# Ethical Trade Manager

**Company**: Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
**Location**: London, London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: contract
**Salary**: Competitive Plus Benefits
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

As the Ethical Trade Manager at Sainsbury's, you will lead the development and execution of the Ethical Assurance Strategy within the GM, Clothing, and Grocery non-food supply chains.

You will work collaboratively with internal teams, supplier partners, and industry associations to drive compliance, continuous improvement, and ethical standards within these sectors.

With a focus on governance, risk management, and remediation, this role provides a platform for making a tangible impact in promoting ethical practices and driving positive change within a leading retail organisation committed to social responsibility and sustainability.

Key responsibilities include:

- Implementing a risk-based ethical audit programme

- Managing ethical incidents and allegations

- Ensuring timely resolution through corrective action plans

- Developing and maintaining supplier KPIs related to ethical standards

- Driving continuous improvement and supporting compliance to Sainsbury's minimum requirements

As an Ethical Trade Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a dedicated and experienced professional with a strong background in ethical trade and technical roles within the supply chain or retail industry.

You have expertise in social auditing, human rights, and environmental systems, and are committed to delivering and maintaining high ethical standards across non-food supply chains.

The successful candidate will have:

- Proven experience in an ethical trade or technical role within a retailer or supply-base environment

- Degree-level qualification in a science discipline, or equivalent relevant experience

- IRCA Lead Auditor qualification/skills in social auditing, with practical audit experience

- Knowledge of ethical trade and social auditing frameworks, including ETI, Sedex, and agency labour accreditation standards

- Training or knowledge in Human Rights, Health & Safety, or environmental management systems

- Experience of due diligence, fraud detection, and root-cause analysis, with effective planning, prioritisation, and communication skills

In return, Sainsbury's offers a competitive salary, plus benefits including:

- Colleague discount of 10% on shopping online and in-store at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat

- Pensions scheme and life cover

- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary

- Annual holiday allowance

- Private healthcare

- Season ticket loans

- Interest-free car loan of up to £10k

- Cycle to work scheme

- Health cash plans

- Salary advance

- Access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers

- Employee Assistance Programme

- Up to 26 weeks' pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks' pay for paternity leave

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## Skills

### Required
- IRCA Lead Auditor
- social auditing
- human rights
- environmental systems
- ETI
- Sedex
- agency labour accreditation standards

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