Senior Ethical Trading Manager

This job is brought to you by Jobs/Redefined, the UK's leading over-50s age inclusive jobs board.

Job Description

From Merchandising and Marketing - Product Development and Design, through to Supply Chain and Space Planning - our mission is to bring stylish wardrobe, home and beauty essentials to our customers via an easy, inspiring shopping experience online and in store that will delight them every time.

As we accelerate the transformation of our business to suit the changing needs of our customer, we need results-orientated colleagues that not only have a passion for our product, but a strong team working ethos, creativity and a healthy commercial aim to join us on our journey.

We have a 12-month FTC for a Senior Ethical Trading Manager to join the Team to Support the Head of Responsible Sourcing to deliver the Clothing and Home Ethical and Plan A strategies across the business, managing the sourcing office teams auditing programme, driving industry leading and customer focused social and ethical programmes.

To stay close to customers, our support teams are in the office three days a week as we believe that skills are developed through collaboration, and that spending time together makes us more creative and connected.

We have a flexible / hybrid approach - talk to us about part time or job share opportunities in this role, if it's meaningful to you, it's important to us.

What's in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that - playing your part to bring the magic of M&S to our customers every day. We're an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and ever evolving business built on doing the right thing and bringing exceptional quality, value, service to every customer, whenever, wherever, and however they want to shop with us.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special...

• After completing your probationary period, you'll receive 20% colleague discount across all M&S products and many of our third-party brands for you and a member of your household.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Discretionary bonus schemes awarded based on how you achieve you rpersonal objectives and our performance as a business.
• A generous Defined Contribution Pension Schemeand Life Assurance.
• A dedicated welcome to ourt eams with a tailored induction and a wide range of training programmes to develop your skills.
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices portal to maximise your financial and personal wellbeing.
• Industry-leading parental, adoption, and neonatal policies, providing support and flexibility for your family.
• Access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support for all colleagues including access to our 24/7Virtual GP and PAM Assist to support you and your family.
• A charity volunteer day to support a charity or cause you're passionate about through a dedicated day away from work.

What you'll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Liaise with regional compliance teams for regular progress updates on policy/strategy implementation, activity pilots and data collection, ensuring all projects and programmes are budgeted, tracked, monitored, measured and reported on.
• Drive implementation of Tier 1 & Tier 2 ethical compliance programme with:
• Assistant Ethical Trading Manager - documentation, internal comms, supplier comms, data quality, key KPIs
• Sourcing Office Senior Compliance Managers - monthly meetings, bi-annual strategy meetings
• Escalation process support - reinforcing policies with UK buying teams
• Work closely with internal stakeholders - Foods, C&H Sustainability, Plan A, Central Sourcing, Brands to provide C&H information and ensure consistency across all areas.
• Manage content development and/or reviewing content for:
• Internal reporting - monthly report, ESG committee, Audit and Risk Committee
• Information for external benchmarks / memberships

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Ability to manage and motivate regional compliance teams to support implementation of strategy and drive success
• Knowledge of and experience in the interpretation audits & the implementation of corrective actions for the resolution of non-compliances
• Ideally experience of working with NGOs, Trade Unions and multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Proven track record of managing and delivering innovative projects & programmes to resolve supply chain and worker ethical issues working with suppliers and external organisations
• Ability to build trust and liaise with customers and external stakeholders to maintain leading ethical retailer position

Everyone's welcome

We are ambitious about the future of retail. We're disrupting, innovating, and leading the industry into a more conscientious, inspiring digital era. We're transforming how we work together and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. Marks & Spencer strives to be an inclusive organisation, trusted, and admired by our colleagues, customers, and suppliers. Join us and make change happen.

We are committed to building diverse and representative teams, where everyone can bring their whole selves to work and be at their best. We support each other and work together to win together.

If you feel you'd benefit from any support or reasonable adjustments during any stage of the recruitment process, please don't hesitate to let us know when completing your application. This information will be picked up by our team, so we can try and put steps in place to help you be at your best through this process.

#LI-AC1 : #LI-Hybrid, #LI-Onsite