Ethical and Sustainable Specialist

London, England, United Kingdom

12/4/2024

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an Ethical & Sustainability Specialist to join our team in London. The role reports into the Head of Quality and Sustainability with management responsibility for the Ethical & Sustainability Assistant.

It is a varied role that covers ethical sourcing, product sustainability, and our work to Net Zero.

Hybrid working: 3 das in the London, Victoria Head Office and 2 days remote.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Managing the Sustainability Assistant.
• Maintaining up to date supplier ethical data through SEDEX/ supplier management.
• Maintaining acceptable in-date SMETA/ BSCI supplier audits and driving continuous improvement.
• Improving supplier mapping beyond direct manufacturing factories, focusing on high-risk supply chains.
• Writing the annual modern slavery report.
• Managing supplier on-boarding, ensuring new suppliers ethics align with ours.
• Compiling ethical risk assessments and supplier scorecards to facilitate remediation focus.
• Delivery of ethical and sustainable training internally and to suppliers.
• Supporting sustainable development initiatives and networking with third-party experts in their field to deliver opportunities.
• Maintaining compliance to sustainable product and packaging certifications/ schemes.
• Collating sustainable data for company reports and marketing, ensuring they meet expected standards of accuracy.
• Collation of Green House Gas data and supplier engagement to drive reductions.
• Keeping up to date with industry best practice and legislation.
  
  

We’d love to meet someone with

• Experience as a Sustainability Specialist reporting into a Sustainability Manager or Head Of, or ready for the step up from Sustainability Junior Specialist.
• SEDEX ethical system management including reporting.
• Essential skill: Competent at reading SMETA/ BSCI factory ethical audits and managing non-conformities with an international supply chain.
• Working knowledge of commonly used sustainable certifications and brands – GOTS/ OCS/ GRS/ RCS/ RDS/ Lenzing/ FSC/ etc.
• Advantageous to have experience of managing at least one team member, to a formalised performance management framework.
• Advantageous to have a basic understanding of Green House Gas reporting/ strategies for Net Zero.
• Advanced Excel skills including formulas, macros and X-look ups.
• Excellent data capture and data management skills.
• Excellent communication, influencing and networking skills.
• Organised and analytical with excellent attention to detail.
  
  

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Holiday allowance
• 50% staff discount & 25% for family and friends
• Pension scheme
  
  

In 1997, we launched Mountain Warehouse to make the outdoors accessible to everyone by offering value for money product and exemplary customer service.

The outdoor industry had become very jargon heavy and we wanted to create a brand that would cater to our mothers and our neighbour’s kids as well as seasoned professionals who understood the technology.

Our expansion since then has seen the brand grow and the product evolve, but the small family business that makes MW special has remained. Great product is at the heart of everything we do.

As we expand internationally we employ a team of dedicated diverse people to offer our valued customers the best possible experience when visiting our stores, shopping online and putting our range through its paces.

Welcome to our journey.