Title: Responsible Supply Chain Manager
Company Description: Global Children’s Apparel Company
Location: New York, New York
Salary: $75,000-$125,000
*Salary is commensurate with experience and is an estimated range provided by JPSearch*
Responsibilities:
- Manage and oversee responsible supply chain programs across a global network of manufacturing partners.
- Lead factory onboarding, approval, monitoring, performance evaluation, corrective action planning, and offboarding processes.
- Partner closely with Sourcing teams to evaluate prospective vendors and identify operational, compliance, labor, environmental, and reputational risks.
- Develop and execute strategies that ensure alignment with customer requirements, licensing partners, regulatory standards, and internal compliance expectations.
- Monitor factory compliance through audits, assessments, risk reviews, remediation programs, and performance tracking.
- Create and maintain supply chain risk management frameworks to assess and minimize operational, social, environmental, and compliance-related risks.
- Establish meaningful KPIs, scorecards, and reporting metrics to monitor factory performance, compliance trends, and continuous improvement efforts.
- Drive transparency and traceability initiatives throughout the supply chain and support evolving sustainability goals and programs.
- Collaborate with Product Development, Production, Merchandising, Quality Assurance, and overseas teams to ensure responsible sourcing practices are integrated throughout the product lifecycle.
- Manage relationships with third-party audit firms, compliance partners, certification bodies, and industry organizations.
- Ensure compliance requirements for major retail accounts are consistently met and documented.
- Prepare internal and external reports related to factory performance, audit findings, sustainability initiatives, and supply chain compliance activities.
- Stay informed on emerging industry regulations, sustainability developments, labor standards, and responsible sourcing best practices.
- Support executive leadership with strategic initiatives and special projects related to supply chain responsibility, compliance, and sustainability.
- Assist in developing training programs and educational resources for internal teams and vendor
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Sustainability, Business, Industrial Engineering, Manufacturing, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Studies, or a related field.
- Minimum 3-5 years of experience in responsible sourcing, supply chain compliance, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, manufacturing operations, factory compliance, or supply chain management.
- Apparel, footwear, accessories, or consumer products industry experience strongly preferred.
- Experience working directly with domestic and international manufacturing facilities.
- Experience conducting or managing factory assessments, audits, compliance reviews, and corrective action plans.
- Demonstrated understanding of global supply chains and vendor management practices.
- Experience supporting customer, retail, regulatory, and licensing compliance requirements.
- Strong understanding of labor compliance, workplace safety, environmental compliance, social responsibility, and ethical sourcing principles.
- Knowledge of factory operations, manufacturing processes, and supply chain management practices.
- Familiarity with sustainability initiatives, traceability programs, and responsible sourcing frameworks.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret complex supply chain data.
- Ability to identify trends, assess risk, and develop actionable recommendations.
- Strong project management and organizational skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to influence and collaborate across multiple departments and organizational levels.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment with multiple priorities.
- Ability to build relationships with internal teams, suppliers, licensors, customers, and external stakeholders worldwide.
- Proficiency with reporting tools, compliance platforms, and Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience within a licensed children's apparel or consumer products organization.
- Familiarity with retailer compliance programs and customer-specific supply chain requirements.
- Experience working with industry organizations, sustainability initiatives, or social compliance programs.
- Knowledge of supply chain traceability tools and sustainability reporting methodologies.
- Prior experience creating supplier scorecards, risk assessment programs, or compliance performance metrics.
- Experience working with multicultural teams and global vendor partnerships.
- Strong collaborator who can effectively partner across departments and regions.
- Strategic thinker with the ability to balance compliance requirements with business objectives.
- Highly organized and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Solutions-oriented with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Self-starter who thrives in an evolving and dynamic environment.
- Strong coaching and relationship-building skills.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.
- Comfort visiting manufacturing facilities, vendor partners, and international offices to support compliance, sustainability, and responsible sourcing initiatives.