About the job
The Senior Manager, Trade Compliance for the EMEA Region plays a crucial role in overseeing and enhancing trade operations throughout the EMEA area. This position aims to ensure product availability, minimize revenue loss, and support business objectives while adhering to all relevant laws and regulations. The role involves the design and governance of effective trade-monitoring and supply-optimization strategies, ensuring compliance with internal policies, and acting as a vital link between the supply chain, commercial teams, and regional stakeholders. By utilizing advanced analytics, governance, and cross-functional teamwork, this position fosters transparency, mitigates risks, and drives continuous improvement across the supply network.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor and optimize trade operations in the EMEA region, identifying parallel trade, grey-channel activities, and diversion risks through comprehensive dashboards, analytics, and performance indicators.
- Design, execute, and enhance trade-monitoring systems, including metrics, alerts, investigation protocols, and corrective action procedures.
- Implement and manage the Supply Management Optimization (SMO) process, ensuring monthly sales allocations by country, product, and customer.
- Resolve issues with blocked sales and allocation exceptions through data validation, root-cause analysis, and close collaboration with supply chain and market teams.
- Oversee parallel import (PI) notifications, ensuring standardized processes, governance, audit trails, and full compliance with EU regulations and internal frameworks.
- Act as a central point of contact between supply chain, country teams, finance, legal, compliance, and other stakeholders to ensure effective governance and execution of supply optimization policies.
- Collaborate with commercial and market teams to provide insights on channel dynamics, distributor performance, market flows, and trade risks, thereby supporting product launches, pricing strategies, and packaging decisions.
- Consolidate SMO, PI, and supply-chain KPIs into clear dashboards and executive reports, delivering timely insights to senior leadership.
- Drive initiatives for continuous improvement by leveraging digital tools, advanced analytics, and process optimization to reduce costs, mitigate risks, and enhance transparency.

