supporting documentation across relevant Americas jurisdictions in conjunction with the Compliance Assurance team.
• Automate PGA reviews before importation to reduce delays.
• Manage broker governance activities, operating instructions, performance metrics, issue resolution, and escalation of recurring compliance gaps.
• Execute and improve U.S. duty drawback activities, including eligibility analysis, data validation, claim documentation, filing coordination, audit support, and recovery reporting.
• Monitor regulatory changes, new tariffs, trade remedies, preferential-program updates, and customs initiatives; assess business impact and communicate required actions.
• Prepare for and support customs audits, desk reviews, requests for information, questionnaires, and internal assessments.
• Lead Ticketing issues ensuring they are assigned to the correct employee.
• Develop import policies, work instructions, decision tools, training materials, and technical guidance for business stakeholders.
• Lead process-improvement, data-quality, analytics, and automation initiatives that strengthen controls and reduce manual effort.
• Collaborate with logistics, sourcing, tax, finance, legal, supply chain, business units, customs brokers, consultants, and government authorities as appropriate.
• Generate regular reports on compliance performance, duty recovery, audit readiness, open risks, process improvement, service levels, and communications on key regional developments.

Job description

Hewlett Packard Enterprise seeks an Americas Import Trade Compliance Specialist to guide import policy, compliance and duty optimization across the Americas. The role emphasizes interpretive guidance for US, Mexico and South America, risk mitigation and cross-functional collaboration with logistics, tax and legal teams.

In this individual-contributor position, you will lead data-driven analyses, support audits and inquiries, and develop training materials while driving process improvements and