Full job descriptionSenior Manager, Trade Compliance (Export Controls & Sanctions) TeamBasic informationLocation

Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester

Business Line

Technology & Transformation

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

10-Sep-2026

Req #

25079
Job descriptionConnect to your Industry
Deloitte’s Global Export Controls and Sanctions practice has a worldwide network of over 500 international trade professionals in over 95 countries. The team works seamlessly together to provide strategic and operational trade compliance solutions and advice to clients across the globe.
Our market leading Trade Compliance team is led out of the UK and is the largest and most experienced amongst the Big 4 Professional Services Firms, with a global reputation for its quality and expertise.
Our team includes lawyers, accountants/auditors, former government officials, and industry specialists. This diverse team supports our operations-driven approach and enhances the more traditional, pure legal/regulatory advice, often given by some of our competitors. The team is dynamic, international and entrepreneurial.
Connect to your career at Deloitte
Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way , serve with integrity , take care of each other , foster inclusion , and collaborate for measurable impact . These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
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We are seeking an experienced Senior Manager to join Deloitte UK’s market-leading Trade Compliance team (in London, Birmingham, Bristol or Manchester) with agile and remote working supported. As part of the largest Big 4 Trade Compliance practice in Europe, you will lead complex export controls, sanctions, governance and assurance engagements across diverse industries, build trusted client relationships and help organisations strengthen their risk and compliance capabilities through advisory, process, capability and technology improvements.
Acting as a trusted adviser, you will combine deep trade compliance expertise with commercial acumen to deliver exceptional client value, support strategic growth and help shape the future of clients’ trade compliance programmes. Your responsibilities will include:
· Advisory and Solution Development:
o Anticipate complex client challenges and deliver innovative, enterprise-level solutions through strategic advice, process optimisation, capability development and technology.
o Drive significant business growth by translating market trends into thought leadership, new trade compliance services and compelling commercial propositions.
o Lead complex export classification, licensing, sanctions and controls analysis, including risk assessments, audits and benchmarking against leading practice.
o Design and implement tailored controls, procedures and digital tools that strengthen compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
· Programme Leadership and Delivery:
o Lead and manage large-scale, complex, and high-profile project teams, from strategy through delivery, ensuring quality, client satisfaction and alignment with client and firm objectives.
o Own engagement performance, including budgets, resources, priorities, risks and clear direction to project teams.
· Client, Stakeholder Management and Team Leadership:
o Cultivate, manage, and influence complex senior stakeholder relationships, both internally and externally, acting as a credible and trusted advisor.
o Build trusted, long-term relationships with senior stakeholders, including C-suite executives, identifying opportunities for value creation and communicating appropriately across all levels.
o Lead, mentor and develop diverse teams, fostering inclusion, accountability, continuous learning, innovation and consistently high standards.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
The ideal candidate will be adaptable, able to assimilate trade compliance risks and issues across diverse industries and develop insights into how these might affect different types of businesses.
You will be comfortable changing direction quickly as industry standards emerge or client priorities shift. You will take a pragmatic approach to trade compliance, centred on a solid understanding of trade compliance risk, governance, and compliance frameworks, enabling you to provide sound advice to clients, help them meet challenges, and manage risks effectively and efficiently.
Essential Skills & Experience:
· Trade Compliance Expertise and Client Advisory:
o Deep specialist expertise in export controls across complex jurisdictions, including the UK, US, EU and APAC, with the ability to interpret regulatory change and apply it to multinational operations, emerging technologies and complex business models. Export controls must be the candidate’s principal specialism; customs or logistics experience alone is insufficient.
o Proven ability to advise C-suite and senior stakeholders on complex regulatory, governance and compliance risks, translating technical issues into pragmatic strategies, controls, processes and technology-enabled solutions.
o Strong analytical judgement and problem-solving skills, with the resilience and adaptability to develop effective recommendations in complex, ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
· Engagement, Commercial and Practice Leadership:
o Proven experience leading large, complex and high-profile engagements from strategy through delivery, balancing executive-level advice with detailed technical oversight while ensuring quality and client satisfaction.
o Strong commercial and financial acumen, including managing engagement scope, budgets, forecasts, resources, risks and profitability.
o Demonstrable business development capability, including identifying opportunities, developing compelling propositions and proposals, expanding client relationships and contributing to thought leadership and new services.
· People Leadership, Communication and Professionalism:
o An experienced and inclusive people leader, able to direct, mentor and develop high-performing, multidisciplinary teams-including managers-while promoting accountability, continuous...