Global Trade & Duty Optimization Director

Heaven Hill Brands; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Heaven Hill Brands invites a seasoned leader to direct its global trade and duty optimization program from Louisville, KY. You will shape strategy, governance, and financial reporting alignment to maximize lawful drawback recoveries while maintaining strong controls.

Collaborate with Tax, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance to ensure accurate documentation and reporting of all recoveries. The role emphasizes building an audit-ready data environment, driving cross-functional execution, and

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise duty drawback strategy, roadmap, and operating model; identify and prioritize recovery opportunities and governance to move from identification through documentation, claim submission, recovery, and ongoing compliance.
• Evaluate import, export, manufacturing, inventory, and supply chain activity to optimize duty and excise tax recovery within law and company risk standards; translate opportunities into quantified business cases, forecasts, and executable plans while preventing overclaims and leakage.
• Serve as Heaven Hill's internal subject matter leader for duty drawback and customs requirements; establish policies, procedures, controls, and audit protocols; partner with Accounting for appropriate accounting treatment and alignment with financial reporting.
• Establish and maintain documentation, data, and record-retention standards to support eligibility, substantiation, audit readiness, and financial reporting; drive data quality and traceability across systems.
• Partner with operational and commercial teams to evaluate how sourcing, manufacturing, inventory, import, and export decisions affect drawback eligibility and recovery opportunities.
• Create clarity around responsibilities, timelines, and decisions across the enterprise; motivate and influence process owners and remove barriers to execution.
• Direct the work of customs brokers, drawback specialists, freight forwarders, external advisors, and counsel; ensure external expertise is integrated while maintaining internal ownership of decisions and controls.
• Establish dashboards and management routines covering opportunity, claims submitted, recoveries realized, forecasted recovery, cycle time, documentation completeness, compliance risk, and potential leakage; translate issues into business implications for senior leadership.

Job description

Heaven Hill Brands invites a seasoned leader to direct its global trade and duty optimization program from Louisville, KY. You will shape strategy, governance, and financial reporting alignment to maximize lawful drawback recoveries while maintaining strong controls.

Collaborate with Tax, Accounting, Legal, and Compliance to ensure accurate documentation and reporting of all recoveries. The role emphasizes building an audit-ready data environment, driving cross-functional execution, and