• Lead Nextpower’s trade compliance function across critical markets—unlocking market access, strengthening customer trust, and driving cost leadership to accelerate utility-scale solar growth. • Set the vision and operating model for an import-centric program in the United States, Canada, and Australia, with oversight across APAC and Oceania. • Direct day-to-day customs execution; advance duty-optimization initiatives (e.g., First Sale for Export and Section 232); steward one global center of excellence; enable cross-functional decisions that keep product moving compliantly and competitively. • Define the multi-year trade-compliance strategy; establish policies, SOPs and internal controls that translate regulations into scalable, auditable processes across regions. • Own importer-of-record programs and oversee day-to-day customs execution, engaging directly with customs authorities to ensure timely, accurate clearances. • Lead one enterprise trade specialty (classification, origin, valuation, or duty-optimization); maintain rulings and master data; issue authoritative guidance and coach regional teams on complex determinations. • Drive compliant savings through tariff engineering, preferential trade; prepare recommendation memos and secure cross-functional adoption. • Monitor and interpret trade laws, sanctions and trade-remedy actions; brief executives on impacts and options; coordinate company responses to regulatory inquiries and assessments in partnership with Legal. • Select, contract and performance-manage customs brokers; direct outside counsel and consultants for rulings, interpretations and specialized matters. • Govern accuracy of HTS/ECCN/COO and related attributes in ERP/GTM; deploy dashboards and controls that surface anomalies, support landed-cost decisions and provide executive-level reporting. • Lead the roadmap to achieve and sustain CTPAT Importer certification, coordinating physical, procedural and IT-security criteria with internal teams and business partners. • Maintain a proportionate export-control framework to support occasional exports. • Influence sourcing, engineering, logistics and commercial decisions; integrate compliance requirements into new products, sourcing shifts, systems projects and M&A due diligence.