Global Trade Compliance Manager

Job Title: Global Trade Compliance Manager Job Type: Exempt/ Full -Time Location: Columbia, Maryland, USA/ Austin, Texas, USA/ Remote Positions: 1 Reporting to: Global Procurement & Supply Chain Director – Liquid Cooling About Us Tate Americas is a key business within Kingspan Data Solutions and is at the forefront of delivering integrated solutions to the rapidly expanding data centre market. We combine engineering expertise, advanced manufacturing and operational excellence to deliver complex, mission-critical projects for some of the world’s largest technology companies. With significant investment and ambitious growth plans, Tate is evolving beyond traditional manufacturing to become a fully integrated solutions provider, offering customers a seamless delivery model from design and manufacturing through installation, commissioning and final handover. About The Role The Global Trade Compliance Manager owns import and export compliance for Tate’s global liquid cooling business, reporting to the Global Director of Procurement and Supply Chain – Liquid Cooling with a dotted line to Legal and Finance. This is the first dedicated trade compliance role on the liquid cooling supply chain team. Tate’s liquid cooling supply chain imports stainless steel content, flow control components, and other mechanical products into a U.S. tariff environment that has been substantially rewritten over the past 18 months. The Global Trade Compliance Manager is accountable for the accuracy of what Tate declares, the defensibility of how goods are classified and valued, and the recovery of duty Tate doesn’t owe. The also carries defined independence. This role works in close partnership with the Global Inbound Logistics Manager. Trade Compliance owns the classification, valuation, COO, entry accuracy, and duty. Incoterms selection, customs broker selection, and IOR structure are joint decisions between these two roles. This is a role for someone who has built a trade compliance program from the ground up. This position is either remote or hybrid to the Columbia, MD area. You will help shape the supply chain strategy reporting to the Global Director of Procurement and Supply Chain of Liquid Cooling. The right person for this role sees around corners and acts accordingly with a sense of urgency. What You’ll Do Own Harmonized Tariff Schedule classification for the liquid cooling bill of material including stainless tube and fittings, manifolds and weldments, valves and quick disconnects, finished assemblies, etc. with written classification rationale maintained on file. Own customs valuation including assists, royalties, intercompany transfer pricing across Kingspan entities, tooling amortization, and post-importation adjustments. Establish and enforce COO determination and substantiation, including substantial transformation analysis and supplier origin declarations supported by mill test certificates. Manage Tate’s customs brokers through written instructions, entry review sampling, error tracking, and corrective action. Maintain a current and quantified tariff exposure model by part and by supplier covering Section 232 coverage and rate tier, Section 301 list exposure, Section 122, antidumping and countervailing duty risk, and applicable most favored nation rates. Manage Section 232 compliance mechanics including country of melt and pour reporting, derivative inclusion tracking as the annex expands, correct Chapter 99 reporting, and entry line splits where U.S. content applies. Pursue duty recovery including IEEPA refund eligibility and the protest or litigation posture Tate should take, drawback feasibility, post-summary corrections, and prior disclosure where an error is identified. Evaluate and, where the business case supports it, implement duty mitigation strategies including foreign trade zone, bonded warehouse, first sale for export, tariff engineering, and free trade agreement qualification. Advise Strategic Sourcing and Commodity Managemen…

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