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What will you do?

A day in the life of a Senior Manager, Brand Compliance at VF looks a little like this.

The Senior Manager, Brand Compliance is a pivotal role within the Global Product Stewardship department of VF’s Sustainability and Responsible Sourcing division. This position oversees responsible sourcing initiatives for licensee and collaboration partners of VF Brands globally. The role involves close collaboration with various stakeholders, including VF brands’ stakeholders, licensing teams, the Global Responsible Sourcing team, regional Sourcing Offices, legal, and product stewardship teams. The primary responsibility is to manage the onboarding, monitoring, and screening of VF Brands’ licensee and collaboration factories globally. This includes overseeing factory audits and managing Customer Compliance Requirements.

The Senior Manager leads a team to facilitate and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) of factory audits, ensuring adherence to labor and environmental standards. They coordinate corrective actions and maintain compliance documentation. Specific KPIs include the factory onboarding and screening, number of audits completed, percentage of factories meeting compliance standards, and the effectiveness of corrective action plans implemented. This role reports to the Vice President, Global Product Stewardship.

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

Principal Accountabilities:

Governance and Onboarding: Develop, publish, and update the licensee factory onboarding governance policy as necessary. Manage the governance and onboarding processes for factories and suppliers involved in licensing, collaborations, and partnerships. Ensure that all new factories and suppliers meet VF’s facility compliance standards from the outset. This requires a strong organizational and communication skill set to effectively manage and update policies.

Supplier Screening: Oversee the screening of new and existing suppliers used by licensees, collaboration partners, gift-with-purchase, and promotional items partners to ensure they comply with company standards and requirements. This includes conducting thorough assessments of suppliers' labor practices, environmental impact, and overall adherence to VF’s facility compliance standards. This role demands a manager with expert knowledge in a specialized field and broad knowledge of several related disciplines.

Responsible Sourcing Initiatives: Develop and continuously monitor responsible sourcing initiatives, where applicable to in-scope facilities. This encompasses the selection and onboarding of licensee and collaboration partners, screening and onboarding of factories, monitoring and tracking responsible sourcing audits (factory compliance, critical life safety, etc.), issuing and guiding corrective action plans, and reporting on key performance indicators (KPIs). Ensure that all initiatives align with VF’s sustainability goals and compliance standards. This requires broad theoretical knowledge and the ability to direct the application of existing principles while guiding the development of new policies and ideas.

Team Leadership: Provide guidance, advice, and training for two direct reports. Ensure effective team performance and professional development by setting clear goals, offering regular feedback, and supporting their career growth within the organization. This involves strong people management skills, including performance management and resource planning.

Training and Education: Engage and influence Brand licensing team, licensee partners, collaboration partners, gift-with-purchase, and promotional items partners and their suppliers to ensure they meet VF’s company standards. Provide comprehensive guidance, advice, and training to internal stakeholders and external partners. Foster a culture of continuous improvement and compliance through regular training sessions and educational programs. This requires the ability to adapt style and use persuasion in delivering messages, often advising others on complex matters.

Corrective Action Plans: Collaborate with licensees, partners, and internal stakeholders to develop and implement corrective action plans based on audit findings. Ensure that all corrective actions are effectively communicated, tracked, and completed within specified timelines to maintain compliance. This involves understanding complex issues and devising solutions based on limited information, considering long-term implications and enforcing consequence model for zero-tolerance issues.  

Supplier Engagement: Engage and influence suppliers used by licensees and collaboration partners to ensure they meet VF’s standards and social responsibility initiatives. Build strong relationships with suppliers to promote adherence to VF’s facility standards and sustainability goals. This requires the ability to develop recommendations to sell ideas or services and frequently advise others on complex matters.

Stakeholder Collaboration: Meet regularly with purchasing, manufacturing, and sales leadership to ensure in-scope initiatives are being met. Address any issues that arise promptly and work collaboratively to find solutions that align with VF’s compliance and sustainability objectives. This involves translating strategic plans into operational plans and guiding their execution to achieve medium-term goals.

Impact and Goals: Focus on achieving short and medium-term goals by translating strategic plans into operational plans and guiding their execution. Ensure that all initiatives and activities contribute to the overall success of VF’s business, brands, and responsible sourcing strategies. This requires developing and managing operational initiatives to deliver tactical results.

Accountability: Develop short, medium, and long-term goals and strategy, provide input into the budgeting process, manage performance management of the team, and resource planning. Ensure that all resources are effectively allocated and managed to support the department’s objectives and VF’s broader goals. This involves being accountable for meeting short- to medium-term targets and providing input into the budgeting process.

What do you need to succeed?

Knowledge & Skill Requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field (Equivalent years of experience in a substantially similar industry may be considered in lieu of a degree).

Generally, ten years of progressive experience with three years of managerial experience.

Strong organizational and communication skills.

Proficient PC skills.

The foundation skills you will need in this position are:

Knowledge & Application:

Manager with expert knowledge in a specialized field and broad knowledge of several related disciplines within a function.

Requires broad theoretical knowledge or advanced knowledge of a highly specialized field and their interrelationships.

Directs the application of existing principles and guides the development of new policies and ideas.

Problem Solving:

Understands complex issues and their application.

Problems are unclearly defined, and sufficient information may not be available.

Requires conceptual thinking to understand complex issues and their implications.

Solutions may need to be devised based on limited information.

Implementation of solutions often requires a longer-term view and consideration of multiple perspectives and future implications.

Interaction:

Adapts style and uses persuasion in delivering messages.

Issues may be complex and audience perspectives will be divergent.

Information is nonroutine in nature.

Develops recommendations to sell ideas or services.

Frequently advises others on complex matters.

Impact:

Impact is generally limited to the achievement of medium-term goals; may be required to translate strategic plans into operational plans and guide their execution.

Develops and manages operational initiatives to deliver tactical results.

Focuses the team on achieving medium-term goals.

Accountability:

Accountable for meeting short- to medium-term targets which impact the department/ discipline.

Provides input into the budgeting process and may be a sub-departmental budget holder.

People management responsibility for pay reviews, performance management, and resource planning.

Accountable for resourcing decisions. Will typically have no exit decision responsibility for professional employees.

What do we offer you?

At VF, we know you expect as much from us as we do from you. That is why we make a commitment to support and grow our people. We offer extensive development and growth opportunities for your current and future positions, a competitive compensation package, and a strong benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

Our commitment extends beyond this and into your daily work life. We strive to foster a diverse and inclusive culture based on respect, connection, and authenticity. Our focus on DEI is at the foundation of who we are and what we do.

To learn more about VF’s benefits package, follow this MyVFBenefits.com and click “Looking to Join VF”.

To learn more about VF’s Diversity and Inclusion efforts, go to www.vfc.com.

Now WE have a question for YOU.

Are you in?

Hiring Range:

Incentive Potential: This position is eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details of the additional compensation eligibility for this position will be provided during the recruiting and interview process.

Benefits at VF Corporation: You can review a general overview of each benefit program offered, including this year's medical plan rates on www.MyVFbenefits.com  and by clicking Looking to Join VF? Detailed information on your benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

Please note, our hiring ranges are determined and built from market pay data. In determining the specific compensation for this position, we comply with all local, state, and federal laws.

At VF, we value a diverse, inclusive workforce and we provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. All qualified applicants for employment will be considered without regard to an individual’s race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, marital status, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws.  If you are unable to submit your application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at peopleservices@vfc.com. VF will reasonably accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities to the extent required by applicable law.

Pursuant to all applicable local Fair Chance Ordinance requirements, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, VF will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.