Due Diligence Lead

Your responsibilities

• Create and lead the Reckitt approach to engage suppliers around Environmental Due Diligence in line with CS3D
• Engage key suppliers around building environmental capability and enhancing Environmental Due Diligence
• Oversee the Human Rights Outsourcing Programme conducting site audits to ensure consistent compliance with applicable Health & Safety, Environment and Labour legislation and Reckitt’s Sourcing for Sustainable Growth Policy and supporting standards.
• Prepare comprehensive reports outlining findings that need to be addressed, trends, patterns, improvement areas and good practices.
• Communicate internally key findings for suppliers, Reckitt sites to the procurement teams and oversee robust corrective actions that will drive long term performance improvements.
• Create and deliver appropriate social and environmental capability building initiatives / communications, guidance material, workshops, conferences, etc., to improve awareness and understanding of relevant topics to drive sustained performance improvements.
• Establish and monitor KPIs and provide regular reports/updates to key business stakeholders on performance status.
• Ensure effective integration of Reckitt’s Sustainability policies and procedures into Reckitt’s purchasing practices to support supply chain due diligence and performance enhancement.
• Regularly review programme performance, kept abreast of changing legislation and best practice, identify challenges, and propose new solutions / approaches that Reckitt can implement.
• Collaborate with peers and multi-stakeholder initiatives to address systemic supply chain challenges effectively (e.g. AIM-Progress, Consumer Goods Forum.)
• Support and develop internal and external communications, together with relevant training and capability building mechanism to build awareness of and support for programme goals, progress, and impacts.
• Contribute to external Sustainability reporting requirements such as Reckitt’s annual Sustainability Report, Modern Slavery Act statement and investor disclosures (FTSE4Good, CDP and DJSI).

Support the development, coordination, and delivery of external sustainability reporting and transparency requirements. This includes contributing data, narrative inputs, and governance processes for disclosures under frameworks such as CSRD, Reckitt’s Sustainability Report and, Modern Slavery Statement reporting, and other relevant ESG transparency initiatives