The Product Compliance Program Manager is responsible for managing Product Compliance, Chemical management program including RSL/MRSL management and wastewater management, leading company wastewater and product safety compliance standards throughout the global manufacturing base, with the goal to meet customer requirements, reduce/eliminate risk to workers and consumers, the environment, the company and brands.
【Product Compliance deployment and Wastewater Program development 】
-Track Wastewater global regulation and industrial standard, meeting country regulation and align with industrial practices.
-Develop and deploy the Wastewater Management program including policy establishment, internal business partner and vendor partner engagement and vendor training.
-Develop and monitor Wastewater compliance testing program to meet country regulation and validate wastewater to ensure company taking the due diligence liability.
-Lead the remediation if any Wastewater compliance failure, find out the root cause by partnering with vendors, provide leadership and make recommendation to minimize the business impact
-Manage corporate Restricted Substance List (RSL) policy implementation and product compliance failure remediation with vendors partners and internal business partner, supplier product compliance tracking and reporting.
-Manage corporate Chemical Management Policy deployment, aligning with industrial practice and meet the minimal requirement.
-Support research on sustainable chemistries or green chemistry alternative if require
【Supply Chain Product Compliance and Wastewater Management Performance Assessment】
-Execute the Wastewater Management assessment tools (Higg FEM) to supply chain, driving the completion and verification rate improvement to give visibility of supply chain performance.
-Manage and track factory KPI to measure Wastewater compliance performance including wastewater discharge permit, and support the integration with material sourcing system.
-Conduct onsite factory audits for chemical management, RSL and wastewater compliance when necessary.
【Supply Chain Engagement, Training and Improvement】
-Identify and analyse the performance gap of supply chain to develop required training program, collaborating with manufacturing partners including liaison office material team and production. Provide recommendation to solve vendor’s challenge during the program implementation.
-Engage internal and external stakeholders building relationship with the company manufacturing partners and the industry including testing service providers, GIZ fabric and other brands
-Lead vendor meeting to communicate vendor performance and make recommendation of score card improvement.
-Communicate and deliver technical RSL and Wastewater training to internal and external stakeholders, acting as technical centre to business partners for product compliance and wastewater requirement.
-On-boarding the new hire from liaison offices and new vendors, introducing of company compliance policy and process
-Manage wastewater capacity building programs by collaborating with business partner and service providers, including stakeholders’ engagement, program status tracking, make recommendation of improvement, negotiate with vendors or manufacturing partners to adopt required change.
Columbia Sportswear Company and our portfolio of brands, including Columbia, SOREL, Mountain Hardwear and prAna, know a thing or two about adventures. After all, we've been on one since 1938, working to perfect the art of enjoying the outdoors. Behind everything we make is an employee who's found that the greatest adventure starts with joining a company that strives to do the right thing.
This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
