At Mountain Warehouse we are passionate about the great outdoors and minimising the impacts from our operations. We are looking for a passionate Ethical and Sustainable Assistant to join our team in London. It is an entry level role which would suit a university leaver with an ethical, environmental, sustainable qualification or an admin professional with a passion for delivering positive change.
· Maintaining supplier ethical compliance via SEDEX.
· Reviewing factory ethical audits and engaging with suppliers to close non-conformities
· Collating proof of sustainable claim certificates and mitigating risk.
· Tracing our high-risk supply chains to tier 5.
· Providing ethical, sustainable, and greenhouse gas reports to key stakeholders.
· Collating supplier score cards and assisting with supplier ethical performance meetings.
· Keeping up to date on industry advances and making recommendations for developments.
· Supporting development of sustainable attributes to meet international green claims codes.
· Supporting to identify opportunities to eliminate, minimise, or recycle packaging and materials.
· Raising awareness of correct recycling methods to meet recycling targets.
· Taking responsibility to oversee a greenhouse gas reduction project.
· A passion for all things ethical and sustainable with an inquisitive pro-active nature.
· Appropriate university degree or at least one year’s experience in an administrative role.
· Good awareness of ethical and sustainable topics, organisations, and systems.
· Organised and analytical with excellent attention to detail.
· Accurate administration and data management.
· Good communication and influencing skills capable of supporting complex projects.
· Team player capable of working on their own initiative to meet deadlines.
· Ability to apply formulas and look-ups in Excel.