Supplier Sustainability Specialist

This position is responsible for ensuring audits and assessments of supplier compliance to sustainability standards and the dormakaba Supplier Code of Conduct, and to support processes on supplier outreach and capacity building on sustainability, including information requests to suppliers. This position covers Asia Hub.

Main Responsibilities :

• Coordinate the launches of supplier sustainability assessments for the Region, validating supplier contact information, ensuring pre and post-assessment communication to the supplier on related processes, and following up on corrective actions, assessment status and progress, and tracking KPIs for the Region.
• Support the development of and implementation of processes regarding Requests for Sustainability Information with suppliers and Procurement colleagues at local level, collecting results in Supplier Management and Information Systems, covering topics such as materials restrictions, recycled content, hazardous waste management, and minerals traceability.
• Collaborate with Procurement staff to further develop and operationalize processes for supplier identification, vetting, business pre-qualification, contracting, and supplier relationship management as regards sustainability criteria.
• Develop relationships with key suppliers, including participating in supplier relationship management meetings, assisting with sustainability data collection and awareness raising of dormakaba’ s sustainability program.

Requirements :

• University degree in supply chain management, business administration, or similar
• Working experience in sourcing, supply chain, manufacturing, with concrete achievements in sustainability, climate transition projects
• Very good know-how of supplier sustainability audit and assessment standards such as SMETA, SA8000, EcoVadis, etc.
• High level of negotiation and influencing skills to convince suppliers to participate in the sustainability program