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Senior Ethical Trade Executive - Labour Rights
Senior Ethical Trade Executive – Labour Rights
Because you can see how we can be better. Impact, your way.
Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact 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..
The purpose of this role is to strengthen the measurement, communication and effectiveness of Primark’s Social Impact initiatives and their contribution to Human Rights Due Diligence across the global supply chain through improved Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), specifically data management practices, processes and analysis.
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:
We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:
Thematic strategies and good practice:
Prepare content to support Primark’s internal and external communication and reporting obligations.
What you'll bring
We want every person in our organisation to feel like they’re making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you’ll need for the role:
Essential: -
Desirable: -
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business a over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.
If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility requests, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.
All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.
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Because you can see how we can be better. Impact, your way.
Ethical Trade and Environmental Sustainability and Social Impact 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..
The purpose of this role is to strengthen the measurement, communication and effectiveness of Primark’s Social Impact initiatives and their contribution to Human Rights Due Diligence across the global supply chain through improved Measurement, Evaluation and Learning (MEL), specifically data management practices, processes and analysis.
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:
- 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays, and if you want, you can buy 5 more.
- Hybrid Work with the opportunity for an early Friday finish and a subsidised cafeteria.
- Primark Perks – Discounts with some local partner businesses to our offices
We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities:
Thematic strategies and good practice:
- Contribute to, and in some cases lead, development of thematic strategies across labour right issues including but not limited to; social dialogue, grievance mechanisms, forced labour, gender-based violence, child labour, social protection. This may include:
- Review and update existing strategies and create new strategies as needed.
- Research thematic areas to inform strategies and good practice (e.g., summarising and analysing good practice frameworks and regulation, and their relevance to Primark’s HRDD programme).
- Facilitate the development and management of external partnerships to develop and progress thematic strategies (e.g., identifying partners, drafting terms of reference, project management).
- Progress Primark’s Human Rights policy agenda through research, advice and input, drafting, and managing internal and external consultations and sign-off.
- Establish, lead and support technical thematic working groups to facilitate collaboration across the wider Ethical Trade Team, including teams in sourcing countries.
- Engage Primark’s Ethical Trade team across HQ and sourcing countries to develop good practice aligned to sourcing priorities, international best practice and the global audit programme.
- Consult relevant external stakeholders to support development and deployment of the thematic strategies.
- Represent the HRDD-related work of the team in both internal and external meetings and fora, including onboarding new staff.
- Develop and disseminate best practice across the business through delivering training and guidance directly or through partners.
- Actively support country teams across the project management cycle to design and deliver effective programmes that support HRDD outcomes, (e.g., development of project approval forms, budget review, contract support, management of external partners
- Lead aspects of the governance and management of global remediation programmes in support of HRDD, particularly where this relates to the remediation of vulnerable groups.
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of activities to inform learning and further development.
- Actively manage, mitigate and communicate risk across each thematic workplan.
- Contribute to strategic oversight of thematic programmes as required.
- Drive efforts to build supplier engagement and ownership.
- Support the development of the ET team’s knowledge on technical areas.
Prepare content to support Primark’s internal and external communication and reporting obligations.
What you'll bring
We want every person in our organisation to feel like they’re making a key contribution. Here are some of the experiences and skills you’ll need for the role:
Essential: -
- Flexible and committed to supporting team goals.
- Practical experience of the development and implementation of programmes which support continuous improvement in supply chains.
- Strong knowledge of labour rights issues in global supply chains
- Technical knowledge and practical experience of good practice across the human rights due diligence. agenda, including remediation in supply chains.
- Knowledge of the emerging regulatory environment as it pertains to human rights due diligence.
- Experience of policy development.
- Experience and knowledge of global supply chain audit standards.
- Strong project management, research, reporting writing and presentation skills.
Desirable: -
- Relevant Masters Degree.
- Experience in supporting public reporting.
- Experience working in a human rights consultancy or NGO in relevant field.
- Experience working in countries in the global South.
- Experience of the development and application of Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) frameworks.
- Specialism in thematic key thematic areas across the labour rights agenda.
At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business a over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.
If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility requests, during your recruitment journey, such as extended time or breaks between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, mobility access, or assistive technology please contact your talent acquisition specialist.
All offers of employment are subject to background checks, including right to work, reference education and for some roles criminal, and financial checks. If you have any concerns please reach out to our talent acquisition team to discuss.
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