Responsible Sourcing Manager, Amazon Private Brands, Global Sourcing, Amazon Private Brands

Amazon Private Brands is looking for a Social Responsibility Manager to implement responsible sourcing programs, prevent & remediate risks and improve social responsibilities performance with global suppliers, including managing implementation of new initiatives. Amazon is committed to ensuring that all Private Brands products are produced in a way that respects and protects the rights of workers across our supply chain, and to lead by example by upholding and enforcing Amazon's Supply Chain Standard against our own brands. This is a global role that will work closely with Sourcing, Sustainability and Social Responsibility team.

• Key job responsibilities
• 1. Manage the Social Responsibility (SR) audit workflow ensuring all active suppliers under Softlines Private Brands (SPB) are qualified for production. Resolve open issues with suppliers, escalate egregious issues to the business owners, and invent mechanisms to improve efficiency of our SR audits.
• 2. Vet, track, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures for day to day SR execution (audit scheduling and management, corrective action planning and remediation), including simplifying processes and eliminating process gaps (e.g., mismatched supplier data between Private Brands and Social Responsibility systems).
• 3. Identify potential SR risks with global suppliers from historical audit results and the consolidated SR performance scoring system. Work with central Amazon SR team to implement supplier engagement programs with selected SPB sites and track the SR performance improvement to evaluate program effectiveness.
• 4. Build, run, and maintain connection mechanisms with sourcing managers, APB Sustainability, and Amazon Social Responsibility team.

• About the team
• Amazon Private Brands’ (APB) vision is to make every day better with the most trusted products on the planet. We will achieve this by building a cohesive set of products that deliver incremental value to Amazon and fill selection gaps (in assortment, quality, price, convenience or sustainability) for customers. We partner with global suppliers, applying their insights when developing our product assortment strategy, whilst raising the bar on sustainable and responsible sourcing practices.

Basic qualifications

• - 4+ years of compliance program management, legal, governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
• - 3+ years of managing food safety and quality in a large-scale retail or manufacturing environment experience
• - Bachelor's degree in Food Science or related field
• - Knowledge of retail food code and regulations governing grocery retail at local, state, and federal levels
• - Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• - Experience handling confidential information
• - Experience interacting with local food safety regulators

Preferred qualifications

• - 3+ years of program requirements definition and data and metrics leveraging to drive improvements experience
• - Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
• - Experience with SQL and Excel

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