Director for Human Rights

Job Description:

The Director for Human Rights will play a strategic role to further embed, strengthen and evolve our Supplier Human Rights programme into our broader McDonald’s Supply. They will report directly into the Vice President McDonald’s Global Sustainability. In brief, the role will entail:

• Strategic responsibility for the current McDonald’s Supplier Workplace Accountability (SWA) Program   
• Working strategically with our external Program Management team and internal Compliance teams
• Working with Supply Chain colleagues across the global and country teams to ensure SWA requirements are fully embedded into their category strategies
• Participation / leadership in both industry and internal working groups
• Liaison with Compliance and the Monitoring Firms (approval/ pricing) to ensure audit capacity, quality and calibration

Responsibilities:

In addition to following McDonald’s policies and procedures, principle accountabilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Enhance product, supply chain, and corporate strategies to ensure human rights are effectively represented across the global sustainability goals/ plans. Own McDonald’s Supplier Code of Conduct policy and evolve as necessary.
• Lead a Global Cross-functional SWA Board (GSWAB) to develop long term strategy and find solutions for the business’s short term needs (the team includes internal legal partners, market sustainability leads, and audit companies amongst other partners.
• Manage the rapidly changing global landscape and find ways to evolve human rights/ SWA to meet the needs of stakeholders, customer, employees and the public.
• Lead and encourage innovations that support the ability of McDonald’s and our suppliers to manage priorities and strengthen governance.
• Ensure expectations are scalable with auditors, suppliers and McDonald’s all being aware of SWA expectations, including the on-boarding process, receiving training / refresher training on regular basis. Leverage supplier network to offer opportunities to share training with suppliers and as part of working groups to leverage diverse knowledge and experience.
• Analyze issues that occur within our supply chain which may be country / regional specific. Ensure a solution is developed that is appropriate whilst maintaining corporate values, upholding SWA expectations, driving continuous improvement and acting in alignment with other solutions globally.
• Liaise with key global suppliers to understand how they “own” SWA within their organization. Understand the risk they bring to the System depending on their ability to lead in this space.
• Manage the supplier led program, engage with organisations who wish to apply for SLP status and/or have their non-McDonald’s social compliance audits recognized.
• Liaise with Compliance to drive improvement in facilities, to reduce repeat non-compliance. Ensure analysis of issues identified in audit reports, benchmarking with other brands and staying abreast of emerging issues.
• Effective communication with diverse global stakeholders – internally with SC colleagues, suppliers, and McD leadership and externally with various stakeholders – NGOs, govt officials, other leading brands.
• Maintain leadership role within industry working groups by participating in groups such as BSR Human Rights Working Group, Aim-Progress sitting on the leadership / advisory boards.
• Network and benchmark with experts a variety of industries, in order to see the big picture of what innovations to incorporate into the social compliance space.
• Communication of progress and measures to Senior Management.

Requirements:

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 5+ years of experience in a Human Rights related field
• 5+ years of experience working in a demonstrated leadership role, within industry working groups, establishing a strong stakeholder network

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong human rights expertise
• Ability to influence
• Experience building strong working relationships and driving continuous improvement across multiple markets/ product categories
• Strong strategic skills
• Project management expertise
• A high level of communication, flexibility and interpersonal skills, often working with global, virtual and cross-functional teams
• A global mind-set and positive, collaborative spirit
• Additional languages a benefit
• Spoken and written fluency in the English language

To Apply

Visit the McDonald’s Corporation website to apply.