Specialist, Responsible Sourcing Operations
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Responsible sourcing specialist advancing VF factory compliance, worker rights, safety, and sustainability. Supporting VF factories and partners through audits, corrective actions, and development programs.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure factories comply with VF standards
- Support safety and worker rights initiatives
- Drive environmental sustainability and contribute to worker and community development efforts
- Collaborate with VF factories, regional offices, cross-functional teams, NGO partners, and other stakeholders
- Support implementation of responsible sourcing requirements and improvement activities at assigned factories
- Conduct routine factory visits
- Follow up on corrective actions and review supporting evidence
- Maintain accurate records and provide practical guidance based on VF requirements
- Identify and escalate critical, recurring, or unresolved issues
- Support factories in understanding and implementing VF requirements, local legal requirements, and international standards
- Help identify compliance gaps, develop corrective action plans, and verify corrective-action effectiveness through visits, document reviews, and discussions
- Communicate with vendors and factories about Facility Guidelines and provide tools and knowledge for audit preparation
- Collaborate with the VF Safety Team and Safety Program Providers through on-site and remote visits
- Coordinate on-site and remote visits from third-party assessment, training, and remediation firms
- Support incident investigation and remediation of labor issues or allegations
- Respond quickly to critical concerns in assigned countries
- Work with the Environmental Sustainability Team to build Environmental Management Systems at factories
- Promote and advise on energy-efficiency and renewable-energy programs
- Drive factory participation in basic-needs assessments
- Support program implementation and review Worker and Community Development program performance
Requirements:
- Experience in factory compliance audits with excellent knowledge of labor, Health & Safety, and environment local laws
- Thorough knowledge of auditing processes and database administration
- Excellent report writing and communication skills in both oral and written English
- Ability to develop and maintain partnerships with key stakeholders across the business
- Independent worker with strong problem-solving skills
- Ability to consider perspectives aside from their own
- Keen sense of urgency and ability to prioritize and complete assigned tasks in a tight schedule
- At least 3 years of relevant experience in responsible sourcing, factory compliance, social auditing, supplier improvement, or a related field, including practical experience in factory engagement and corrective action follow-up
- Bachelor’s degree in labor relations, law, occupational health and safety, environmental science or engineering, social sciences, business, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Expertise in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and web skills
- Knowledge of labour, health, safety, and environmental auditing
- Knowledge of laws, regulations, and industry standards of the region
- Knowledge of labor and employment laws and regulations
- Knowledge of human and labor rights
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