Coordinator, Product & Packaging Sustainability

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Job Title: Coordinator, Product & Packaging Sustainability
Primary Purpose: Tapestry's 2025 Corporate Responsibility strategy, The Fabric of Change, unites teams across our businesses to meet our 2025 Corporate Responsibility Goals and a shared objective: to create a modern luxury company of the future that balances fashion authority with meaningful, positive change. The Coordinator, Product & Packaging Sustainability will support Tapestry's efforts around marketing claims substantiation, life cycle assessments, and regenerative agriculture initiatives. The role will also focus on environmentally preferred packaging, building cross-functional relationships to integrate initiatives into business practices, and help coordinate related data and reporting requirements.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in sustainabilityto...

• Partner with the Manager, Product Sustainability, and legal and compliance teams to help manage the voluntary environmental marketing substantiation process across all brands with a focus on clear and substantiated claims
• Create materials to educate internal teams, streamline processes across global brands, and support internal procurement teams in following appropriate standards and certifications schemes, like the Global Recycled Standard (GRS), the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), etc.
• Support Tapestry's chain of custody workstreams, including systemization of document collection and brand level certification to industry standards, by partnering with cross-functional teams
• Contribute to Tapestry's global packaging initiatives through environmentally preferred packaging advisement, data coordination, and regulation review
• Assist with internal and external stakeholder engagement to support the maintenance of ESG programs, initiatives, and project plans.
• Research and benchmark external industry and global apparel trends and conduct competitive analysis in order to identify white space opportunities to make recommendations
• Assist in annual corporate reporting for product and packaging initiatives

The accomplished individual will possess...

• Excellent grasp of environmental and climate-related concepts and issues, including life cycle assessments, science-based targets and other emerging trends and concepts.
• A willingness to learn and work flexibly in a fast-paced environment.
• An ability to be organized and detail-oriented with ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to foster and maintain collaborative relationships with local and off-shore teams.
• An ability to handle sensitive and confidential company materials.
• Initiative and the ability to work independently with direction as well as on a team
• Direct experience with packaging materials or innovations and/or recycling schemes preferred

An outstanding professional will have...

• 1+ years of experience in Sustainability/Corporate Responsibility, ESG, Business and/or Supply Chain management; equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, etc.). Data management and data visualization a plus Creative and analytical problem-solving skills, able to formulate a point-of-view without perfect data
• Strong research, analytical and writing skills; clear verbal and written communication.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, including ability to synthesize data and information and offer recommendations/solutions.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale
  and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Tapestry, Inc. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.
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Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or [email protected] #LI-HYBRID #LI-2655
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Work Setup: Hybrid
BASE PAY RANGE $64,000.00 TO $75,000.00 Annually
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