Human Rights and Sustainability Compliance Lead

**Title**:Human Rights and Sustainability Compliance Lead**:

- Location: Chadstone, Victoria, AU**About us**:
At Officeworks we make bigger things happen. Our customers, our team, and our community are our heart and soul. And if our brilliant people have taught us anything, it is that we can do all kinds of incredible things, each and every day.

Fast paced. Innovative. Inspiring. With close to 10000 team members and a national footprint of more than 168 retail stores Australia wide - we’re focused on delivering a wide range, low price and great service. We’re about inspiring new ideas and thinking outside the box. We’re about kicking goals, having a laugh and pushing each other. We are about being rewarded and supported. We’re about teaching a customer something new and supporting the community. We’re about making a difference.

**About the role**:
Are you passionate about human rights and sustainability? Consider yourself a excel spreadsheet guru?

Join our ESG and Corporate Affairs Team as our Human Rights and Sustainability Lead and make a real impact This role is crucial to helping our suppliers comply with our Human Rights and Sustainability requirements. You will deep dive into our product ranges, managing ethical sourcing, forestry, human rights and sustainable materials information and identifying areas for improvement.

This is an incredible opportunity for someone that has a real passion for sustainability and human rights, coupled with the expertise and knowledge to make this role their own. Bring your drive, passion, and resilience along with your experience with excel and we will provide you with a supportive working environment a great team who love what they do.

We believe in flexibility, and this role offers the opportunity to work in a hybrid working arrangement with two days in the office and the rest of the week from home.

**As our Human Rights and Sustainability Lead, you will**:

- Support ongoing supplier reviews, auditing and reporting on supplier performance and integration within the business
- Review factory audits to identify any breaches against the Officeworks ethical sourcing policy. Work with suppliers to develop a corrective action plan and monitor progress
- Support and educate suppliers around Officeworks requirements, providing supplier onboarding support
- Work with suppliers to remediate detected non-conformances and maintain the desktop remediation tracker and file remediation evidence for auditing
- Contribute to business compliance reporting, including monthly and annual reports and representation at key stakeholder meetings to provide updates and insights

**About you**:
You are inquisitive, resilient, and able to build relationships with both internal and external stakeholder alike. You are a natural problem solver with a strong desire to make an impact in sustainability. In addition, you will:

- Proven experience in a similar role with a strong background in sustainability, human rights and/or ethical sourcing (min 2 years +)
- Experience coordinating a broad ranging and dynamic ethical sourcing portfolio
- A good understanding of international best practices for social compliance
- Be an excel expert with strong experience with VLOOKUP, pivot tables and formulas a must
- You can communicate with confidence and influence
- Strong data and problem solving skills
- Have an incredible attention to detail and an eagerness to learn

**Our culture**:
It’s all in a day’s work when you’re part of the Officeworks community - where you’re not defined by who you are, but what you can do. We celebrate our teams’ uniqueness by offering the below to the Officeworks family:

- An inclusive, diverse, and supportive environment.
- Flexible working arrangements to best support your individual needs.
- A key focus on wellbeing and safety.
- Generous discounts at Officeworks, Geeks 2 U, Bunnings, Kmart, Target and Catch.
- Ongoing training and development opportunities to progress your career.
- Industry leading Growing Families policy.

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Officeworks is a** ‘Circle Back Initiative’ **employer - we commit to respond to every applicant.

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