Sustainability Risk and Traceability Manager in London

Are you set to develop the future of sustainable procurement? Bring your passion and demonstrated experience in sustainability risk and responsible sourcing and join us in Global Procurement to build a more resilient supply chain!

Core Responsibilities

As Sustainability Risk and Traceability Manager, you’ll support our sustainable sourcing agenda by managing environmental and human rights risks throughout our supply chains. You will also help build the traceability infrastructure that increases our visibility upstream. This role involves developing a broad approach to risk and traceability for both direct and indirect procurement categories. You will work closely with teams across Global Procurement, Corporate Sustainability, Legal, Government Affairs, Digital Technology, Quality, and others.

Main responsibilities will be:

• Help develop and implement a comprehensive risk framework addressing human rights and environmental risks in key supplier categories.
• Integrate this framework into procurement processes and systems.
• Develop and maintain a database to identify, evaluate, and mitigate sustainability risks in the supply chain by commodity, location, and supplier.
• Enhance tracking of critical metrics to improve supply chain sustainability risk and resilience management, coordinating regular reviews, and progress reports for key partners.
• Assist with regulatory impact assessments and incorporate compliance requirements into the supply chain risk framework and processes.
• Identify and implement new processes, tools, and digital solutions.
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams across sustainability, supply chain and enterprise risk communities to advance sustainability risk management from reactive to proactive.

Traceability

Support the design and execution of a multi‑year roadmap to achieve supply chain transparency across key commodities and procurement categories. Support the establishment of clear processes for chain‑of‑custody data collection, verification, and maintenance — collaborating closely with internal teams both within and outside Global Procurement. Contribute to evaluate, implement, and manage advanced traceability tools and platforms, partnering with Procurement Transformation and Digital technology on their integration and operationalization. Monitor global and industry traceability methodologies and standards, ensuring alignment with industry‑leading frameworks. Assist in collecting, consolidating, and analyzing external supply chain risk and traceability data, translating it into actionable insights to influence sourcing decisions, address risk, and support adherence to compliance standards.

Play your part in our team succeeding

You will join the freshly formed Sustainable Sourcing team, a global section within Global Procurement Operations at the LEGO Group. We hold a vital position in advancing the LEGO Group’s ESG agenda by elevating the sustainability performance of the company’s supplier base. We are a dynamic and dedicated group structured around the three pillars of ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance. We work in close partnership with different departments within the LEGO Group, including Supply Chain Operations, Procurement, Corporate Sustainability, Responsible Operations, Legal, Government Affairs, and more. This connects overall business strategy and requirements with global product categories and regional procurement teams to deliver effective sourcing outcomes.

Do you have what it takes?

• Demonstrated expertise in sustainability risk, responsible sourcing, and supply chain sustainability—preferably within a complex, global business.
• Strong background in developing and implementing supply chain traceability solutions (e.g. Resilinc, Altana) and protocols (e.g. UN Transparency Protocol).
• Strong analytical skills to turn complex data into coherent risk narratives and practical recommendations.
• Proven expertise in environmental and/or human rights due diligence, with knowledge of global frameworks such as OECD, UNGPs, or sector‑specific standards.
• Hands‑on experience designing processes to successfully implement digital tools or platforms serving our business purpose.
• A collaborative, cross‑functional working style; knows how to influence colleagues without direct authority and how to bring others on the journey.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical sustainability topics for procurement, legal, and executive audiences.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity and setting structure where little exists.
• Dedication to our hybrid working policy of 3‑days per week working from the office, 2‑days from home.

Please note that relocation support is not offered for this role.

What’s in it for you?

• Family Care Leave – We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing – We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus – We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace – When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seek to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team. The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.