Hybrid Ethical Trade Manager – 12 Month Maternity FTC

at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty

• Job title: Ethical Trade Manager – 12 Month Maternity FTC
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, London, United Kingdom

About the role

• Ethical Trade Manager managing the Ethical Trade Programme within Sustainability for Charlotte Tilbury Beauty. Ensuring compliance and responsible sourcing practices across the supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Management of the Ethical Trade Programme and our approach to responsible sourcing, in line with our overarching Sustainability strategy and to meet stakeholder expectations.
• Lead Supply Chain Human Rights Due Diligence development and implementation including scheduling and managing social audits, building relationships with suppliers, ensuring all supplier sites have completed self-assessment questionnaires, identifying and prioritising audits on a risk basis.
• Provide subject matter expertise on Ethical trade, Modern Slavery and Human Rights Due Diligence, requirements (current and emerging) and reporting expectations in regions where the business operates.
• Partner with Procurement, Quality, NPD and other internal business partners on new supplier selection, onboarding, ongoing management and responsible exit.
• Input key findings on Supplier ethical performance into balanced scorecards and provide recommendations and guidance on appropriate next steps.
• Work with our commercial teams to ensure that we are aligned with our brand partners and customers contractual expectations in relation to supplier labour standards and monitoring requirements.
• Provide reports on on-site due diligence efforts at Sustainable Business Committee and prepare case studies and supporting inputs for reporting, including preparing the drafts for the Modern Slavery Statement.
• Map Internal and External Stakeholder Expectations regularly.
• Stay informed of key issues in sector, compliance, market trends and campaigns.
• Regularly engage with external stakeholders, e.g. consultants, certification bodies, industry groups, NGOs.
• Manage relationships with third party partners and auditing providers.
• Develop and deliver internal training on Ethical Trade and Modern Slavery to deepen understanding and help teams recognise how it relates to their role.
• Engage with Supply Chain and Commercial teams to build understanding and development of responsible purchasing practices including introduction of KPIs and supplier feedback.
• Identify key areas required for Suppliers to build awareness and knowledge of best practice.
• Create a supplier training plan and work with internal teams and where applicable external providers to develop content such as toolkits, webinars and workshops.
• Track attendance and collect feedback to assess impact and changes that the training has created.
• Support other Sustainability related tasks such as managing ethical projects, tailoring documents, policies and preparing presentations for committees and vendor summits.

Requirements

• Experience in an Ethical Trade, Responsible Sourcing or a Supply Chain Social Compliance role.
• SA8000 or similar social auditor trained.
• Experience of investigative social audits and worker engagement activities.
• A good understanding of relevant principles (UNGP, OECD), industry standards and audit methodologies (e.g. ETI Code, Sedex SMETA, amfori BSCI) and preferably also ILO Conventions and Dhaka Principles.
• An understanding of the salient human rights risks in the Cosmetics and Skincare industry.
• A good understanding of current regulations and best practice in Human Rights Due Diligence and expectations of reporting requirements such as the UK Modern Slavery Act.
• An understanding of broader Sustainability and Supply Chain related issues.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Ability to engage a range of audiences and communicate complex issues in an easy to understand manner.
• Able to travel both in the UK and internationally if required.
• Experience working with NGOs and CSOs to advance changes and improvements for workers.
• Experience with external organisations such as the Ethical Trade Initiative or Fair Labor Association.
• A good understanding of the SDGs and human rights impacts of climate change.
• Skills in other languages.
• Experience of Sustainability reporting requirements and standards e.g. CSRD and CSDDD.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with an additional day to celebrate your birthday.
• Inclusive parental leave policy that supports all parents and carers throughout their parenting and caring journey.
• Financial security and to work with you on our allocated dog friendly days and spaces and not to forget our generous product discount and gifting!