Description: Responsible Sourcing Manager
Role Description:  Develops and maintains a strategic partnership with the Apparel garment sourcing and fabric teams to elevate Responsible Sourcing performance of tier two business partners and the business category as a whole.  Drives RS goal work within the Apparel T2 for garment laundry, garment printing and vendor sourced fabric. 

Category Support and Supplier Elevation

• Partner collaboratively with RS Apparel T1 category manager to align on crossover business partners and ensure unified RS message to external and internal partners

• Identify tier 2 training opportunities and work with both internal and external partners to ensure business partners have access to training materials 

• Partner with Sourcing and Fabric teams to align on priorities and goals for the division

• Collaboratively determine priority business partners and understand near and long term growth plans for the business including business partners and countries of production

• Prioritize business partners and regions of priority for tier 2 oversight onboarding program and partner with analysts to nominate suppliers

• For priority business partners, work to understand their factory matrix and identify the RS strengths and weaknesses of the factory matrix

• Work closely with business partners to understand their tier 2 oversight programs, monitor audit results, and help them improve over time

• Work with overseas team members to help drive business partner elevation and gain the necessary insights to provide Sourcing and Fabric partners with timely and relevant updates

• Define and implement oversight and elevation programs for Responsible Sourcing to improve supply chain performance, transparency and accountability  

• Review audits results for both social and environment assessments and distill learnings into insights and recommendations for business partners, Sourcing and Fabric leaders

• Provide regular, proactive updates to Sourcing and Fabric leaders on priority business partners and any business partners/factories that are not performing well

• Elevate all major non-compliance issues to Sourcing leaders, RS leaders and Fabric leaders as necessary 

• Work with RS goal leads to lead relevant RS goal-related efforts within your division 

• Ensures fabric teams and tier 2 factories understand RS program and procedures

• Other tasks as may be required

AAFA Laundry safety program

• Act as the primary operational liaison to the AAFA Laundry Safety program
• Represent Target on AAFA calls
• Determine when and how Target should participate in industry initiatives relating to tier 2

Issue Management and Crisis Response

• Manage issues as they arise with appropriate internal and external partners 
• Manage all Immediate resolution and Severe audit results

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