Ethical Co-Ordinator

We are seeking an Ethical Co-Ordinator to work with the Manager to drive Responsible Sourcing and facility level Sustainability within the Non-Food Sourcing team.

The successful candidate will have extensive interaction with the supply base, external and internal stakeholders engagement across the industry to uphold standards for Human rights and sustainable practices in line with Legislations.

Key responsibilities include:

• Accountable for administration relating to multiple audit programs to govern supplier factories being used and align with Asda standards for suppliers.
• Working with Asda RS Team identifying and remediating salient risk on Human rights within the supply chain.
• Ensuring reporting to industry stakeholders – ETI, ACCORD, BRC, HIGG, ZDHC in line with membership requirements.
• Managing the HIGG platform process, driving engagement with factories and liaising with the platform to report progress.
• Supporting sourcing and trading teams with supplier factory onboarding working across different platforms and systems.
• Timely critical path management of internal systems and external platforms.
• Delivering Monthly status roll-up of RAG factory status to monitor performance.
• Collaboration with sourcing partners globally to enable risk management, flexibility, and support training needs where required.
• Aligning with sustainability requirements for factories and facilities to drive environmental practices.
• Supporting the wider team with analysis and administration tasks as required relating to the factory base.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work with multiple stakeholders at different levels across industry and internally.
• Understanding of Human rights and Sustainability requirements and legislations.
• Ability to present and deliver training.
• Adaptable and flexible to work across systems and platforms.
• Knowledge of Excel is a must whilst identifying industry practice to drive change and improvement within programs.

In return, you will receive a competitive salary plus benefits, including:

• Discretionary company bonus
• Company pension up to 7% matched
• 15% colleague discount in store and online
• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans, and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline
• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks
• Excellent parental leave policies