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About the Role
The ESG Manager will lead and embed George Weston Foods’ ethical sourcing framework, ensuring compliance with legislation and Group standards. This role focuses on identifying, assessing, and mitigating supply chain human rights and modern slavery risks, implementing the GWF Responsible Code of Conduct, and strengthening monitoring through platforms like Sedex. The role also supports responses to external sustainability, human rights, and regulatory requests.
Responsibilities
- Identify and understand salient ethical sourcing and modern slavery risks, conducting supply chain risk assessments and developing risk profiles.
- Lead the rollout and implementation of the GWF Responsible Code of Conduct, ensuring integration into supplier onboarding, contracts, and procurement processes.
- Implement and manage Sedex across relevant operations and suppliers, coordinating self-assessments, audits, and corrective action plans.
- Develop and implement modern slavery and ethical sourcing training for relevant teams.
- Assist with responses to external sustainability, human rights, and ethical sourcing requests, including contributing to modern slavery statements.
- Support engagement with government, industry bodies, investors, customers, and other stakeholders.
- Assist in the coordination, preparation, and review of sustainability and ESG disclosures.
- Maintain documentation, methodologies, assumptions, and supporting evidence for audit, assurance, and regulatory requirements.
Requirements
- Experience in ethical sourcing, modern slavery, or human rights due diligence.
- Strong understanding of global supply chains, particularly within food or agricultural commodities.
- Familiarity with modern slavery legislation, reporting frameworks, and ESG requirements.
- Experience using platforms such as Sedex or similar supplier risk tools.
- Strong stakeholder engagement, influencing, and communication skills.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and deliver pragmatic, risk-based solutions.
- Pre-employment screening tests may include a criminal record check.
Skills
- Ethical sourcing
- Modern slavery
- Human rights due diligence
- Supply chain risk assessment
- Supplier onboarding
- Contract management
- Procurement processes
- Compliance management
- Sedex
- Supplier self-assessments
- Audits
- Corrective action plans
- Training development
- Stakeholder engagement
- Influencing
- Communication
- ESG disclosures
- Sustainability reporting
Location
- Australia
- New Zealand
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experience in ethical sourcing, modern slavery or human rights due diligence
- Experience using platforms such as Sedex or similar supplier risk tools
Education Level
- Degree in sustainability, law, supply chain, human rights or a related field
About the Company
- George Weston Foods makes some of Australia and New Zealand’s favourite and most innovative products.
- Brands include Tip Top®, Abbotts Village Bakery®, Burgen®, Golden®, DON®, KR Castlemaine® and Yumi’s®.
Equal Opportunity
- At GWF we strive to create a place where everyone belongs, everyone is valued, and everyone has equal opportunity.
- We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, and cultures – including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people living with disability.
- We're happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.