Sustainability Admin - Ethical Sourcing

B&Q plc; Eastleigh; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading home improvement retailer in Eastleigh seeks a Sustainability Administrator. In this role, you will provide essential administrative support for the Sustainability team, focusing on vendor onboarding and compliance with ethical sourcing policies. Ideal candidates should have a keen interest in sustainability and strong administrative skills, with a hybrid working model offering flexibility. A competitive salary and benefits package is included.

Benefits

Pension scheme

ShareSave options

6.6 weeks holiday

Employee Assistance Programme

Wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Keen interest and/or experience in sustainability/ethical sourcing.
• Strong proficiency with MS Office, especially Excel.
• Ability to learn new IT systems.

Responsibilities

• Maintain vendor and product information.
• Manage workflow tasks related to ethical sourcing.
• Provide administrative support for the Sustainability team.

Skills

Interest in sustainability

Administration skills

Data management skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Tools

MS Office (Excel)

Job description

Overview

Sustainability Administrator - Ethical Sourcing 11 Month FTC Up to £29,000 + Pension + BUPA + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working. We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they'll love. Join us as a Sustainability Administrator and you'll be a big part of this. At B&Q we have a hybrid approach to working to increase flexibility in when and where we work. For this role we are looking for someone to be able to work from our head office 3 days a week.

What’s the job? As a Sustainability Administrator you will be responsible for providing key admin support for the Sustainability team, particularly focusing on vendor and product on-boarding with regards to B&Q\'s ethical sourcing requirements. You will also be responsible for providing support to vendors to help maintain compliance against our ethical sourcing policies and continuous improvement programmes. Also, supporting the Ethical Sourcing team to improve B&Q\'s Human Rights Due Diligence programme will be another area of your focus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain vendor, supplier and product information on relevant platforms and systems.
• Manage ethical sourcing workflow tasks, tracking from creation to completion through relevant processes.
• Liaising with vendors - helping onboard new vendors and products by ensuring suppliers possess the information needed.
• Liaising with the Commercial Category Team to progress approval of new vendors and products to B&Q.
• Assist in updating factory and compliance information on team trackers.
• Assist with the routine review and validation of vendor/product status.
• Screen manufacturing site ethical compliance data to determine if it meets basic policy and regulatory requirements.
• Escalate issue of potential vendor/product non-conformance to appropriate team members.
• Provide administrative support relating to any review and auditing programmes.
• Assist in delivering corrective actions identified by audits.
• Support general administration across the sustainability team.
• Provide support for meetings, including scheduling, preparing agendas, maintaining action logs, meeting notes or minutes and distributing materials.
• Where required, contribute to activities within the wider team to support in delivering its objectives effectively on time.

Requirements

• Keen interest and/or experience in sustainability/ ethical sourcing.
• Administration, and data management skills and experience.
• Computer literate: MS Office in particular Excel.
• Ability to learn new IT systems and data platforms.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Advanced communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Proactive self-starter.

What’s in it for me?

As part of a great team, you\'ll be valued for who you are. We\'re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business. We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!