Senior Specialist, Responsible Sourcing

VF Corporation

Senior Specialist ensuring factories comply with VF standards while supporting environmental sustainability and worker rights initiatives. Collaborating with teams and stakeholders for responsible sourcing advancements.

Posted 5/22/2026full-timeSan Salvador • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The role of the Senior Responsible Sourcing Advancement associate encompasses diverse responsibilities, including ensuring factories comply with VF standards, supporting safety and worker rights initiatives, driving environmental sustainability, and contributing to worker and community development efforts.
Collaborates with VF factories, regional offices, cross-functional teams (including the factory compliance team), NGO partners, and various stakeholders to facilitate enhancements across all responsible sourcing domains.
Preparing factories for audits, addressing safety issues, investigating labor concerns, promoting environmental management systems, providing training, and participating in community needs assessments.
Work with factories to prepare for and meet VF’s compliance standards, support factories to elevate compliance with VF audit standards to improve their audit designations, and communicate with vendors and factories on existing or new requirements.
Collaborate closely with the VF Safety Team and Safety Program Providers, offer assistance to in-scope factories in addressing safety concerns, and aid in coordinating both on-site and remote visits from third-party assessment, training, and remediation firms.
In collaboration with the VF Worker Rights Team and external stakeholders, support on incident investigation and remediation of labor issues or allegations.
Drive improved environmental sustainability performance at factories by proactively working with factory management to build Environmental Management Systems.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years Corporate Social Responsibility or Social Auditing experience or equivalent combination of relevant work experience and education.
Post-graduation in labor laws, environmental engineering, safety engineering, chemical engineering will be advantageous.
Expertise in using Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, Outlook and Web skills.
Subject Matter Expert In: Labour, Health, Safety, and Environmental auditing.
Laws, Regulations and Industry Standard of the region.
Laws & Regulation of Labor & Employments; Knowledge of human and labor rights.
Availability to travel and work in Hybrid mode: 45% time working in Vendor’s sites, 40% travel, 15% remote.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Remote work options

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Hard Skills & Tools

Corporate Social ResponsibilitySocial AuditingLabor lawsEnvironmental engineeringSafety engineeringChemical engineeringEnvironmental Management SystemsAudit standardsIncident investigationRemediation

Soft Skills

CollaborationCommunicationTrainingProblem-solvingStakeholder engagement