ABOUT MEMulti-product Senior Ethical Sourcing & Sustainability Manager, with a technical manufacturing background & extensive experience working in UK retail. A proven track-record of setting up high performing multi-product ethical sourcing & technical teams in both newly established and growing companies. Having worked in both manufacturing and retail HQ I have an ability to quickly understand supply chains enabling both product traceability and transparency of working conditions. Played a key part in setting up a successful in-country sourcing office in China. I keep a strong commercial perspective while decision making. Have a solid understanding of ethical sourcing programs and am a key stakeholder in ethical trading working groups. Actively engaged with ETI; ILO SCORE; SEWA; WaterAid; IJM; Anti-Slavery International; Better Buying; Verisio & Castor to deliver training & capacity building programmes. I am hands-on and passionate about what I do and am genuinely motivated by being able to deliver a strategy that drives real improvement.
Listed skills include Retail, Sourcing, Fashion, Textiles, and 16 others.