Primark Ethical Trade Executive, Monitoring

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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.

What You’ll Do as a Primark Ethical Trade Executive, Monitoring

Assess and seek ways to improve the performance of Primark’s supply chains in China with reference to the Primark Ethical Trade Code of Conduct for suppliers

• Contributes to the implementation of Primark’s Ethical Strategy for its suppliers and factories in China
• Monitors working conditions in new and existing factories as required
• Produces reports and communicates results in a timely manner
• Understands the legal framework that apply to Ethical Trade
• Manages and analyses data relating to the role
• Updates Primark system and databases as required by the role
• Provides insight, advice and solutions direct from the supply base
• Provides support to suppliers, factories and workers to support them through the approval process and thereafter
• Helps to communicate the company’s ethical trading requirements throughout the supply base
• Builds relationships that enable sharing best practices and improvements

What You’ll Bring  

Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued – so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular:

• Experience in corporate responsibility and ET
• Factory audit and remediation processes (e.g. SMETA, SA8000, APSCA)
• Excellent organisation/communication skills
• A self-starter who is results driven in a fast-paced environment
• The ability to build excellent relationships with key stakeholders & across the business
• IT literate (database, spreadsheets)
• High level of competency and accuracy in data management and analysis
• Able to cope with the complexity of Primark’s suppliers factories
• Able to cope with the diversity of cultures across the Primark ET Field Team
• Acts as the interface between supplier, factory, worker, buyer and other stakeholders to support the business
• Appreciates the bigger picture of the audit programme and its link into Primark as a business
• Ensures integrity of audit management system and database as relevant to countries in scope
• Ensures availability of ethically approved factories to Primark as relevant to countries in scope

Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours.

About Primark 

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 and 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.  

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