Supply Chain Analyst II

Are you a trade compliance expert looking for your next challenge?

Ready to solve complex international supply chain puzzles at tech scale?

Join our Network Supply Chain team

This role connects logistics, trade regulations, and engineering to ensure IT hardware and network servers cross borders seamlessly. Join a collaborative global team where expertise influences infrastructure deployment. This opportunity involves managing compliance processes in a dynamic, high-tech environment with significant potential to enhance automation and achieve operational excellence.

Partner with the best

The role involves managing supply chain operations with emphasis on Import/Export Compliance and regulatory requirements. Collaboration with manufacturers, logistics providers, carriers, repair vendors, customs authorities, and legal teams ensures efficient workflows.

As a Supply Chain Analyst, you will be responsible for:

• Collaborating with Akamai Legal and Compliance to ensure adherence to legal and regulatory requirements for Supply Chain and Logistics operations.
• Developing and improving import and export compliance processes, procedures, and controls.
• Determining export authorization requirements and preparing required licenses, license exceptions, supporting documentation, and compliance records.
• Maintaining accurate product classifications, including HTS, Schedule B, and ECCN, and ensuring classification records are complete, current, and auditable.
• Conducting compliance audits, determining import/export controls, delivering export compliance training, and developing KPIs to measure trade compliance performance.
• Overseeing daily operations and performance for Supply Chain providers while supporting senior analysts and Project Managers on selected projects.
• Developing and maintaining a thorough technical understanding of products used across Akamai's deployed network while identifying opportunities for automation and standardization.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Demonstrate experience in international trade compliance, including U.S. import and export regulations, HTS and ECCN classification, export controls, licensing requirements, customs documentation.
• Collaborate across teams with Logistics, Planning, Design, and Engineering to align strategies, guide distribution decisions, and address regulatory requirements effectively.
• Coordinate with customs brokers and logistics providers to ensure smooth operations and adherence to regulations in global shipping activities.
• Demonstrate analytical and data management skills, including advanced Excel proficiency and experience maintaining accurate compliance data in ERP, classification, or document management systems.
• Exhibit communication skills in writing and speaking, including technical correspondence with agencies, while collaborating effectively in a global environment.
• Demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, organization, and capacity to negotiate while managing multiple projects simultaneously.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

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