Sr. Global Trade & Transportation Manager at Asphalt Buyer II LLC — Huntersville, NC

Position Description:

The Sr. Global Trade & Transportation Manager is responsible for executing and sustaining day-to-day international logistics, customs compliance, and origin transportation processes that enable compliant and efficient inventory flow from suppliers to U.S. ports of entry.

This role oversees origin execution activities, freight forwarder performance, ocean transportation operations, customs compliance processes, shipment visibility, and supplier operational coordination. The position partners closely with suppliers, freight forwarders, customs brokers, ocean carriers, and internal stakeholders to ensure shipment execution, regulatory compliance, and operational performance objectives are consistently achieved.

The role also serves as a key lead for cross-functional initiatives related to global trade compliance, international transportation execution, shipment visibility, operational controls, and process improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute and oversee daily international transportation and origin operations for inbound shipments, ensuring efficient and timely execution.
• Monitor shipment performance across origin, consolidation, and ocean transportation milestones, resolving operational issues to maintain service levels.
• Partner with suppliers, freight forwarders, consolidators, ocean carriers, and internal stakeholders to ensure seamless transportation execution.
• Manage shipment exceptions and proactively resolve delays impacting inventory flow and customer service.
• Monitor transportation KPIs, transit performance, milestone compliance, and operational reporting to drive continuous improvement.
• Support supplier onboarding and operational readiness for international transportation and logistics programs.
• Execute and maintain customs and trade compliance processes, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements and company policies.
• Manage customs broker performance, entry reviews, documentation validation, audits, and resolution of customs-related issues.
• Coordinate customs documentation and support compliance for DDP and supplier-managed import programs while identifying and mitigating regulatory risks.
• Lead projects related to international transportation, customs compliance, trade operations, systems implementations, and process improvements.
• Develop and maintain SOPs, governance processes, training materials, and root cause analyses to strengthen operational performance and compliance.
• Maintain transportation visibility platforms, customs systems, operational dashboards, and KPI reporting while serving as a subject matter expert on global trade and origin operations.

Competencies

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5 years of related experience preferred

Skills

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

Physical Demands Category: Office

• Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
• Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Travel required: As required by the position.