Ethical Trading Manager needed for high-profile textile-based fashion-brand

This high-street fashion brand has a growing commitment to CSR. The company recognises the growing imperative of carefully measuring and managing its impact across all of its activities and is now recruiting a compliance office to take over the management of CSR and Intellectual Property (IP) issues within its supply chain across the EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) region. This is an exciting opportunity to gain an insight into the fashion industry’s factories and an understanding of the balance of commercial pressures within a CSR context. You can expect regular international travel across the EMEA region.

The job…
•    Taking ownership of the company’s CR programme in the EMEA region, by managing its supply chain and assessing and reporting on relevant CSR risks
•    Engaging with suppliers and driving compliance improvements throughout EMEA
•    Tracking and reporting the CR status of vendors/manufacturers.
•    Managing new factory / labour assessments and auditing programmes
•    Establishing relationships and engaging with other brands and where applicable broader stakeholders.
•    Helping to drive buy-in and impact of CR issues throughout the organisation.
•    Training factories in the region on the company’s Ethical Trading Policy
•    Assisting with intellectual property (IP) management at the factory level and providing general support to the IP team
•    Establish a network of service providers who can help factories achieve compliance and improve their businesses.  These providers should be able to identify root causes of ethical trading issues and provide relevant business solutions to these, such as productivity training, etc

You…
•    Are a qualified social auditor or have similar experience of devising an ethical trading approach
•    Have worked in a similar role for 3+ years.
•    Preferably have languages including any of the following: French, Arabic, Portuguese, Italian and/or Spanish.
•    Have worked with textiles/accessories brands and are aware of the key sustainability issues facing the industry.
•    Are driven, enthusiastic and enjoy travel, with a passion for ethics
•    Are autonomous, but also function well within a team

Location: London
Deadline: urgent
If you’d like to be considered for this position, please send us your details here, with the following job reference included in the subject: 10276 – EMEA CR Mgr