Director Trade Compliance Strategy & Resilience

Experience: Not Available to Not Available years

Location: Eindhoven

Skills: trade compliance, export controls, sanctions, customs, regulatory strategy, geopolitical risk, semiconductor design, manufacturing, R&D; collaboration, data hosting, global supply chains

Job Summary
Provide proactive strategic decision support on trade-related market access constraints and geopolitical regulatory developments (export controls, sanctions, customs/trade constraints). This role interprets trade compliance developments for advisory purposes and translates them into executive-ready insight, so leadership decisions are informed early and the company avoids late surprises.

Key Responsibilities
Interpret trade compliance regulations and policy developments and translate them into MT- and Corporate/Business strategy-ready briefs, decision memos, and recommended actions.
Monitor regulatory and geopolitical developments, assess relevance, and ensure timely stakeholder engagement.
Provide early advisory input into strategic initiatives so trade compliance implications are understood before decisions are locked in.
Provide “market access by design” advisory input into strategic footprint and architecture decisions (e.g., server/data hosting location, cross-border access models, sensitive engineering activities such as tape-out workflows).




Advise on implications of entering high-sensitivity and nationally regulated market segments by translating constraints into decision-ready options, guardrails, escalation triggers, and recommended controls.
Develop scenario thinking and resilience planning for high-impact regulatory and geopolitical changes.
Coordinate alignment across Trade Compliance domain experts, Legal, Strategy, and business stakeholders to ensure consistent messaging and follow-through.
Translate strategic insights into actionable operationalization priorities and playbook updates.

Qualifications / Experience
Experience in trade compliance, export controls/sanctions, customs/trade, regulatory strategy, or geopolitical risk.
Solid ability to synthesize complex topics into executive-level insights and decision memos.
Proven experience partnering with senior stakeholders across functions.
Demonstrated ability to provide trade compliance advisory support in semiconductor design/manufacturing environments (e.g., tape‑out workflows, R&D; collaboration models, data hosting/access choices, global supply chains).
Semiconductor industry experience is strongly preferred.

Education
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience.
Language Fluent in English (written and spoken).
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