Ethics and Sustainability Compliance Officer

**About The Role**:
The purpose of the role is to manage, organise, conduct and monitor Arco’s ethical & sustainability compliance through robust governance frameworks, embedded business processes and strong internal and external stakeholder relationships. The role will also help increase supply chain transparency, identify issues and recommend plans for improvement to deliver a high standard of ethical compliance in Arco’s supply chain, therefore ensuring that Arco’s position is credible and defensible.

Key responsibilities include:

- Promoting Arco’s ethics and sustainability compliance programme with colleagues, suppliers and customers, liaising closely with colleagues involved in Arco’s wider ESG/sustainability programme
- Managing Arco’s ethical and sustainability compliance activities including maintaining the governance frameworks that underpin our compliance, managing the related budgets and acting as a key approved/adviser to the business on ethical and sustainability compliance (including through vendor and product approval processes)
- Delivering and evolving Arco’s ethical trade strategy action plan to safeguard workers in Arco’s supply chain and be responsible for preparing Arco’s annual Modern Slavery Statement
- Managing and co-ordinating Arco’s ethical and social audit programme to deliver maximum impact from available budget and resources
- Analysing audits, providing reports and recommendations to relevant stakeholders and co-ordinate interventions with suppliers and category management where necessary
- Managing and developing key external relationships relating to ethical/sustainability compliance and ensuring Arco maintains relevant third party accreditations and memberships (particularly ETI, EcoVadis, Textiles 2030) via audits, record-keeping, submissions, etc.

On top of working for the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, you’ll also receive:

- A competitive starting salary plus up to 10% annual bonus
- 32 days holiday inclusive of bank holidays, plus the option to purchase up to 5 more days
- 2 fully paid Community Volunteering days every year
- An excellent pension and 8x salary Life Assurance scheme
- A huge range of high street retailer discounts to help with cost of living via MyArco Perks
- Free, 24-hour access to our Employee Assistance Programme
- Access to our Learning Management System, to support your personal and career development
- Long-term service awards - we’re proud to have employees who have worked for us for 40 years

About you

The ideal Ethics and Sustainability Compliance Officer will be/have:

- Excellent knowledge of the ETI Base code and Modern Slavery ActGood social systems audit knowledge
- Good knowledge of health and Safety pertaining to factory environments
- Good understanding of wider sustainability issues
- Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Outlook, Word, Excel and Powerpoint
- Well developed written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work with minimum of supervision using own initiative
- Proven planning and organisational capability with excellent problem-solving skills
- Track record of clearly understanding and resolving customer requirements

**About Us**: As the UK’s leading integrated health and safety experts, Arco combine multi-channel distribution of 170,000+ products with specialist training, consultancy, and site services. Our history spans over almost 140 years, and we are at the start of an exciting new chapter, with ambitions to make us more profitable and sustainable, following the recent appointment of our new CEO.

We’re 100% committed to developing our business in a way that benefits our people, our customers, the communities we serve and the planet. We are now moving forward through a period of change as we begin to align our culture, behaviours and ways of working to drive performance and ensures we will succeed together and be rewarded for that shared success. Because It’s on us. To deliver. Together.

Our behaviours; Perform, Care, Collaborate and Deliver, create and turn in to tangible actions, and we’re now looking to recruit an Ethics and Sustainability Compliance Officer who can align to these behaviours, and help us achieve our goals.