About the job Located in Richemont Headquarters, Bellevue, Switzerland, and reporting to the Group Leather Responsible Sourcing Project Manager, this new role is pivotal to support the Fashion & Accessories Maisons in bringing up responsible sourcing practices. By ensuring the application of Responsible Sourcing policies and procedures, the Textile Project Manager will contribute to protect the reputation of our Maisons.
Responsibilities
Supply Chain risk profile, based on Environmental, Social, Governance – “ESG” – criteria
Risk mapping – suppliers activities, subcontractors and more generally of any supply chain stakeholders up to the raw material source
Continuous evaluation of suppliers and subcontractors in coordination with our Maisons
Risk mitigation actions
Escalation and reporting mechanisms
The mission is to build, implement and manage the Textile supply chain network and tools to support Maisons and entities to mitigate ESG and compliance risks, the latter driving also sourcing intelligence activities. In addition, the Textile Project Manager will support the Group Leather Responsible Sourcing Project Manager in building a resilient textile responsible sourcing management system, to answer the requirements of upcoming sustainability regulations.
Textile Supply Chain expertise, Maisons and entities coordination, as well as data management will be key to assess and secure the risks relative to the Textile upstream supply chain.
The scope of the role does include all Richemont Maisons sourcing and/or producing finished products with textile related materials, animal, plant or synthetic based. This corresponds to our Fashion & Accessories Maisons – Alaïa, AZ Factory, Chloé, Dunhill, Purdey and Peter Millar.
HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?
Establish an accurate, reliable textile supply chain database and KPI’s
Build and maintain the textile database including all suppliers and raw materials due diligence related information
Build and deploy a set of responsible sourcing KPI’s, leveraging of the leather supply chain KPI’s, adding tailored indicators if any for textile
Participate in the definition of textile supply chain risk profile
Ensure data security and confidentiality
Coordinate supply chain audit plan and mitigations actions
Prepare the textile supply chain audit plan
Follow-up and ensure audit plan execution
Coordinate ESG and Compliance actions related to suppliers for all Maisons and entities
Animate the Group Textile supply chain community
Support the Group Leather Responsible Sourcing Project Manager in defining and establishing the textile supply chain governance (committees, escalation, etc.)
Organize specific workshops to define guidelines and best practices, including ESG audit upgrades, new referential (certifications, etc.)
Organize periodic meetings with Maisons to update strategies and communicate about risk evolution, audit results, and ongoing actions
Prepare meeting minutes and provide support to presentations
Other Transversal Related Tasks
Collaborate and share expertise with the Environment Responsible Sourcing team to enhance emission factors data
Support the creation of an antenna in the USA to connect with Peter Millar
HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCCESS WITH US?
Minimum 3-5 years experience in quality, procurement and/or in auditing companies in the space of textile supply chains
Fluent in English and French, Italian is a plus
Capacity to coordinate (global vision of the project, delegation, communication)
Relationship skills and ability to work in a transversal environment
Autonomy and ability to structure his/her own work and the work of others
Analytical skills
Rigor and reliability
Excellent oral and written communication skills
Readiness to travel
WHAT MAKES OUR GROUP DIFFERENT?
We value freedom, collegiality, loyalty, and solidarity
We foster empathy, curiosity, courage, humility, and integrity
We care for the world we live in
YOUR JOURNEY WITH US
If your application is selected, our Talent Acquisition team will reach out to you for an introductory call
In case of mutual interest, you will have an interview with the hiring manager, and possibly additional stakeholders
As a final step, you will meet with our HR Business Partner
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