Senior Import Compliance Program Manager

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Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology?    

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The Senior Import Compliance Program Manager is responsible for leading diagnostics-level import compliance programs that reduce tariff exposure, strengthen internal controls and harmonize import practices across Danaher Diagnostics operating companies. This role will own strategic tariff mitigation initiatives, lead technical import escalations related to classification, country of origin and import program harmonization.

This position reports to the Director, Trade Compliance and is part of the Danaher Diagnostics Trade Compliance team and will be fully remote .

In this role, you will have the opportunity to: • Lead strategic tariff mitigation programs across diagnostic operating companies, including opportunity identification, execution tracking, savings validation and leadership-ready reporting. • Serve as a diagnostics-level escalation point for technical import matters, including tariff classification, country of origin analysis, customs valuation, special programs, import documentation and harmonized implementation of import processes. • Monitor trade regulatory changes and maintain related procedures, documentation, KPIs and reporting to drive timely updates and visibility to program health, savings, control gaps and escalations. • Strengthen import internal controls by validating practices against approved procedures, coordinating self-testing and ensuring corrective actions are tracked to closure. • Oversee tariff refund, recovery and post-entry activities while partnering with OpCo trade teams, finance, sourcing, logistics, legal and advisors to drive consistent import compliance execution across the diagnostics platform.

The essential requirements of the job include: • Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, international trade, finance, law, or a related field preferred (or equivalent work experience) with 10+ years of progressive experience in U.S. import compliance, customs brokerage, trade compliance, or related areas. • Demonstrated experience advising on HTS classification, country of origin, import internal controls and customs program requirements in a complex, multi-site or matrixed organization. • Experience leading cross-functional projects or programs involving tariff mitigation, duty recovery, post-entry actions, internal controls or import process harmonization. • Experience developing or maintaining compliance procedures, technical documentation, metrics, KPIs, dashboards or leadership reporting for import compliance programs.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements: • Ability to travel up to 10-15% domestically or internationally, as business needs require. • Primarily remote work environment; no routine physical requirements beyond standard computer-based work.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in: • Diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences, biotechnology or other regulated industry experience. • Licensed Customs Broker (LCB) credential and advanced use of ACE, Power BI, or other trade compliance analytics tools. • Danaher Business System, lean, continuous improvement or formal project management methodology.

Within Danaher Diagnostics, we offer a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it is a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Within Danaher Diagnostics we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position may be eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team.

The annual salary range for this role is $160-180K. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including flexible time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Comp

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