Divisional Manager - Compliance & Sustainability

Li & Fung; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 700,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Li & Fung in Hong Kong seeks a movement-minded compliance leader to drive social, ethical, and environmental standards across the apparel supply chain. The role focuses on risk remediation, audits, and collaboration with factories worldwide to ensure responsible sourcing.

You will lead investigations, manage client expectations in US/EU markets, and build capacity in partner facilities while traveling internationally to production sites and coordinating across time zones.

Qualifications

• Extensive expertise in factory audits for social, security and environmental compliance in apparel/knitwear.
• Strong knowledge of international labor standards and sustainability initiatives.
• Proven ability to lead global compliance programmes and teams.
• Experience collaborating with factories and addressing production-floor challenges to drive results.
• Excellent teamwork, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities.
• Well-organized with ability to manage multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Proficient written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

Responsibilities

• Risk Identification & Remediation: Lead efforts to identify social and ethical risks within the supply chain and develop remediation plans with factories worldwide.
• Compliance Account Management: Serve as the lead contact for US and EU customers to ensure compliance standards are met.
• Partner Engagement & Coaching: Guide factories, service providers and bodies to improve social, ethical, and environmental performance.
• Incident Investigations: Lead investigations into non-compliance and implement preventive measures and root-cause resolutions.
• Assessments & Audits: Conduct targeted audits with in-country teams to ensure audit findings translate into change.
• Communication: Report on compliance status, remediation progress, and KPIs to clients and stakeholders.
• Training & Capacity Building: Build compliance capacity within partner facilities through effective training.

Skills

Factory audits

Social compliance

Leadership

International travel

Cross-functional collaboration

English

Cantonese

Mandarin

Job description

Are you a movement maker? Are you seeking new and exciting career opportunities?

Here is what you need to know about the job:

What you’ll do is to……

• Risk Identification & Remediation: Lead efforts to identify social and ethical risks within our supply chain. Develop and execute concrete remediation plans, working directly with our factories globally to close immediate gaps and build long-term, sustained improvement.

• Compliance Account Management: Act as the lead point of contact for our US and EU customers, ensuring all compliance standards are strictly met.

• Partner Engagement & Coaching: Leverage your vendor/agent-side expertise to partner with our factories, service provides and professional bodies. Provide practical, hands-on guidance to factories, and formulate plans to push forward social, ethical and environmental compliance performance.

• Incident Investigations: Lead investigations into non-compliance issues. Drive the building and implementation of corrective and preventive measures and ensure root-cause resolutions are achieved effectively.

• Assessments & Audits: Collaborate with in-country teams to conduct targeted audits of our partner facilities. Focus on the efficacy of ethical sourcing and facility controls, ensuring that audit findings translate into actual change.

• Communication: Maintain accurate, transparent reporting for clients, internal and external alike, regarding compliance status, remediation progress, and key performance metrics, and recommendations.

• Training & Capacity Building: Build compliance capacity within our partner facilities through effective training, fostering a culture of accountability and high ethical standards throughout our collaborative supply chain.

You will thrive in the role if you ……

• Have extensive and solid expertise in factory audits over social, security and environmental/sustainability compliance, specifically within the apparel/knitwear industry.

• Possess strong knowledge of international labor standards, compliance frameworks, and sustainability initiatives.

• Demonstrate leadership in running global compliance programme and team

• Have extensive experience in collaborating directly with factories, deep understanding in challenges faced on production floor and proven record in driving results.

• Uphold and promote excellent teamwork, communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with a range of stakeholders.

• Demonstrate strong analytical and strategic thinking abilities.

• Well organized individual, able to manage multiple tasks, strong problem-solving skills, able to meet deadlines.

• Command good written and spoken English, Cantonese and Mandarin.

• Be at ease to travel internationally to production facilities, and participate in virtual meetings across time zones.

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As an equal opportunity employer, we shall consider all applicants regardless of gender, age, religion, marital status, race, sexual orientation, disability, disease, pregnancy, or trade union and/or political affiliation, and disregard all factors deemed inappropriate by local law and the International Labor Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.