Position: Sustainable Operations Specialist

Reporting to: Sustainable Operations Manager, North East Asia

Work Location: Shanghai/Guangzhou, China

Department: Responsible Sourcing, Sustainable Operations

Key Purpose of the Job:

Passionately exuding our organizational values, the Sustainable Operations Specialist is accountable for driving improvements at VF partner factories in all responsible sourcing topics, including Worker Rights and Safety, Environmental Sustainability, Traceability, and “Worker and Community Development”.

Worker Rights and Safety & Post-Audit Support

Support strategic VF factories to remediate issues and build capacity in order to align with “Critical Life Safety” requirements and VF Factory Compliance requirements ( e.g. delivery of training to factory, assist the development of Corrective Action Plan, serving as consultant to CSR relevant policy development & implementation in the factory)

• Support VF’s critical life safety program at factory locations by building awareness and management systems to address key electrical, fire, and safety issues. ( e.g. develop & delivery training to factory, helping factory to roll out the life safety program in the factory)

• Work with factories to remediate issues identified during VF Factory Compliance Audit, and build capacity to ensure long term effectiveness of solutions

• Coordinate with VF employees based at strategic factories in order to ensure VF values are being monitored by all VF staff that engage with factories

Environmental Sustainability

In coordination with Environmental Sustainability leaders at VF –

• Ensure factory location’s understanding of Higg Index Environmental .

• Review and evaluate Higg Index Environmental assessments

• Perform gap/root-cause analysis on factory location’s environmental performance based on Higg Index Environmental

• Build agreed HIGG index targets and a road map for the factory to reach the target.

• Ensure factory is in compliance with VF Global Wastewater Policy

• Drive improved environmental sustainability performance at factory locations by proactively working with factory management to build Management Systems.

• In collaboration with consultants and various programs, improve resource efficiency (energy, water, chemicals) at strategic Tier-1 and Tier-2 factories

• Maintain awareness of key sustainability trends in China and internationally

Worker and Community Development

• Using VF data derived worker surveys, gain a comprehensive understanding of the worker livelihood challenges in local communities

• In collaboration with Worker and Community Development Manager, help to implement projects that provide access to worker’s basic needs that are not currently being met by local governments or their employment

• Regularly review performance with factory and VF management, along with workers themselves, to ensure the WCD programs are improving the workers lives and creating value at the factory.
  

Chemistry

• Provide training and capacity building to support factory with implementation of VF’s Chem-IQ program.

• Reporting to Product Stewardship department for Chem-IQ implementation.

Traceability

• Support department’s objectives regarding traceability of product and raw materials at factory locations

• Data verification through on-site visits and

• Helping factory to roll out relevant programs, in collaboration with Traceability leadership

Major Challenge: Significant domestic travel (more than 60%); occasional international travel

External Communication Required:

Factory owner, manager, supervisor, workers.

Frequency:

Often

Required Professional Qualification:

1. Wrap certified auditor is plus

2. Certified external / internal auditor of ISO 14001 is plus

3. Certified external / internal auditor of OHSAS 18001 is plus

Party of Internal Communication & Degree of Difficulty:

• Team leader of Business unit

• Subordinates

• Cross-functional teams

Required Written Language:

• Native Mandarin Chinese

• Excellent English

• Cantonese Chinese and Korean a plus

Required Oral Language:

• Native Mandarin Chinese

• Excellent English

• Cantonese or Korean a plus

Required Competencies:

• Building Partnership: Strong interpersonal skills (particularly the ability to work collaboratively with and influence others)

• Decision Making: Makes decisions that integrate CSR into business in a sustainable way

• Adaptability: Exemplifies working style that can adapt to suit the situation, and inspire, influence and motivate others to perform

• Driving for results
• Continuous learning

• Creates and builds a sense of trust

• Develop operational excellence that takes a multi-functional perspective on implementation issues.

• Recognition of the trends in social and environmental issues and how they impact on business performance.
  

Required Special Skills:

• Excellent in PowerPoint, Excel, Word

• Excellent analytical skills

• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral

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