Manager, Corporate Trade EMEA (f/m/d)
Aptiv · Wuppertal
Your Role
The Manager Corporate Trade EMEA will ensure Aptiv's Trade Compliance program across the EMEA region. Working closely with business units, manufacturing sites, supply chain, logistics, finance, tax, legal, engineering, and procurement teams, this role helps ensure compliance with customs, export controls, sanctions, and supply chain security requirements while supporting business growth and operational efficiency.
Roles and responsibilities
- Ensure development and execution of Aptiv's Trade Compliance strategy, priorities, and initiatives across the EMEA region.
- Monitor regulatory and trade policy developments and assess potential business impacts.
- Support business growth initiatives, strategic projects, manufacturing transfers, and supply chain transformations from a Trade perspective.
- Serve and lead as primary point of contact all customs audits, inquiries and regulatory reviews by customs authorities and other regulatory bodies in the EMEA region
- Partner with business units to ensure Trade considerations are incorporated into decision-making.
- Lead Trade Compliance Internal Assessments and drive remediation and closure of corrective actions.
- Develop, maintain, and periodically update Trade policies, procedures, controls, and training materials.
- Support implementation of Trade technology, automation, reporting, and data initiatives.
- Conduct risk assessments, compliance reviews, and trend analysis to identify improvement opportunities.
- Develop and deliver Trade Compliance training and awareness programs.
- Identify, assess, escalate, and help resolve Trade Compliance risks and issues.
- Drive corrective actions and monitor remediation activities from audits, assessments, and investigations.
- Collaborate with business units, Supply Chain, Logistics, Procurement, Engineering, Finance, Tax, Legal, Manufacturing, and Commercial teams to ensure effective execution of Aptiv's global Trade framework.
Your background
- Top-tier global trade experience, including with a law firm, consulting firm, and/or multinational company.
- 5-10 years of relevant Trade experience.
- Experience with customs classification, export controls classification, origin determination, and Trade Compliance processes preferred.
- Technology and/or automotive industry experience is desirable.
- Experience managing audits, assessments, corrective actions, and regulatory compliance activities.
- Experience with SAP GTS preferred.
- English fluency required; German preferred, additional language skills desirable.
Skills & Knowledge
- Strong understanding of international trade, customs, and regulatory compliance concepts.
- Ability to identify, assess, and manage compliance risks in a complex global environment.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical business solutions.
- Experience supporting internal assessments, audits, investigations, and corrective action programs.
- Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Strong project management, organization, and prioritization capabilities.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with senior leaders.
- Experience using compliance, reporting, and business intelligence tools to support risk management and decision-making.
Why join Aptiv
You grow at Aptiv.
Aptiv's winning culture is global by design. We bring together diverse perspectives, cultures, and business contexts to solve our customers' toughest challenges. In this environment, every individual can grow, lead, and make an impact, regardless of background, because inclusion fuels how we innovate and win.
You make an impact at Aptiv.
One of the strengths of humanity is our drive to progress, to improve, to achieve more tomorrow than we did yesterday. People need solutions they can trust when it matters most. At Aptiv, you are building those solutions every day.
You have support at Aptiv.
We ensure you have the resources and support you need to take care of your family, your physical health, and your mental health with a competitive benefits package.
Your benefits
As this role is advertised in few location benefits will be discussed with the recruiter during the first call.
Meet the Next-Generation Aptiv
At Aptiv, we deliver innovative solutions that people trust when it matters most.
Progress is never static. It is about reaching further, exploring new possibilities, and enabling mobility. Aptiv empowers customers to create solutions people rely on—advancing safety and autonomy in Automotive and Commercial Vehicles, enabling mission-critical performance in Aerospace & Defense, and powering intelligent systems across Energy, Enterprise, and Telecommunications. We also drive precision and efficiency in Industrials & Robotics and support life-critical innovation in Medical technologies.
Guided by our winning culture and values to Think & Act Like Owners, as One Team, and Play to Win, we turn commitment into results and achieve more together.
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