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Traceability Analyst Job in Seattle, VT
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Seattle, VT
Full-time | Operations
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Who We Are:
At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet. We want our business — which also happens to be our passion — to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no “I” in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic.
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
Your job:
The Traceability Analyst will play a key role in Brooks commitment to deepen its supply chain transparency – integral for Brooks accomplishing its People and Planet commitments. With an eagerness and passion for understanding complex and constantly changing supply chains, this role will lead Brooks’ supplier mapping and traceability program that will provide the foundation to ensuring Brooks can effectively execute key programs across responsible sourcing, sustainability, legal, and trade compliance.
With a focus on ensuring Brooks has an accurate view of its manufacturing supply chain, including the collection of complete and accurate data and understanding relationships between suppliers, you will also lead material and product traceability programs that will drive compliance to Brooks’ materials and sourcing policies and global laws and regulations. This role is part of the Corporate Responsibility team and works collaboratively with legal, trade compliance, sourcing, and product creation teams.
Your Responsibilities:
! Responsible for Brooks’ implementation and execution of a supplier management and traceability tool.
! Partner with Director, Corporate Responsibility to define the roadmap to evolve Brooks’ supplier mapping and traceability program, including relevant supplier data collection and traceability, to meet the evolving needs of key internal stakeholders.
! Responsible for the execution of supplier discovery and mapping.
! Manage the new supplier onboarding process working with internal teams and suppliers to ensure all steps of the process are complete and supplier complies with Brooks’ standards.
! Own the collection and maintenance of supplier data and pertinent information.
! Responsible for leveraging supplier mapping and data to generate reports and insight to inform other business departments.
! Responsible for executing traceability program for high-risk countries and materials, including mapping raw material origin, to drive compliance with Brooks’ material and sourcing policies and global regulations.
! Responsible for developing and executing an approach for product level traceability to meet global regulations and Brooks’ transparency vision.
! Lead efforts to visualize Brooks manufacturing supply chain.
! Own Brooks public factory list ensuring it is accurate and regularly updated to reflect Brooks manufacturing supply chain.
! Through the supplier management and traceability tool, responsible for substantiating more sustainable material claims such as recycled content to enable consumer facing messaging.
Qualifications:
! Bachelor’s degree in corporate responsibility, sustainability, environmental studies strongly preferred.
! 3+ years’ experience in sustainability, supply chain, or relevant work, preferably within the footwear, apparel, or textile industry.
! Good understanding of footwear and apparel manufacturing supply chains.
! Experience in building supply chain maps using software tools preferred.
! Excellent quantitative analytical skills and a passion for data driven approaches.
! Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another.
! Strong project management and organizational skills.
! Ability to create strong and meaningful relationships with stakeholders including internal teams, suppliers, and any other 3rd party organizations to drive change.
! Self-motivated with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
! Proficient skills in MS Office suite and other data analysis and visualization programs.
! Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
! Unwavering demonstration of Brooks’ corporate values: Runner first, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There’s No “I” In Run, Keep Moving.
At Brooks, we celebrate diversity & equity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment, and encourage people of all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills to apply. Brooks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, the presence of a sensory, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military status, marital status, pregnancy or child birth, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, political ideology, or any other non-merit based factors.
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At Brooks, we believe a run can change a day, a life, the world. Everyone who works here is a key part of our obsession to make the best running gear on the planet. We want our business — which also happens to be our passion — to be a place where everyone feels welcome and comfortable being themselves. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together, and drives our success. We live this culture daily through our brand values: Runner First, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There is no “I” in Run, and Keep Moving. This means we always solve for the runner, do what we say we will, give it our all, are generous with our humanity, and find a way to keep moving every day, because joy is kinetic.
Are you ready to help create something extraordinary?
Your job:
The Traceability Analyst will play a key role in Brooks commitment to deepen its supply chain transparency – integral for Brooks accomplishing its People and Planet commitments. With an eagerness and passion for understanding complex and constantly changing supply chains, this role will lead Brooks’ supplier mapping and traceability program that will provide the foundation to ensuring Brooks can effectively execute key programs across responsible sourcing, sustainability, legal, and trade compliance.
With a focus on ensuring Brooks has an accurate view of its manufacturing supply chain, including the collection of complete and accurate data and understanding relationships between suppliers, you will also lead material and product traceability programs that will drive compliance to Brooks’ materials and sourcing policies and global laws and regulations. This role is part of the Corporate Responsibility team and works collaboratively with legal, trade compliance, sourcing, and product creation teams.
Your Responsibilities:
! Responsible for Brooks’ implementation and execution of a supplier management and traceability tool.
! Partner with Director, Corporate Responsibility to define the roadmap to evolve Brooks’ supplier mapping and traceability program, including relevant supplier data collection and traceability, to meet the evolving needs of key internal stakeholders.
! Responsible for the execution of supplier discovery and mapping.
! Manage the new supplier onboarding process working with internal teams and suppliers to ensure all steps of the process are complete and supplier complies with Brooks’ standards.
! Own the collection and maintenance of supplier data and pertinent information.
! Responsible for leveraging supplier mapping and data to generate reports and insight to inform other business departments.
! Responsible for executing traceability program for high-risk countries and materials, including mapping raw material origin, to drive compliance with Brooks’ material and sourcing policies and global regulations.
! Responsible for developing and executing an approach for product level traceability to meet global regulations and Brooks’ transparency vision.
! Lead efforts to visualize Brooks manufacturing supply chain.
! Own Brooks public factory list ensuring it is accurate and regularly updated to reflect Brooks manufacturing supply chain.
! Through the supplier management and traceability tool, responsible for substantiating more sustainable material claims such as recycled content to enable consumer facing messaging.
Qualifications:
! Bachelor’s degree in corporate responsibility, sustainability, environmental studies strongly preferred.
! 3+ years’ experience in sustainability, supply chain, or relevant work, preferably within the footwear, apparel, or textile industry.
! Good understanding of footwear and apparel manufacturing supply chains.
! Experience in building supply chain maps using software tools preferred.
! Excellent quantitative analytical skills and a passion for data driven approaches.
! Keen attention to detail in planning, organization, and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all the pieces fit together and affect one another.
! Strong project management and organizational skills.
! Ability to create strong and meaningful relationships with stakeholders including internal teams, suppliers, and any other 3rd party organizations to drive change.
! Self-motivated with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
! Proficient skills in MS Office suite and other data analysis and visualization programs.
! Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
! Unwavering demonstration of Brooks’ corporate values: Runner first, Word is Bond, Champion Heart, There’s No “I” In Run, Keep Moving.
At Brooks, we celebrate diversity & equity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment, and encourage people of all backgrounds, perspectives, experiences, and skills to apply. Brooks is proud to be an equal employment opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, the presence of a sensory, physical or mental disability, medical condition, military status, marital status, pregnancy or child birth, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking, political ideology, or any other non-merit based factors.
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