Ethical & Environment Compliance Specialist

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting compliance with all ethical and environment legislation, regulation and reporting requirements, including modern slavery, greenhouse gas and sustainability standards (EUDR/ ESPR/ etc).
• Maintaining accurate and auditable records and certifications for our ethical and environment performance.
• Overseeing ethical audits, supplier risk scores, and corrective actions to meet ethical targets, mitigate risk and ensure continuous improvement.
• Managing supply chain mapping beyond Tier 1 to achieve business targets for percentage of supply chain mapped and engaged.
• Working with communications teams to ensure the brands compliance with international green claims codes.
• Reporting on ethical and environmental metrics to support internal and external briefings and decision-making.
• Managing supplier onboarding, upholding policies and ensuring new suppliers ethics align with ours.
• Overseeing our RDS audit annually ensuring we maintain certification.
• Maintaining an understanding of existing and evolving best practice, legislation and reporting requirements, supporting business alignment with evolving standards.

• Managing and developing the Ethical & Sustainability Assistant.
• Collaborating with operational teams to de-risk our supply chain to embed positive changes and minimise ethical risk.
• Influencing positive change to support delivery of our environment/ sustainable roadmap.
• Promoting an understanding of ethical and environmental processes to ensure consistent adherence to our polices and regulation.
• Supporting development of new sustainable initiatives to facilitate opportunities and enable progress to material and circularity targets.
• Maintaining our relationships with thirds party experts and supporting future collaboration.

We would like to meet someone who is

• Experience as an Ethical and Environment Specialist reporting into an ESG Manager or Head Of with an understanding of the ethical and environment challenges within a retail environment. However, candidates who meet the role competencies from outside the retail industry will also be considered.
• Essential skill: Competent at reading SMETA/ BSCI factory ethical audits and managing non-conformities with an international supply chain.
• Strong knowledge of SEDEX ethical system including SEDEX advanced reporting capabilities.
• Strong knowledge of ethical and environmental legislation and reporting standards.
• Working knowledge of commonly used sustainable certifications and brands – GOTS/ OCS/ GRS/ RCS/ RDS/ Lenzing/ FSC/ etc.
• Good understanding of Green House Gas reporting/ strategies for Net Zero.
• Advantageous to have experience of managing at least one team member, to a formalised performance management framework.
• Strong analytical skills and data driven mindset, with the ability to conduct research and summarise information.
• Highly organised and effective communicator capable of influencing internal and external stakeholders to drive positive impact.
• Advanced Excel skills including formulas, pivot tables, and X-look ups.