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Sr. Manager – Social Excellence Program Lead

Schneider Electric Buildings Americas, Inc.

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Karnataka, IN
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Job Description

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Job Overview:

Responsibilities:

 

In order to strengthen Schneider Electric’s ESG risk mitigation processes in its upstream supply chain your mission is to:

 

1)       Contribute to the Social Excellence Program

 

As part of the Group's sustainability commitments, this program (SSE #12) aims to identify, prevent and mitigate decent work risks in a product supply chain, through multiple tiers of suppliers.

In collaboration with Global Human Right teams: define scope, methodology, process and tools to deploy the program:

 

  • Detailed mapping of the product’s supply chain: investigate and support ad-hoc initiative to create product traceability through tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers identification (collaborating with Resilinc ) and their assessment on Human Rights through self-assessment questionnaires and on-site audits
  • Critical raw materials: support global initiative to identify and mitigate salient human rights issues linked to minerals (if necessary)
  • Sensitive geographies: support deployment of new tools (such as Workers Voice, Human Rights Impact Assessments) to identify salient human rights issues in a given geography, working with service providers, procurement teams and suppliers
  • Link Procurement teams with Human right team
  • Propose (if necessary) update of questionnaire to suppliers
  • Support program’s definition and execution and propose improvements

             

 

2)       On site Audits

 

  • If necessary for Social Excellence, define new audit standard (if decision is not to use RBA framework)

                Execute corresponding on-site audits (may be in any country)

  • Same for suppliers within Decent Work program

 

  • Vigilance plan

In own region, support audit plan deployment and execution: on site audits, 3rd party management, if necessary, trainings to Procurement and Suppliers teams…

 

 

Qualifications:

·      Passionate about Ethics, Labor and EHS, with strong willingness to share knowledge

·      Experience of on-site industrial audits

·      Knowledge of EICC / RBA code of conduct and EHS, Labor and Ethics standards is a plus

·      Strong skills in organization, project coordination and follow up

·      Influence and communication (written and spoken) skills, capacity to interact with different levels in the organizations

·      Bilingual: Local language and fluent English

·      Travel: from 40% to 60% (including domestic and international)

·      Minimum 6-year experience

 

·      Good collaborative work style and strong “Influence and Convince”

·      Self-directed. Self-motivated.

·      Good communication and influence skills 

Responsibilities:

 

In order to strengthen Schneider Electric’s ESG risk mitigation processes in its upstream supply chain your mission is to:

 

1)       Contribute to the Social Excellence Program

 

As part of the Group's sustainability commitments, this program (SSE #12) aims to identify, prevent and mitigate decent work risks in a product supply chain, through multiple tiers of suppliers.

In collaboration with Global Human Right teams: define scope, methodology, process and tools to deploy the program:

 

  • Detailed mapping of the product’s supply chain: investigate and support ad-hoc initiative to create product traceability through tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers identification (collaborating with Resilinc ) and their assessment on Human Rights through self-assessment questionnaires and on-site audits
  • Critical raw materials: support global initiative to identify and mitigate salient human rights issues linked to minerals (if necessary)
  • Sensitive geographies: support deployment of new tools (such as Workers Voice, Human Rights Impact Assessments) to identify salient human rights issues in a given geography, working with service providers, procurement teams and suppliers
  • Link Procurement teams with Human right team
  • Propose (if necessary) update of questionnaire to suppliers
  • Support program’s definition and execution and propose improvements

             

 

2)       On site Audits

 

  • If necessary for Social Excellence, define new audit standard (if decision is not to use RBA framework)

                Execute corresponding on-site audits (may be in any country)

  • Same for suppliers within Decent Work program

 

  • Vigilance plan

In own region, support audit plan deployment and execution: on site audits, 3rd party management, if necessary, trainings to Procurement and Suppliers teams…

 

 

Qualifications:

·      Passionate about Ethics, Labor and EHS, with strong willingness to share knowledge

·      Experience of on-site industrial audits

·      Knowledge of EICC / RBA code of conduct and EHS, Labor and Ethics standards is a plus

·      Strong skills in organization, project coordination and follow up

·      Influence and communication (written and spoken) skills, capacity to interact with different levels in the organizations

·      Bilingual: Local language and fluent English

·      Travel: from 40% to 60% (including domestic and international)

·      Minimum 6-year experience

 

·      Good collaborative work style and strong “Influence and Convince”

·      Self-directed. Self-motivated.

·      Good communication and influence skills