Responsible Sourcing Manager -Sustainability, Worldwide Grocery Stores, Private Brands, APAC

Worldwide Grocery Stores (WWGS)

is a global retail organization dedicated to
revolutionizing the grocery shopping experience through enhanced efficiency,
quality, and affordability. At its core, WWGS Private Brands (PB) serves as a
crucial strategic division that develops, sources, and manages proprietary food
products for both Whole Foods Market (WFM) and Amazon-branded lines across all
geographic regions.

Operating as a unified force, Private Brands supports both North American and
International operations by leveraging cross-functional expertise in product
development, sourcing, sensory evaluation, commercialization, and quality
assurance to bring products to market end-to-end across all WFM and Amazon
channels. This collaborative structure enables WWGS to deliver high-quality,
innovative products while maintaining operational excellence across diverse
global markets—rapidly scaling its food portfolio without compromising on
quality standards or process efficiency.

WWGS PB APAC team manages “byAmazon” and Whole Foods Market Exclusive brands
including “365”. We lead the growth of our Food PB assortment. We develop and
execute the food PB expansion and growth strategy to support broader Grocery
efforts across Core Consumables, Amazon Fresh, Quick Commerce, and Sub-Same Day
Grocery by working across multiple channels and partner teams.

At Amazon, you'll work alongside the latest AI and GenAI tools that are
increasingly woven into how teams operate: from AI-powered capabilities that
accelerate decision-making, to Generative AI that helps you focus on work that
truly matters. You'll have opportunities and resources to develop AI fluency at
your own pace, with continuous learning built into the culture.

Key job responsibilities

WWGS PB APAC team is looking for a talented Responsible Sourcing Manager for
Sustainability including Social Responsibility. The successful candidate is able
to thrive in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment and could effectively
communicate with various stakeholders to resolve challenges. They could also
show excellent judgment and instincts in decision making and could proactively
and continually improve the level of knowledge about Amazon’s business, its
platform, and relevant technologies.

The position is primarily responsible for (1) creating efficient processes and
systems to drive Amazon’s Supply Chain Standards for responsible sourcing (2)
end to end manage all supplier base, driving resolution of alerts (3) building
vendor capabilities for more efficient sourcing. The Responsible Sourcing
Manager should have direct experience with responsible supply chain management
and an ability work cross functionally with sourcing managers, commercialization
and development teams, WW Central Sustainability team, and other supply chain
professionals within our rapidly growing and evolving business.

A day in the life

• Ensure that vendors understand and adhere to Amazon’s Supply Chain Standards,
  including ensuring that all active factories have an active, approved SR audit
• Support and manage remediation of human rights risks, including the former
  S-team goal to remediate all Alert-level findings
• Own supplier performance improvement on human rights through SR’s performance
  scoring framework – this includes setting goals for score improvement, working
  with vendors to enroll in programs addressing human rights risk areas, and
  integrating SR performance scoring into business processes
• Partner with SR to develop and advise business teams on key SR issues that
  might impact sourcing or production plans, and provide appropriate mitigation
  recommendations
• This position requires to speak directly with suppliers to support them on
  the SR issue (alert), which requires the capability of both Japanese and English
  language (both verbal and written communication)

Basic Qualifications:

• 4+ years of compliance program management, legal,
  governance, audit, risk/loss prevention, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of managing food safety and quality in a large-scale retail or
  manufacturing environment experience
• Knowledge of retail food code and regulations governing grocery retail at
  local, state, and federal levels
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent
• Experience handling confidential information
• Experience interacting with local food safety regulators
• 4+ years of cross functional project delivery experience
• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience defining program requirements and using data and metrics to
  determine improvements
• Capability of both Japanese and English language (both verbal and written
  communication) at business level

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional auditing qualification, or similar risk or compliance credentials
• Experience with SQL and Excel
• Experience managing, analyzing and communicating results to senior leadership

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