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FTZ Trade Operations Manager
AWM-9445-FTZ Trade Operations Manager
4/30/2025
5/4/2025
Negotiable
Permanent

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http://careers.cummins.com/
Nashville, TN, 37230, USA
Nashville
Tennessee
United States
37230

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DESCRIPTION

We are looking for a talented FTZ Trade Operations Manager to join our team specializing in Logistics in your remote home office.

In this role, you will make an impact in the following ways:

  • Compliance Expertise : You'll maintain a strong understanding of import/export laws and regulations, ensuring compliance in your assigned geography and providing technical expertise.

  • Process Improvement : By evaluating processes, you'll identify opportunities to reduce risks and costs for import/export activities, implementing changes to capture these opportunities.

  • Business Advising : You'll advise the business on capturing new opportunities and meeting current needs in a compliant and cost-effective manner.

  • Problem Resolution : Acting as a point of escalation, you'll resolve complex, non-routine problems, ensuring smooth operations.

  • Management Reporting : You'll review and present management reports on import/export activities, providing valuable insights for decision-making.

  • Training and Development : You'll conduct training on import/export topics and promote employee development, guiding and directing on problems and issues.

  • Relationship Building : You'll maintain and expand strong relationships with governmental organizations and brokers, ensuring consistent compliance and appropriate documentation.

  • Export Controls Management : You'll develop and execute a strong understanding of export control laws, communicate changes, review applications, and monitor programs to ensure global compliance.

RESPONSIBILITIES

To be successful in this role you will need the following:

  • Action Oriented : Embrace new opportunities and tough challenges with urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm to drive progress and innovation.

  • Team Building : Develop strong-identity teams that leverage diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals, fostering a collaborative and productive environment.

  • Collaboration : Build strong partnerships and work collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives, ensuring smooth and effective teamwork.

  • Effective Communication : Deliver multi-mode communications that clearly convey the unique needs of different audiences, ensuring understanding and alignment.

  • Customer Focus : Build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions, prioritizing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

  • Results-Driven : Consistently achieve results, even under tough circumstances, demonstrating resilience and determination.

  • Complexity Management : Make sense of complex, high-quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems and make strategic decisions.

  • Process Optimization : Identify and implement the most effective and efficient processes to get things done, with a focus on continuous improvement.

  • Trade Knowledge : Apply knowledge of relevant trade regulations to Cummins processes and systems to minimize trade risks and costs, ensuring compliance and efficiency.

  • Valuing Differences : Recognize and appreciate the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to the organization, fostering an inclusive and diverse environment.

Education, Licenses, Certifications:

  • College, university, or equivalent degree or equivalent experience required.

  • This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

Experience:

  • Significant (5+ years) relevant work experience, including supervisory experience, required.

QUALIFICATIONS

Additional Information:

  • Direct experience with implementing a new Foreign Trade Zone (Administrative, Operational, and IT Systems).

  • Direct experience communicating Foreign Trade Zone requirements to leadership teams.

  • Direct experience with leading the daily operations a Foreign Trade Zone.

  • Direct experience navigating customs regulations to provide evidence to support stance.

  • U.S. Customs Brokerage Licensure preferred.

Compensation:

Please note that the salary range provided is a good faith estimate on the applicable range. The final salary offer will be determined after considering relevant factors, including a candidate’s qualifications and experience, where appropriate.

Job Logistics

Organization Cummins Inc.

Role Category Remote

Job Type Exempt - Experienced

Min Salary $103200

Max Salary $154800

ReqID 2414269

Relocation Package No

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At Cummins, we are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer dedicated to diversity in the workplace. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified persons without regard to race, gender, color, disability, national origin, age, religion, union affiliation, sexual orientation, veteran status, citizenship, gender identity and/or expression, or other status protected by law. Cummins validates the right to work using E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new employee’s Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. Visit http://EEOC.gov to know your rights on workplace discrimination.

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