Ethics and Compliance Officer

Ethics and Compliance Officer

At the forefront of modern farming and food production, G's is an incredibly exciting place to work, it's fast-paced, stimulating, and rewarding. G's is one of the largest fresh produce providers in the UK, producing over one billion packs of healthy products a per year. We work with the biggest food retail brands in the UK and Europe and want people who will do what's right for G's and our customers.

We have an opportunity to join our Ethical Compliance team as an Ethics and Compliance Officer to coordinate our supply chain due diligence.
This role is key in understanding not only the process and organisation of the supply chain but also the 'Why.'

Key Responsibilities of our Ethics and Compliance Officer:

• Support the delivery of responsible and ethical sourcing policies and implementation of supply chain strategies (for both new and existing suppliers).
• Effectively communicates with customers and suppliers, build sustainable relationships that support performance improvements, mitigates against risk and promotes opportunities.
• Liaise with internal teams, Procurement, Technical and Commercial, to ensure ethical compliance is achieved and in line with customer requirements.
• Conduct root cause analysis to identify and address supply chain issues, escalating your concerns in a timely manner.
• Manage the onboarding process for new suppliers, ensure they understand and meet the required ethical standards.
• Monitor suppliers to ensure the standards are kept up to date and highlight where there maybe issues.
• Process supply chain and social compliance data such as audit results and supply chain mapping using SEDEX (and a number of other platforms) to monitor supplier performance.
• Provide assistance and respond to queries relating to supply chain compliance, audits and database/platform issues.
• Develop reporting templates and systems, including annual reports, seasonal updates, board reports, monitoring against KPI's, supplier compliance and ethical auditing integrity outcomes.
• Supporting the wider team deliverables and projects to mitigate risk and embed ethical working practices across our businesses.
• Support the Ethics Team in wider key projects and initiatives to deliver against our Modern Slavery and Human Rights strategy

Candidate requirements:

• A passion for developing a career with Ethical Compliance, with a desire to learn and grow.
• Sound understanding of and experience in due diligence requirements in relation to reputational and ethical integrity.
• Proven analytical and organisational skills, with the ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously, whilst continuing to deliver accuracy, consistency, in a timely manner.
• Continuously keeping knowledge up to date on ethical supply chain developments
• Knowledge and experience of Data management and IT skills including Excel.
• Influencing skills
• Logical and systematic approach to the management of information
• Excellent communication (spoken and written) and negotiation skills.
• Build and maintains excellent working relationships

We are open to hearing from those who have experience in this space but also Graduates or those with a passion for learning more about Ethics.

What we offer:

• 31 Days holiday per year including bank holidays.
• 40 hours per week Monday to Friday
• Great Place to Work accredited.
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme available
• Cinema and Sky Store discounts
• Supermarket & other retailer discounts
• Health Cash Plan
• Holiday discounts
• Life assurance & income protection
• Employee referral scheme
• Employee Assistant Programme
• Cycle to Work
• Eyecare contributions
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme.
• Learning, development, and training opportunities including mentoring.
• Regular social and charity events
• Engagement in local community & early careers events
• Onsite health checks, & annual flu jabs
• Regular wellbeing sessions

We politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don't accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.