Quality Programme Coordinator

**About Sedex**

More than 85,000 businesses across the world have made Sedex their trusted partner in creating a more socially and environmentally sustainable supply chain.

From our platform’s unrivalled data insights to our team’s expert guidance, Sedex makes it easy for companies to manage, assess and report on sustainability performance.

Our Vision is to be a leader in making global supply chains more socially and environmentally sustainable.

Our Mission is to supply data-driven insight through the most accessible tools and services. We engage with companies and our community to continuously improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) outcomes.

**The role**

Manage the Audit Quality Programme day to day activities, performance monitoring, and report the outcomes to key stakeholders. Support the delivery of the Audit Quality Programme and the evolvement of the programme in the future.

**Key responsibilities**
- Support the embedment of Audit Quality Programme into business operations.
- Develop a mechanism for monitoring and improving AAC performance against set KPI’s
- Support the execution of sanctions in line with agreed policy and provide strategic reviews
- Monitor the performance of audit companies and in collaboration with internal teams and key stakeholders
- Coordinate the execution of AQP on site activities (Management Audits and Shadow Audits) and report the outcomes to key stakeholder
- Participate in the development of the strategy to evolve the programme
- Manage key internal and external stakeholder to provide business insights on gaps, low performance, corrective action plan and preventive actions
- Communicate trends, in risk and control issues to management on the results on the ongoing reviews
- Collaborate with the Responsible sourcing team and SMETA product manager to feed the AQP programme findings into the development of SMETA and other Sedex Products

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**
- Strong knowledge of auditing methodologies and creating/managing Risk Management Programs e.g. SMETA, BSCI, RBA, and WRAP, etc
- Experience in the embedment of a Responsible Sourcing programme
- Experience of working with social compliance Audits from multiple perspectives, SMETA audit experience is preferred
- Strong facilitation skills to drive stakeholder engagement and relationship management
- Understanding/demonstrate experience in beyond audit/continuous improvement
- Working knowledge of the APSCA competency framework
- Experience working with different stakeholders
- Auditor qualification or experience in conducting audits would be preferable
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Excellent Project management skills
- Research skills and analytical skills
- Demonstrate the Sedex values - service orientated, quality driven, collaborative a simplifier and take responsibility

**Our culture**

At Sedex, we are passionate about helping businesses become truly sustainable and ethical across their operations and supply chains. We believe that all people have the right to a safe workplace, where they are treated with respect and paid fair wages, free of harassment and discrimination. We strive to achieve these beliefs through inclusive behaviours that embody our values of being collaborative, responsible, transparent, quality driven and committed to service excellence.

We want everyone to feel they can be themselves and thrive at work - in every country, in everything we do, every day. We are focused on providing a culture characterised by inclusive everyday behaviours built on a foundation of respect and appreciation for diversity in all its forms.

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