Customs Manager, AMS

1012 LEGO Systems, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Headspace app

Colleague discount

Bonus program

Job summary

LEGO Group is seeking a Customs Manager to guide US and Americas tax and customs efforts within the Global Tax team. You’ll report to the Senior Tax Director in Boston, collaborating with Shipping and Import/Export teams to enable growth with compliant processes.

You’ll lead audits, drive ACE/CBP filings, and develop training for stakeholders while navigating regulatory changes across the Americas. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• Manages local customs licenses and compliance in a multinational setting.
• Leads CTPAT programs and drive compliance initiatives.
• Delivers training programs on customs compliance to stakeholders.
• Directs internal/external customs audits from prep to resolution.
• Operates ACE/CBP reconciliation programs and filings.

Responsibilities

• Monitor regulations and assess business impact across the Americas.
• Support implementation of new customs requirements and initiatives.
• Strengthen governance with shipping and import/export teams for compliant processes.
• Assist in managing audits, licenses, and trade compliance frameworks.
• Contribute to training and capability building within the organization.

Skills

Customs compliance management

CTPAT program management

Audits & training delivery

ACE/CBP processes

Data analysis & problem solving

Tools

SAP

Job description

About the role

Just imagine shaping how the LEGO® Group navigates customs requirements across the Americas while enabling business growth with confidence. Then make it real. As our Customs Manager, you'll play a key role within the Global Tax team, which is accountable for taxes across the LEGO Group. You'll join the Indirect & Transaction Tax team and report to the Senior Tax Director based in Boston, MA. This role connects with colleagues across our digital organization and works closely with our Shipping and Import/Export Teams.

Required Qualifications

• Managed local customs licenses and customs compliance activities within a multinational environment
• Managed Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (CTPAT)
• Delivered customs compliance training programs for business stakeholders
• Directed internal and external customs audits from preparation through resolution
• Executed activities within US Customs and Border Protection ACE and Customs Reconciliation programs, including reconciliation filings

Preferred Qualifications

• Used SAP solutions within tax, trade, or customs environments
• Worked with the US Foreign Trade Zone legal and administrative framework
• Managed transfer pricing adjustments and customs reconciliation processes
• Communicated professionally in intermediate Spanish

What you’ll build

Monitor customs regulations, assess business impact, and support implementation of new requirements.Support business initiatives and ad hoc projects from a customs perspective across the Americas and, at times, other regions.Strengthen governance by partnering with shipping and import/export teams to ensure compliant and efficient processes.Support the management of customs audits and compliance activities.Help maintain customs programs, licenses, and trade compliance frameworks across the region.Contribute to training and capability building within the wider organization.

What matters most is your ability to solve problems, work confidently with data, and translate complex customs topics into practical business actions.

Life on the team: You'll be part of a team that helps protect and enable the business through effective tax and customs management. Working closely with colleagues across our Tax Organization and other business functions, you'll contribute to a collaborative environment with a hybrid working rhythm. We're looking for someone who communicates clearly, builds strong networks, works independently, and enjoys collaborating with colleagues across a global organization.

What success looks like

Success means becoming a trusted customs advisor who can assess regulatory change, guide stakeholders through complex requirements, and support important business initiatives with confidence. Working closely with colleagues across our Tax Organization and other business functions while helping shape customs compliance and governance across the Americas. Over time, you'll build strong relationships across the organization and become a key contributor to informed, risk‑aware decision‑making.

Compensation

The salary for this position has a range of $107,885.00 - $161,827.00 based on anticipated responsibilities, market benchmarks, and organizational constraints. The LEGO Group carefully considers a wide range of compensation factors, including but not limited to prior experience, skills, expertise, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. The comprehensive remuneration details, inclusive of benefits, will be communicated upon finalisation of the employment offer.

What’s in it for you?

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to the Headspace App and lots of wellbeing initiatives and programs run by local teams where you are based.
• Colleague Discount – We know you’ll love to build so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you’ll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.

Your workplace: Your workplace will be the office, store or factory specified in this advert. Hybrid Working: Our hybrid work model, Best of Both offers you the option of flexibility to work from home up to two days per week. Your People Leader will discuss the principles of the model, including how this option applies to your role and team. Learn more about our benefits, culture and workplace experience here.

We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong. The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age, religion and Veteran status) to apply for roles in our team. We support our employees in being there for the moments that matter in life and celebrate families of all kinds, the loved ones that make us who we are.

Being part of the LEGO Group also means taking part in our annual Play Day, playing a part in building a sustainable future and continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.” The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer. Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

We conduct drug screening as a part of our drug free workplace policy and in support of our commitment to the health and safety of our employees.

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