Associate Director – Global Customs & Trade Counsel

Job Description Associate Director – Global Customs & Trade Counsel   At General Motors, we have a vision of a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion, and we believe our people are the driving force behind making this a reality. The Global Finance team is essential to achieving our vision through its ability to generate insights that maximize profitability, minimize risk, and enable greater innovation. At General Motors, we value our employees and strive to create a culture of inclusion, integrity, boldness, and innovation.   The General Motors Global Tax and Customs department focuses on GM’s most strategic and complex tax and customs matters. We manage relationships with numerous external partners that perform many routine functions. We aspire to be trusted advisors to internal customers and external stakeholders by providing actionable, innovative advice in a straightforward manner. We achieve these goals by empowering team members through trust, flexibility, feedback, and career development.   Overview of Your Role   The Associate Director – Global Customs & Trade Counsel serves as GM’s senior legal and compliance advisor for global customs and North American export-control matters. The role establishes enterprise legal strategy, risk governance, policies, and controls; leads significant regulatory controversies, disclosures, appeals, investigations, and audits; advises senior business and Legal leaders on complex commercial arrangements; and oversees continuous improvement across the Customs organization’s Controls & Compliance and Entry Broker Management centers of excellence.   The Associate Director exercises broad influence across regions and business units, including Legal, Finance, Purchasing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other business partners. The role serves as the North American Export Compliance Officer for the Customs organization and is accountable for ensuring that the Global Customs Group understands and complies with applicable export-control laws and regulations governing the export and re-export of GM products, equipment, machinery, vehicles, materials, components, software, technology, technical data, and services.   The Associate Director has enterprise-wide accountability for customs and trade legal matters, regulatory controversies and appeals, complex contract review, the Controls & Compliance Center of Excellence, and the Entry Broker Management Center of Excellence. Detailed accountabilities for these functions are described below. The Associate Director reports directly to the General Director – Global Customs.   Your Responsibilities:   • Serve as the senior legal and compliance authority for the Customs organization’s understanding of and compliance with applicable export-control laws and regulations, including the Export Administration Regulations, International Traffic in Arms Regulations, Office of Foreign Assets Control requirements, and related requirements, as applicable. • Establish and maintain the Customs organization’s legal and compliance strategy, risk priorities, policies, procedures, and governance framework. • Advise senior executives, business leaders, Legal, Finance, Purchasing, Engineering, Supply Chain, and other stakeholders on material customs, trade, export-control, and regulatory risks. • Lead legal strategy for customs and trade audits, investigations, disclosures, protests, appeals, enforcement matters, and other regulatory controversies. • Draft, review, and oversee the submission of U.S. Customs and Border Protection protests, appeals, prior disclosures, voluntary disclosures, and other regulatory filings. • Maintain a globally consistent GM position on key customs topics, including valuation, classification, country of origin, admissibility