Corporate Responsibility Program Manager

Columbia Sportswear • Portland, OR

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Columbia Sportswear's Corporate Responsibility team (CR) drives companywide initiatives focused on empowering people, sustaining places and in enhancing responsible business practices. Our work includes climate management, sustainable and responsible manufacturing, chemicals management and global community impact. This role focuses on Social Responsibility which specifically supports our program that ensures that workers in our supply chain are being treated fairly and ethically and are working in safe conditions.

Requirements

• 10-12 years of supply chain corporate social responsibility experience.
• Social compliance, manufacturing, auditing, project management, training or equivalent apparel or footwear industry experience.
• A broad understanding of industry-wide issues and global trends that impact the corporate social responsibility function
• Ability to create impactful reports through data visualization
• The ability and flexibility to conduct complex interpersonal interactions, develop un-tried solution to problems, make decisions and operate independently and balance multiple competing priorities.
• Bachelor's degree, preferably in social sciences, economics, business management, manufacturing, or industrial engineering.

Nice To Haves

• Post graduate study in Corporate Responsibility, business administration or supply chain management preferred.

Responsibilities

• Drive data integrity and accuracy with the global Social Responsibility team and build reports that are comprehensive, digestible and visually impactful.
• Oversee the Corporate Responsibility database.
• Proactively monitor system performance, user experience and system effectiveness.
• Engage business partners to define business requirements, needs and project timelines and ensure smooth communication and timely delivery of database enhancements.
• Enhance transparency and public reporting on Columbia’s supply chain and supply chain performance.
• Maintain and update our Supply Chain Transparency Map to provide accessible and relevant and information.
• Deliver high level reporting to senior leaders on social responsibility performance, trends and risk areas which help to shape strategy and focus.
• Collaborate with Columbia’s global field teams on factory worker empowerment programs
• Manage the social responsibility requirements of our licensor and collegiate partners.

Benefits

• 401k plan plus a generous company match
• medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account
• an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services)
• EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services
• extensive wellness benefits
• employee discounts
• a generous time off program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior