TJX

Assistant Vice President Product Compliance & Safety

Posted on: 14 Feb 2021

Marlborough, MA

Job Description

Discovery is at the heart of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores, which include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, Winners, Homesense, and TK Maxx. With variety comes plenty of happy surprisesour environment is ever-changing, and thats just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Ready to Discover Different?

Posting Notes: Marlborough || MA

As the Assistant Vice President, Product Compliance you will be responsible for leading TJXs Product Safety and Compliance function, helping us to enable the purchase and flow of billions of dollars in goods!

You will coordinate efforts to build, maintain, and improve upon processes and procedures to promote and verify the purchase of compliant and safe goods of our global businesses. Developing and leading a team responsible for gathering, preserving, and distributing proof of compliance where applicable, and to cease the distribution or sale of noncompliant goods.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

* Develop and coordinates merchant training, vendor relations, and processes, procedures, and technology intended to ensure the merchandise TJX procures complies with all relevant laws, regulations, safety requirements, and internal or external standards such as environmental sustainability claims in all relevant geographies, including U.S., Canada, and Australia, and all the states, provinces, and territories therein.
* Stays current on legal and business developments that impact the design and scale of the product-safety and compliance program.
* Manages, coaches, and mentors direct reports and develops them for future growth within the function and organization
* Is responsible for performance and professional development of Associates within the product-compliance function
* Instills and maintains focus on continuous improvement regarding all aspects of product compliance.



Position Requirements:

* 8+ years of product safety and compliance experience, with a minimum of 3 years supervisory/management experience.
* Excellent judgement, leadership, interpersonal, communication, organization, prioritization, technical, process-improvement, influencing, and leadership skills.
* Significant experience overseeing and leading compliance and safety requirements for a diverse array of products, ideally with global reach.
* Experience championing and leading organizational change and development, with a focus on instilling a culture of continuous improvement.
* International experience a plus.

Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think youll find that its so much more than a job. When youre a part of our global TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people dedicated to finding great deals and fantastic style. Best of all? They have a lot of fun doing it.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff (Competitive salaries: check. Solid benefits: check. Plenty of room for advancement: of course). Its our way of empowering you to make your career here.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

Posting Notes: Marlborough || MA

Nearest Major Market: Boston
Job Segment: Compliance, Safety, Claims, Business Process, Service, Legal, Insurance, Management

TJX

Framingham, MA

The TJX Companies, Inc. operates as an off-price apparel and home fashions retailer. It operates through four segments: Marmaxx, HomeGoods, TJX Canada, and TJX International. The company sells family apparel, including footwear and accessories; home fashions, such as home basics, furniture, rugs, lighting products, giftware, soft home products, decorative accessories, tabletop, and cookware, as well as expanded pet, kids, and gourmet food departments; jewelry and accessories; footwear; and other merchandise.

It operates stores under the T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Winners, HomeSense, T.K. Maxx, and Sierra Trading Post names, as well as operates e-commerce sites tjmaxx.com, tkmaxx.com, and sierratradingpost.com. The company operates approximately 4,300 stores in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria, the Netherlands, and Australia. The TJX Companies, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.