Regulatory Compliance Manager

Job Summary The Regulatory Compliance Manager monitors and assesses laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry standards affecting KEEN as a global footwear company and leads the cross-functional work needed to achieve and maintain compliance. This role will also touch on the operations of KEEN's affiliated companies around the world, such as Fuerst Group, Rofu, and Chrome  partnership with Legal and business subject-matter experts, this role translates legal and regulatory requirements into executable compliance programs, including clear work plans, accountable owners, milestones, deadlines, policies, processes, controls, training, and audit-ready evidence.

Serving as a hands-on project leader, the position brings disciplined organization, tracking, and persistent follow-through to drive matters from identification through verified completion, provide clear status reporting, and escalate obstacles and risks to the Senior Director, Legal in a timely manner. The position leads through influence and does not have direct reports.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without cause.

Essential Functions Description Leads  cross-functional implementation of new and existing regulatory requirements from issue identification through verified completion by defining scope, owners, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and sustainable operating processes.

Monitors and assesses new and changing laws, regulations, enforcement trends, and industry standards globally that may affect KEEN; maintain a central tracking system for material regulatory developments, assigned compliance obligations, upcoming changes, implementation deadlines, and responsible business owners; and provide timely, business-focused summaries of risks and recommended next steps.

Manages the overall regulatory compliance portfolio, including prioritizing initiatives, maintaining project plans, tracking decisions, dependencies, risks, and open actions, providing clear status reports, escalating obstacles, and persistently following through to completion.

Builds and maintains scalable compliance infrastructure, including policies, procedures, controls, playbooks, workflows, systems or automation, records-management practices, and audit-ready evidence.

Coordinates ongoing compliance programs and gap assessments in assigned areas such as privacy and data, product safety and testing, labeling and packaging, environmental and EPR requirements, green claims, AI, marketing, supply chain and import/export, and employment regulations.

Designs and coordinates risk-based compliance communications and training, maintain accessible guidance, and prepare concise metrics and reports for Legal and business leadership.

Partners with Legal, functional and regional teams, and external specialists such as consultants or outside counsel to resolve issues, support audits or information requests, coordinate corrective actions, and embed compliance into business workflows. Design and coordinate risk-based compliance communications and training, maintain accessible guidance, and prepare concise metrics and reports for Legal and business leadership.

Qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Legal Studies, Public Policy, Political Science, Business Administration, Compliance, or a related field required.

Minimum five (5) years  of professional experience relevant to the responsibilities of the role, such as regulatory compliance, legal operations, risk, government service, legislative or regulatory affairs, public policy, or cross-functional program or…