Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

Overview: The Manager, Social Responsibility and Sustainability will be a key contributor in monitoring, measuring and remediating our supply chain workplace conditions and environmental practices driving compliance to Steve Madden’s Vendor Code of Conduct.

Major Responsibilities:

• Manage the operations of social and environmental responsibility of our global supply chain, collecting supplier/ factory information to evaluate risk and performance.
• Review existing audit results highlighting audit report issues to agents/suppliers and factories to identify potential risk to the brand.
• Drive sustainable action plans for continuous improvement of root cause issues for social and environmental non-compliance by leveraging supplier services to manage factory training and capacity building.
• Manage new vendor onboarding process. Educate vendors of CSR program requirements and expectations of performance.
• Identify risk areas based on country, product category, volumes and Steve Madden expectations. Monitor and report assessment findings and remediation progress.
• Compile and reconcile data from multiple sources into formats for comprehensive factory reporting of KPI’s and metric goals.
• Maintain supplier and production factory data base.
• Review environmentally preferred material (EPM) certifications to validate requested marketing claims.
• Support brands in driving the use of EPM’s in our products.
• Lead annual Conflict Mineral reporting and collection of CMRT files for customers and Steve Madden SEC reporting.
• Keep abreast of trade and regulatory issues.
• Develop content for training sessions of Steve Madden policies and requirements.
• Handle daily supplier/factory inquiries regarding the CSR program.

Critical Skills:

• Commercial acumen of a global supply chain.
• Strong attention to detail, and follow up.
• Strong planning, project management and coordination skills and ability to manage multiple projects.
• Passion for social responsibility and sustainability with a broad appreciation and understanding of corporate social responsibility, environmental issues and business management.
• Strategic and analytical skills with capability to develop process improvements.
• High degree of proficiency in Excel and strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Respectfully handle sensitive and confidential information.

Education and Experience:

• 3 or more years’ experience of social responsibility and sustainability programs of a global supply chain.
• Prior experience with the coordination and management of strategic CSR and sustainability related programs.
• 3+ years of work experience in a corporate setting with a focus on Social Compliance, Sourcing, Supply Chain, International Business, Auditing, and/or Compliance.
• 3+ years of experience with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) Preferred Qualifications
• Experience working with a large supplier base.
• Bachelor’s Degree