Senior Ethical Trade Executive - Global Audit Assurance

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Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability at Primark

We're responsible for keeping an eye on Primark’s social and sustainability commitments as part of our Primark Cares strategy. As part of our 130- strong team, you'll collaborate with suppliers, champion ethical practices, and make a tangible difference. All with the purpose of ensuring we meet social compliance, environmental sustainability & legislative requirements, industry initiatives and standards.

ETES is responsible for keeping an eye on Primark’s social and sustainability commitments as part of our Primark Cares strategy.

We’re a team of 130 colleagues working across more than 10 key sourcing markets. We work with our suppliers to ensure we meet social compliance, environmental sustainability requirements, legislative requirements, and industry initiatives and standards.

The successful candidate will play a key role in risk assessment and reporting matters, ensuring functional compliance with Primark’s Global Social Audit Assurance Programme.

What You’ll Get

People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle:

1. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays, and if you want, you can buy five more days to enjoy
2. Your day your way: an opportunity for a 2 pm early Friday finish and a subsidized cafeteria.
3. Primark Perks – Discounts with some local partner businesses to our offices

What You’ll Do:

In your role, you’ll collaborate with different people across a range of departments, markets and skill sets. Here’s a flavour of your day-to-day:

• To assist in the implementation of company policies and procedures on annual risk assessment and reporting matters, under the guidance of Head of GAA
• Play a key role in defining the requirements for the annual ethical risk assessment as well as incident-based risk assessments within ETES team.
• Play a key role in defining the reporting and legal compliance requirements within the ETES team and define how these impact the regional teams' activities.
• Identify risk and reporting related training and awareness needs and work with the regional leads to co-ordinate regional requirements, in collaboration with the Head of GAA.
• Develop and maintain dashboards to support the annual risk assessment process and reporting requirements in coordination with Central Support and Technology and Systems teams.
• Ensure operational procedures and guidance remain up to date, meet regulatory requirements and best practice benchmarks.
• Manage quarterly review process with regional teams, CS and CR hub documenting areas for development and agreed actions by each team and updating risk and reporting processes and performance accordingly.
• Assist in the ongoing monitoring of HRDD risks and any change in procedures due to changes in regional risk levels or legislation.
• Identify, report, and escalate risks/ issues with full support of Head of GAA to Regional teams, CR Hub

What You’ll Bring

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel that they belong, and they can bring their best selves to work – so please bring your authentic self, and other key experiences and abilities for this role in particular:

• Minimum 5 years in an ESG (Social) analytics role
• Ability to work with different stakeholders at peer and mid-senior level.
• Good understanding of HRDD legislation and guidance.
• Proficiency in social compliance and the management of processes
• Ability to use MS Office suite and the ability to design and develop reports.
• Ability to develop clear written procedures and narratives.

Ready? Great - because we can’t wait to see what you can offer. You’ll be joining a team of diverse, passionate, and talented individuals, collaborating on projects that will shape the future of our industry. If you’re excited about this role but don’t meet all the criteria, we still encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or another one, and our recruitment team can determine where your skills may fit in at Primark.

Apply now to be part of our future and we’ll promise to invest in yours!

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