Danaher

Senior Import Compliance Program Manager

Danaher$160K — $180K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, international trade, finance, law, or related field (or equivalent experience) with 10+ years in U.S. import compliance or customs brokerage.
  • Experience advising on HTS classification, country of origin, and customs program requirements in complex organizations.
  • Proven record of leading cross-functional projects or programs related to tariff mitigation and import process harmonization.
  • Ability to develop and maintain compliance procedures, technical documentation, and metrics for import compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategic tariff mitigation programs across Danaher Diagnostics companies to identify opportunities and track execution.
  • Serve as the escalation point for technical import matters related to classification and customs valuation.
  • Monitor trade regulatory changes and maintain related procedures and KPIs for program visibility.
  • Strengthen import internal controls by validating practices and ensuring corrective actions are tracked.
  • Oversee tariff refund and recovery activities, partnering with cross-functional teams to ensure import compliance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible paid time off and remote work options.
  • 401(k) plan for eligible employees with company contributions.
  • Opportunity for bonus/incentive pay based on performance.
Full Job Description

The Senior Import Compliance Program Manager is responsible for leading diagnostics-level import compliance programs that reduce tariff exposure, strengthen internal controls and harmonize import practices across Danaher Diagnostics operating companies. This role will own strategic tariff mitigation initiatives, lead technical import escalations related to classification, country of origin and import program harmonization.

This position reports to the Director, Trade Compliance and is part of the Danaher Diagnostics Trade Compliance team and will be fully remote.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

  • Lead strategic tariff mitigation programs across diagnostic operating companies, including opportunity identification, execution tracking, savings validation and leadership-ready reporting.
  • Serve as a diagnostics-level escalation point for technical import matters, including tariff classification, country of origin analysis, customs valuation, special programs, import documentation and harmonized implementation of import processes.
  • Monitor trade regulatory changes and maintain related procedures, documentation, KPIs and reporting to drive timely updates and visibility to program health, savings, control gaps and escalations.
  • Strengthen import internal controls by validating practices against approved procedures, coordinating self-testing and ensuring corrective actions are tracked to closure.
  • Oversee tariff refund, recovery and post-entry activities while partnering with OpCo trade teams, finance, sourcing, logistics, legal and advisors to drive consistent import compliance execution across the diagnostics platform.

The essential requirements of the job include:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, international trade, finance, law, or a related field preferred (or equivalent work experience) with 10+ years of progressive experience in U.S. import compliance, customs brokerage, trade compliance, or related areas.
  • Demonstrated experience advising on HTS classification, country of origin, import internal controls and customs program requirements in a complex, multi-site or matrixed organization.
  • Experience leading cross-functional projects or programs involving tariff mitigation, duty recovery, post-entry actions, internal controls or import process harmonization.
  • Experience developing or maintaining compliance procedures, technical documentation, metrics, KPIs, dashboards or leadership reporting for import compliance programs.

Travel, Motor Vehicle Record & Physical/Environment Requirements:

  • Ability to travel up to 10-15% domestically or internationally, as business needs require.
  • Primarily remote work environment; no routine physical requirements beyond standard computer-based work.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

  • Diagnostics, medical devices, life sciences, biotechnology or other regulated industry experience.
  • Licensed Customs Broker (LCB) credential and advanced use of ACE, Power BI, or other trade compliance analytics tools.
  • Danaher Business System, lean, continuous improvement or formal project management methodology.

Within Danaher Diagnostics, we offer a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it is a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Within Danaher Diagnostics we believe in designing a better, more sustainable workforce. We recognize the benefits of flexible, remote working arrangements for eligible roles and are committed to providing enriching careers, no matter the work arrangement. This position may be eligible for a remote work arrangement in which you can work remotely from your home. Additional information about this remote work arrangement will be provided by your interview team.

The annual salary range for this role is $160-180K. This is the range that we in good faith believe is the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

This job is also eligible for bonus/incentive pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including flexible time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company’s sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.


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About Danaher

Beckman Coulter develops, manufactures and markets products that simplify, automate and innovate complex biomedical testing. More than 275,000 Beckman Coulter systems operate in both Diagnostics and Life Sciences laboratories on seven continents. For more than 75 years, our products have been making a difference in peoples' lives by improving the productivity of medical professionals and scientists, supplying critical information for improving patient health and delivering trusted solutions for research and discovery.

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78,000 employees
Market Cap
$189 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.6 billion
Founded
1969
5 Year Trend
+11.8%
Revenue
$22.2 billion
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