Responsible Sourcing Specialist Mr Price at Mr Price Group

Job Description

• The purpose of this role is to collaborate and implement as well as monitor and evaluate the business processes & practices to ensure that Responsible Sourcing is enabled.

Responsibilities
Compliance:

• Analysis, approvals and elevations of audits
• Analysis, approval and elevations of CAPS trackers. Management of on-boarding documents and process together with sourcing team.
• Uploading of social audits and CAPS (Corrective Action Plans) on the share drive.
• Analysis, approvals and elevations of BBBEE requests/updates to finance
• Factory spot-checking / visits (at least 50% travel entailed), ensuring all factories are compliant under the four pillars (Labour Standards, Health and Safety, Environment, business ethics) and are abiding to legal business compliancy. This will include conducting factory visits with sourcing team to establish social compliance and production capabilities of potential new suppliers.
• Development of corrective action plan with supplier based on factory audit. Monitoring of issues raised to ensure closure within agreed timeframes
• Conduct supplier meetings (face-to-face/online)
• DTR - FAMA compliance and validity
• DTR Updates and requirements and updates
• Labelling requirements - future proof (training / informing / fact finding)
• LOA's – assess legal requirements/product specs
• Constant communication with suppliers and their factories. Feedback to merchandise, sourcing and ethical trade team on risk profiles and trends in supply base where necessary.
• Keep abreast of international compliance standards and testing processes to maintain overall compliance in the following areas (Labour Law, Health and Safety, Environment and business ethics).
• Raise the level of awareness of responsible sourcing with roll out of ethical buying training across the divisions.

Supplier Onboarding and Relationship building:

• Management of suppliers and factories to derive risk profile of all suppliers in our supply chain.
• Create and maintain transparent supplier relationships in order to build long-term, sustainable improvements in our supply chain.

Training

• Ensure supply chain is monitored and evaluated and provide clear regular overviews to vendors of their compliance status and corrective action plans.
• Conduct training workshops for suppliers to address issues of non-compliance and visibility.
• Provide practical guidance and training for suppliers on driving sustainable improvements.

Qualifications

• Diploma in clothing management preferrably. (Occupational Health & Safety Training) Compliance Training (International and SA)
• 3-5 Years or more experience
• Clothing production management advantageous; International development, general business acumen; stakeholder engagement; supply chain compliance