Title: Ethical Sourcing & Sustainability Specialist
Company Name: Leading Multinational Buying House
Vacancy: 1
Age: At least 26 years
Job Location: Dhaka (Uttara)
Salary: Negotiable
Experience:
Who We Are: A leading multinational apparel buying hub and exporter with a vision to deliver world‑class service, quality solutions, and value‑added services to end products for the textile industry on a global scale. With headquarters in Hong Kong and corporate offices in Dhaka, Bangladesh, we operate design, sales, and sourcing offices in the UK, China, Hong Kong, and India.
Why Ethical Sourcing & Sustainability Matters: We believe in ethical business practices and are committed to international human rights standards and compliant practices throughout our supply chain. To fulfill our responsibility to the globe and our customers, we have established a dedicated Ethical Sourcing & Sustainability department.
Role Overview: As a member of the Ethical Sourcing & Sustainability team, you will ensure social compliance due diligence through evaluations, gap analysis, remediation plans, and training across the supply chain. You will also be responsible for advancing human rights practices, technical safety (structural, fire, and electrical), and management system development.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct regular due diligence evaluations to ensure compliance with local legislation, company Code of Conduct, and customer requirements.
Communicate with manufacturing facilities to develop compliance practices through root cause analysis, gap analysis, and corrective action plans.
Collect relevant information from suppliers and update customers accordingly.
Train personnel on local legislation, international human rights standards, and customer Codes of Conduct.
Required Expertise:
Professional:
2-5 years of social compliance auditing experience (Certification Body / Trading Hub / Brand / Retailer)
SA8000 Certification (preferred)
Academic:
Graduation from a UGC‑approved university
Post‑graduation in environment or fire safety (preferred)
Industrial:
Knowledge of RSC, SMETA, BSCI & WRAP
Knowledge of Better work, Worldly & ZDHC (preferred)
IT:
Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel & PowerPoint
Adobe Illustrator (preferred)
Personal Traits:
Fluent communication in English
Self‑motivated and proactive
Willingness to travel frequently within the country