Sustainability Lead, Emea

Sedex is a trusted partner for over 85,000 businesses worldwide, helping them create socially and environmentally sustainable supply chains . Through our platform's powerful data insights and expert guidance, we simplify the management, assessment, and reporting of sustainability performance.

Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable. Our Mission is to provide data-driven insights, accessible tools, and exceptional services that support businesses in improving environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance and outcomes.

The role

The role will provide subject matter expertise on how Sedex tools and services, with a strong focus on SMETA, help customers to meet global human rights and environmental due diligence processes. The role will actively support customer facing and new business teams as well as lead on customer engagement where product and sustainability expertise is required – from establishing new due diligence programmes to advising on how our products support customers to understand and address challenging environmental and human rights risks.

The role will also work with internal teams, customers and prospects and use their HREDD and customer knowledge to lead and manage projects to evolve existing products and develop new ones in response to customer and due diligence requirements.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide customers, prospects and internal teams with expert support on how Sedex products can be used within corporate environmental and human rights due diligence programmes.
• Act as the key touchpoint for customers, prospects and internal teams for queries on product methodology, in particular SMETA, and how best to use Sedex products and services within corporate HREDD programmes.
• Provide training on HREDD requirements and Sedex tools (risk assessment, the SAQs and SMETA) to customers and internal teams.
• Understand current and emerging ESG legislation, with particularly strong expertise on the EMEA regulatory landscape and how this impacts customers and Sedex to ensure that Sedex products are fit for now and future requirements.
• Provide practical recommendations on evolving Sedex products to best serve customers to meet regulatory requirements
• Working with the product teams, own methodology development and maintenance of new and existing products – providing leadership and expertise from initial concept to methodology development to customer roll out and ongoing updates.
• Content development to support the methodology, including supporting documents and overseeing training.
• Lead on the critical and ongoing engagement with EMEA members and key stakeholders to ensure that adoption of Sedex products continues, grows and delivers to stakeholder needs.
• Work in collaboration with the internal stakeholder teams – including Product, Audit Quality, Training and Global customer teams to deliver the most effective tools.
• Use data to measure the effectiveness of Sedex products against business KPIs and explore areas where Sedex tools can be strengthened further.
• Play a leading role in Sedex research that is wide ranging and forward looking to contribute to the strategic direction of SMETA or other products, identifying opportunities for innovation in products - research industry best practice and apply insight and trends to feed into product creation.
• Represent Sedex in external meetings and events, helping to build Sedex reputation and showcasing Sedex as a leading company within the ESG space. Advocate for Sedex products, particularly SMETA, to customers and prospects.
• Problem solve long-term sustainability challenges for customers and Sedex.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Skills

Our culture

At Sedex, our approach to business and culture is firmly rooted in our core values, which guide everything we do :

Our goal is to cultivate a workplace culture where everyone can thrive and be their authentic selves. We prioritize respect and inclusivity, ensuring that all employees feel empowered to contribute, collaborate, and excel. We celebrate diversity in all its forms, recognizing that our strength lies in the variety of experiences, perspectives, and ideas that each individual brings to the table.

By embedding these values into our daily practices, we ensure that we not only meet our business objectives but also create a lasting, positive impact on our people, our customers, and the communities we serve.

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