Associate Customs Trade Compliance Analyst

1003 Abbott Laboratories; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 51,000 - 101,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HIP PPO medical plan

Excellent retirement savings plan

Tuition reimbursement

FreeU education benefit

Job summary

Abbott in Irving, Texas, seeks an Associate Customs Trade Compliance Analyst to support import, export, and FTZ compliance. The role analyzes trade data, conducts audits, maintains classifications, and responds to regulatory inquiries.

Responsibilities include reviewing transactions for regulatory compliance, coordinating with logistics and procurement, and driving process improvements. Travel up to 5% may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills with proficiency in Excel.
• Ability to work across teams and time zones with organization and planning skills to handle a variety of complex matters under deadline.
• Strong financial skills and understanding of how to read and use government regulations.
• Proficient with statistics and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Review import, export, and FTZ transactions for regulatory compliance.
• Conduct audits, identifying compliance risks, and recommending corrective actions.
• Maintaining tariff classifications, country-of-origin determinations, valuation data, and trade records.
• Supporting customs activities such as RFIs, post-entry amendments, and regulatory inquiries.
• Partnering with logistics, supply chain, procurement, operations, and freight forwarders to ensure compliant trade activities.
• Preparing reports, analyzing data, and driving process improvements and cost-saving opportunities.
• Escalating compliance issues and supporting implementation of corrective actions.

Skills

Analytical

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life‑changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

About Abbott

JOB DESCRIPTION: About Abbott Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve people’s health. We’re always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology. Our diagnostic solutions are used in hospitals, laboratories, and clinics around the globe. The crucial information derived from our tests, instruments and informatics systems are often the first step in patient care decision making for hundreds of health conditions from heart attacks to blood disorders to infectious diseases and cancers. Working at Abbott at Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life.

You’ll also have access to

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution.
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This is not a remote opportunity. Must be able to travel up towards 5%. The Associate Customs Trade Compliance Analyst supports Abbott's import, export, and Foreign Trade Zone (FTZ) compliance programs by ensuring adherence to U.S. Customs regulations, FDA requirements, export controls, and corporate policies. The role analyzes trade and operational data, conducts compliance reviews and audits, maintains classification and country‑of‑origin records, and supports customs inquiries and corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Reviewing import, export, and FTZ transactions for regulatory compliance.
• Conducting audits, identifying compliance risks, and recommending corrective actions.
• Maintaining tariff classifications, country‑of‑origin determinations, valuation data, and trade records.
• Supporting customs activities such as RFIs, post‑entry amendments, and regulatory inquiries.
• Partnering with logistics, supply chain, procurement, operations, and freight forwarders to ensure compliant trade activities.
• Preparing reports, analyzing data, and driving process improvements and cost‑saving opportunities.
• Escalating compliance issues and supporting implementation of corrective actions.

Skills

• Strong analytical, problem‑solving, and communication skills.
• Advanced Excel proficiency.
• Ability to determine HTS classifications and assess Section 232 tariff applicability.
• Ability to review commercial invoices, packing lists, and country‑of‑origin documentation for compliance and reject non‑compliant supplier documentation when necessary.
• Experience with compliance reviews, auditing, data analysis, and working across cross‑functional teams.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office Skills with proficiency in Excel.
• Ability to work across teams and time zones possessing organization and planning skills to simultaneously handle a variety of complex matters under the pressures of a deadline.
• Strong financial skills and understanding of how to read and use government regulations.
• Proficient with statistics and analysis.

Preferred Qualification

• Related experience in trade compliance, supply chain, logistics, finance, or related field.

Learn more about our health and wellness benefits, which provide the security to help you and your family live full lives: www.abbottbenefits.com

Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life.

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity. Connect with us at www.abbott.com, on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Abbott and on Twitter @AbbottNews and @AbbottGlobal.

The base pay for this position is $50,700.00 – $101,300.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

Job Family Information

• JOB FAMILY: Supply Chain
• DIVISION: CRLB Core Lab
• LOCATION: United States > Irving : LC-02
• ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:
• WORK SHIFT: Standard
• TRAVEL: Yes, 5 % of the Time
• MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE: Not Applicable

Significant Work Activities

• Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)
• Keyboard use (greater or equal to 50% of the workday)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

Abbott is about the power of health. For more than 135 years, Abbott has been helping people reach their potential — because better health allows people and communities to achieve more. With a diverse, global network serving customers in more than 160 countries, we create new solutions — across the spectrum of health, around the world, for all stages of life. Whether it’s next‑generation diagnostics, life‑changing devices, science‑based nutrition, or novel reformulations, we are advancing some of the most innovative and revolutionary technologies in healthcare, helping people live their best lives through better health. The people of Abbott come to work each day with relentless energy, enthusiasm and a promise to enhance the health and well‑being of millions of people. They push the boundaries to help manage and treat some of life’s greatest health challenges. We invite you to explore opportunities at Abbott, to see if your talents and career aspirations may fit with our openings. An equal opportunity employer, Abbott welcomes and encourages diversity in our workforce.

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