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Director, Global Trade & Customs Advisory

Grant Thornton LLP
  • Atlanta, GA
  • Autofill and Review
30+ days ago

Job Description

The Director, Global Trade & Customs Advisory in a senior leadership role responsible for driving growth, delivery excellence, and market positioning of the firm's Global Trade practice. This role combines deep customs and global trade technical expertise with executive-level client advisory, revenue generation, and practice leadership responsibilities.

The Director leads complex, multi-disciplinary engagements, serves as a trusted advisor to senior client executives, and plays a critical role in expanding the firm's Global Trade footprint through go-to-market leadership, solution development, and talent development-helping clients navigate regulatory complexity with confidence.

Your day-to-day may include:

Client Advisory and Engagement Leadership

  • Serve as a senior advisor to C-suite and executive-level trade, tax, supply chain, and finance leaders at multinational clients
  • Lead large-scale, complex Global Trade & Customs Advisory engagements for clients, including multi-country and multi-workstream programs
  • Provide strategic guidance across customs and trade areas, including:
  • Import/export compliance and governance
  • Tariff classification, valuation, and origin strategy
  • Free trade agreements and duty optimization
  • Trade remedies, enforcement risk, and regulatory change management

Quality, Risk, and Technical Oversight

  • Ensure delivery of high-quality, defensible work products aligned with regulatory requirements and firm risk standards
  • Review and approve engagement scope, deliverables, and conclusions for technical accuracy and defensibility
  • Act as a senior escalation point for complex technical and regulatory matters
  • Ensure compliance with firm independence, quality, and risk management policies

Leadership and Practice Development

  • Lead, mentor, and develop high-performing Global Trade professionals across all levels
  • Build and scale Global Trade talent capabilities, including technical training and career development initiatives
  • Collaborate effectively within a matrixed organization, partnering with Tax, Supply Chain, Technology, and Advisory leadership
  • Drive revenue generation, client relationship management, and overall Global Trade practice growth

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, International Business, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
  • Minimum of 12 years of experience in customs and global trade, including significant experience in a professional services environment
  • Deep technical expertise in U.S. and international customs and global trade regulations
  • Proven experience leading Global Trade technology implementations and large-scale advisory engagements
  • Demonstrated success in revenue generation, client relationship management, and practice growth
  • Strong executive-level communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills

Numbers & Facts

LocationAtlanta, GA
IndustryAccounting and Auditing Services
Company Size5,000 to 9,999 employees
Year Founded1924

About Company

At Grant Thornton, our people are talented, intellectually curious and driven to make a difference. People who come to work here are empowered to contribute from their very first client engagement. They develop their skills working alongside our partners and through our formal leadership and technical training programs. In short, it is our ambition to build better business professionals faster than our competitors. If you dream of working with innovative colleagues who support and inspire you, Grant Thornton is the place for you. Visit www.GrantThornton.jobs today.

Skills

  • Career Developmentunmatched
  • Change Managementunmatched
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)unmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Delivery Drivingunmatched
  • Financeunmatched
  • Financial Systemsunmatched
  • Import/Export Complianceunmatched
  • Information Technology & Information Systemsunmatched
  • International Businessunmatched
  • International Financeunmatched
  • Leadershipunmatched
  • Maintain Complianceunmatched
  • Market Shareunmatched
  • Matrix Managementunmatched
  • Mentoringunmatched
  • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
  • Professional Servicesunmatched
  • Quality Managementunmatched
  • Regulationsunmatched
  • Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
  • Revenue Growthunmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Risk Managementunmatched
  • Supply Chainunmatched
  • Talent Managementunmatched
  • United States Customsunmatched

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