Product Compliance Manager job opportunity at Columbia Sportswear Company.

Columbia Sportswear Company Product Compliance Manager

Experience: 8-years

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Taipei City, T..........Taiwan Region

ABOUT THE POSITION 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. HOW YOU'LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE Product Compliance Program development and deployment Manage corporate Restricted Substance List (RSL) policy implementation and product compliance failure remediation with vendors partners and internal business partners, supplier product compliance tracking and reporting. Manage corporate Chemical Management Policy deployment, aligning with industrial practice and meet the requirement. Support research on sustainable chemistries or green chemistry alternative if require Develop branded fiber process to ensure the brands meet global labelling regulation and requirements Develop global labelling manual and work with internal stakeholders to create standard operation process Support claims validation for wholesale account requests Track Wastewater global regulation and industrial standard, meeting country regulation and align with industrial practices. 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. Assess international market program requirements and establish future process to support business growth Advance Global Product Compliance Team goals and objectives through additional projects and cross-functional support as needed Supply Chain Product Compliance and Wastewater Management Performance Assessment Execute the Chemical and 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 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 center 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 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. YOU HAVE Degree holder of environmental /chemistry / textile / material science related discipline Familiar with global product compliance and wastewater regulation such as CPSIA, REACH, KC mark, GB standard, IPE Familiar with global wastewater compliance regulation and ZDHC wastewater guideline At least 8 years relevant experience in Apparel and Footwear Industry Good communication and analytical skills Good command in spoken English and Mandarin Candidate with practical testing experience from commercial laboratory is also considered Travelling is required 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.

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