Responsible Sourcing Manager -Sustainability, Worldwide Grocery Stores, Private Brands, APAC
Amazon•Published 26 days ago•First seen 1 days ago
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
1. Ensure that vendors understand and adhere to Amazon’s Supply Chain Standards, including ensuring that all active factories have an active, approved SR audit
2. Support and manage remediation of human rights risks, including the former S-team goal to remediate all Alert-level findings
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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)
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
1. Ensure that vendors understand and adhere to Amazon’s Supply Chain Standards, including ensuring that all active factories have an active, approved SR audit
2. Support and manage remediation of human rights risks, including the former S-team goal to remediate all Alert-level findings
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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