At VIATRIS, we see healthcare not as it is but as it should be. We act courageously and are uniquely positioned to be a source of stability in a world of evolving healthcare needs.

Viatris empowers people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life.

We do so via: 

Access – Providing high quality trusted medicines regardless of geography or circumstance;
Leadership – Advancing sustainable operations and innovative solutions to improve patient health; and 
Partnership – Leveraging our collective expertise to connect people to products and services. 
 

Our global portfolio includes best-in-class, iconic brand-name products as well as global key brands; generics, including branded and complex generics; and other offerings across a wide range of therapeutic areas. We are committed to helping create healthier communities worldwide through education, outreach and better access to treatment.

For those driven to live their lives with purpose, Viatris helps employees realise their full potential by creating a collaborative culture that fosters courage and resilience. Viatris is more than just a place to work. This is a place to make a difference in the world.

The Role & What You Will Be Doing

Every day, we rise to the challenge to make a difference and here’s how the EU Trade & Customs Specialist role will make an impact:

Verify the classification of goods, ensuring the correct commodity codes are applied.

Ensure compliance with all relevant customs laws, regulations, and standards.

Support Viatris legal entities and Affiliates with daily queries regarding classification, origin, valuation, Incoterms, customs requirements, and instructions.

Work closely with Supply Chain and Emerging Markets to provide additional documentation: LTSDs, PLA, COO, etc and facilitate the import/export clearance.

Work closely with Customs brokers to provide instructions, improve customs process and track customs clearance status of import and export shipments.

Assist on internal and external customs audits.

Assist on Cost calculations of Bill of Material for Product Preferential qualification

About Your Skills & Experience

For this role, we’re looking for a candidate who has an effective combination of the following qualifications, skills and experiences:

Graduate Degree in Business or a related field with demonstrated experience in an Import & Export or Custom’s specific role preferably within a pharma supply chain environment

Proficiency in tariff classification, valuation, and origin, including Product classification – HS codes, Origin Determination and Proof of Origin.

Understanding Free Trade Agreement, Rules of Origin, and Preferential and Non-Preferential Origin.

Hands-on experience in Customs Management: Customs Instructions, Customs Brokers management and Post Declaration Audit.

Familiarity with Incoterms

Proficiency in Microsoft in Excel and database management systems

Skilled at engaging with key stakeholders at executive management level & effectively scale communication style for executive audiences.

Ability to anticipate and react to frequently changing business climate, delivering results to continual deadline constraints.

Effective at cross-functional and cross-cultural collaboration, demonstrating strong organizational agility

At Viatris, we are dedicated to building a truly diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t fully align with every requirement, we still encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

Why Viatris?

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. You will also have the opportunity to access excellent career progression opportunities and work-life balance initiatives.

Diversity & Inclusion at Viatris

At Viatris, diversity and inclusion are essential to our mission. The diversity we foster in all aspects of our business can be one of our greatest strengths in redefining healthcare not as it is, but as it should be. If you would like to know more about what diversity, equity and inclusion means to us, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/Careers/Diversity-and-Inclusion

Sustainability at Viatris

Corporate social responsibility is fundamental to the Viatris mission. We work to advance responsible and sustainable operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve. To learn more about our efforts, please visit https://www.viatris.com/en/about-us/corporate-responsibility

At Viatris, we offer competitive salaries, benefits and an inclusive environment where you can use your experiences, perspectives and skills to help make an impact on the lives of others. 

Viatris is an Equal Opportunity Employer.