ASOS Hiring for Product Sustainability Partner at London Full Time

We’re ASOS. We blend our flair for fashion with our love of cutting- edge technology, but more importantly were interested in how we can bring the best out of you.

We exist to give people the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you’re free to be your true self without judgment, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

The Product Sustainability Partner at ASOS sits within the Sustainability team as part of the Commercial ESG Sustainability function. Working in the Sustainability Team is all about driving the ‘Fashion with Integrity’ element of the ASOS business strategy; from engaging the commercial teams on sustainable materials and processes, to supporting suppliers on their sustainability journey and engaging our customers through marketing and communication. You will work on product sustainability across both ASOS own brand and 3rd Party brands & be involved in multiple projects and workstreams.

Working closely with all the Commercial teams, ASOS own brands and suppliers, our mission is to ‘change our buying habits so our customers don’t have to’.

Our offices are based in Mornington Crescent, Camden. You will be hybrid working, coming into the office 3 times per week.

What you’ll be doing…

• Working with Established Product Sustainability partner, drive, support, and review material sustainability progress using insights from regular fibre tracking data.
• Support Established Product Sustainability Partner & Circularity Partner to integrate and improve material sustainability through both net zero and Circularity workstreams.
• Be point of contact for specific buying teams – deal with technical sustainable material queries, provide tailored training/technical support as required/requested, and build/maintain strong relationships with the teams to support delivery and uptake of more sustainable materials and associated processes.
• Work with Established Product Sustainability Partner to develop sustainable material guidelines for non-clothing product (e.g. footwear, accessories) and roll these out to relevant buying teams.
• Work with Established Product Sustainability Partner and Circularity Partner to investigate new innovations, and certifications across multiple product areas; including clothing, footwear, accessories & lingerie.
• Be Sustainability Team point of contact for selected sustainable product marketing stories/campaigns, reviewing and approving marketing copy and co-ordinating with marketing, buying and other teams as needed.
• Support sustainability team on development of new policies and processes to drive delivery of FWI throughout the business.
• Work with Established Product Sustainability Partner to monitor and improve coverage and accuracy of sustainable material certification, engaging with third party certification database providers, suppliers and internal teams as needed.
• Work with Established Product Sustainability Partner to integrate sustainable material certification processes efficiently within internal systems and end to end product development process.
• Support the Data Partner with the tracking and reporting of sustainable fibre uptake such as Cotton, Polyester and Viscose.
• Support the Data Partner as required on external reporting needs where needed for ASOS Plc website, annual Corporate Responsibility Report, Non-Governmental Organisation’s & marketing activities.
• Review/update external and marketing comms (e.g. web pages) relating to sustainable product (shared responsibility with Established Product Sustainability Partner).
• Manage relationships with selected external stakeholders related to sustainable product.
• Reviewing and supporting ASOS strategy for internal and external sustainability processes, systems, and tools to ensure these are robustly implemented throughout our suppliers working with ASOS own product and 3rd Party Brands.
• Regularly collect and present market intel with competitor’s activities and sustainability progress in a Retail facing manner to educate and engage.
• Put the customer at the heart of all that you do.
• Think creatively and be product minded with a good eye for fashion.
• Keeping up to date with industry developments and sectoral risks and adapting ASOS sustainability programme accordingly.
• Support internal Commercial and Marketing Teams to enhance the ASOS shopping experience for customers.
• Support a rigorous sustainability onboarding process for new production regions working alongside ASOS Sourcing Team & 3rd Party Branded Engagement Team.

Training:

• Support Established Product Sustainability Partner in updating ASOS training tools and programs to ensure sustainability, circularity & materials are integrated and efficient for internal and external use.

We’d love to meet, someone who…

• Is deeply passionate about sustainable fashion and can demonstrate successes in this area.
• Track record of managing multiple priorities and deadlines, and employs a flexible approach to challenging strategies and situations.
• Has held a previous role(s) in retail fashion sector – ideally 3-5 years, ideally with Sustainability experience.
• Strong experience of working in or with commercial/buying teams
• Robust project management experience and skills.
• Excellent people skills, including track record of working effectively with diverse multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience and ability to communicate complex/technical information to non-expert audiences including retail audiences and customers/public.
• Can work as part of a team as well as work on your own and make decisions.

Desirable skills/experience:

• Has experience with supplier engagement.
• Has experience with non-clothing fashion products (e.g. footwear, accessories)
• Material and fabric mill knowledge.
• Can support ambitious KPI’s analysing data to influence target and strategy setting.
• Can travel for work.
• Is building a strong external sustainability network ideally within fashion retail, keeping abreast of industry developments.

Additional Information

What’s in it for you…

• Competitive salary, pension, and private medical care scheme
• Hybrid working
• Performance related bonus
• Flex benefits allowance – which you can chose to take as extra cash, or use towards other benefits
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)

We will be reviewing all applications by 24th May 2022 – please ensure you apply within this window.

We want our people to be whoever they want to be. That’s why we’re committed to creating a truly inclusive culture at ASOS, but how’re we doing it?

Through our Fashion with Integrity strategy we are driving diversity, equity and inclusion across every aspect of ASOS and ensuring every ASOSer can be their authentic self at work. We want our people to be whoever they want to be, because we believe people who bring their best selves to work, do their best work.

We’re proud members of Inclusive Companies, are Disability Confident Committed and have signed the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter. We’ve also recently been placed 8th in the Inclusive Top 50 Companies Employer List too.

There are safe space employee networks and we host a monthly DEI events series to help support and celebrate all of our people. We are constantly listening to our people, evolving, changing and taking a flexible approach to how we make ASOS truly inclusive.