Social and Ethical Auditor

Stoneburgh Properties LLC; Wolverhampton; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Social & Ethical Auditor to join their dynamic team. This home-based role, requiring travel across the UK, offers a unique opportunity to contribute to social compliance and ethical standards within the consumer products sector. You'll be responsible for conducting audits, guiding team members, and ensuring adherence to high standards and regulations. With a commitment to diversity and sustainability, this role promises to be both rewarding and impactful. Join a forward-thinking company that values your expertise and supports your professional growth.

Benefits

Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement

Company Pension Plan

Life Assurance Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and Wellbeing Programmes

Free parking

Worldwide career opportunities

Rewards for dedicated service

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and APSCA status CSCA required.
• Proven experience as a social compliance auditor in key schemes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct social audits and supervise audit team members.
• Ensure audit processes meet Eurofins CPA standards.

Skills

Social compliance auditing

Excellent English communication

Management systems knowledge

Strong personal skills

Driving License

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

APSCA status CSCA

Tools

Client platforms and tools

Job description

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

Eurofins Consumer Products Assurance (Eurofins CPA) offers comprehensive supply chain assurance to the consumer product industry through factory audit, product inspection and training. Data intelligence solutions from Eurofins Assurance OnLine, an online platform developed by Eurofins Assurance, support buyers and suppliers to achieve compliance and continuous.

Please note this is a home-based role with travel required across the UK. As such, we welcome applications from across the UK.

Working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm.

To cope with rising demand, we are looking for a Social & Ethical Auditor in the UK to complete social audits. As regulations evolve related to supply chain due diligence, opportunities for credentialed professionals promise to only continue to expand.

Duties include:

• Conduct social audits assigned by the office.
• Assign audit processes to audit team members according to the prepared audit agenda.
• Supervise and support audit team members in order to help their development, through guidance, leading by example, on-site and classroom training, answering questions and creating development plans.
• Ensure audit processes are conducted in line with Eurofins Consumer Products Assurance (Eurofins CPA) and client’s expectations and to the highest standards.
• Ensure reports are accurate, complete, and submitted on time.
• Follow Eurofins CPA Code of Ethics in all activities.
• Adhere to Eurofins CPA policies and procedures, including but not limited to HR, Integrity, QA, IT, EHS.
• Follow Eurofins CPA record keeping procedures.
• Follow clients’ instructions in using client’s platforms and tools.
• Follow the Eurofins CPA escalation and cascading procedure.
• Achieve job objectives set by office management.
• Complete other job-related tasks assigned by audits supervisor/manager.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• APSCA status CSCA.
• Proven experience as Social compliance auditor in key schemes such as Amfori BSCI, SMETA by Sedex, Coc and SLCP, others.
• Knowledge in management systems, social compliance, and environmental management systems is a plus but not mandatory.
• Excellent command of English both written and spoken.
• High ethical values.
• Strong personal skills with good verbal & written communications.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Benefits:

• Enhanced Annual Leave Entitlement.
• Additional Annual Leave Purchase scheme.
• Annual Leave Sellback Scheme.
• Additional Annual Leave at Employees set service dates.
• Company Pension Plan.
• Life Assurance Scheme (4 times annual salary).
• Healthcare Cash Plan (6+ months service).
• Enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity Schemes.
• Employee Assistance Programme – 24/7 confidential.
• Health and Wellbeing Programmes.
• Free parking.
• Worldwide career opportunities.
• Rewards recognising the great work our employees deliver, their dedicated service, and celebrating special life events.

What Happens Next:

Our people are the backbone of what we do, so it's incredibly important we find the right individuals to join us. As a potential new recruit, you'll be invited to meet the team in the form of an assessment centre or a staged interview process dependent on the role and its requirements. This will give you the opportunity to see what working for Eurofins is really like and enable us to get to know your key skills and strengths.

Your Data:

As part of any recruitment process, the company collects and processes personal data relating to job applicants. The company is committed to being transparent about how it collects and uses that data and to meeting its data protection obligations.

Closing Date:

We reserve the right to close or extend this position depending on application numbers. Therefore we would urge candidates to submit an application as early as possible.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, please be aware that if you do not receive a response within 4 weeks of the vacancy expiry date, unfortunately, on this occasion your application has been unsuccessful.

We support your development! Do you feel you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity! Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity, being an Equal Opportunity Employer. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Sustainability matters to us! We are well on our way to achieving our objective of carbon neutrality by 2025, through a combination of emission reduction and compensation initiatives. We encourage our laboratory leaders to make sustainable changes at their local level, and in addition to their initiatives, we also count on our dedicated carbon reduction team to help us achieve this goal!

Find out more on our career page: Eurofins Careers