Vendor Trade Compliance Specialist
New York, USA Sales
Job description
TJX Companies
At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.
Job Description:
Vendor Trade Compliance Specialist
The Opportunity: Contribute To The Growth Of Your Career.
Based in our New York Buying Office, The Vendor Trade Compliance Specialist will support TJX Australia by being present and located in the North America region. The Specialist develops, implements, and trains existing vendors on TJX policies and procedures and government agency requirements of all importing countries, as it relates to international buying. They will partner with key internal and external collaborators (buying, operations, risk, compliance and legal) to understand and monitor the legal and ethical trading responsibilities and requirements specific to TJX and Australia. This is a hybrid position requiring 2 days per week in our New York City office and the ability to flex hours as needed to support multiple time zones.
Who We Are Looking For: You!
- Reviews and assesses internal and or external processes and procedures and communicates findings to business counterparts.
- Communicates, partners, coaches and (sometimes) challenges vendors to support global compliance goals.
- Develops and maintains a central database that holds all the legally required documents and ethical compliance trading policies.
- Develops and maintains strong working partnerships with Buyers and Vendors to help ensure product compliance standards are met and continuously followed.
- Communicates compliance strategies to buyers (with manager) and strategize processes and partnerships with buyers to achieve – for both product compliance and product labeling.
- Represents TJX to external partners independently or with Manager to support the compliance strategies.
- Monitors and measures vendor compliance assisting the buying teams in developing vendor understanding and solutions to rectify non-compliance.
- Travel to local vendors as needed to support relationships and training opportunities.
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years of Merchandise Operations or other related experience
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
- Strong support skills, including effectively and efficiently responding to merchant, vendor, carrier inquiries
- Proven ability to identify stated and unstated customer needs, and to build relationships with merchants, vendors, and other key partners
- Good knowledge of overall merchandise flow and able to prioritize and work with a multitude of vendor and Merchandising requests
- Process improvement approach with ability to identify root cause of issues and implement updates
- Highly organized with attention to detail, can prioritize multiple work streams concurrently
- Thrives in a fast pace, constantly evolving, deadline driven environment
- Exceptional verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- Proficient with Microsoft 365/Office suite including Excel as well
Address:
1065 Avenue of the AmericasLocation:
USA Buying Office New York NYThis position has a starting salary range of $63,000.00 to $78,800.00 per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience.