Manager Sustainability Product

At Karl Lagerfeld, we are driven by Karl’s mantra: “Embrace the present and invent the future.”

Always contemporary and forward-looking, the House of KARL LAGERFELD shares the creative vision and design aesthetic of its iconic founder, Karl Lagerfeld.

We are the only fashion house that carries Karl’s name on its door and we strive to live up to this responsibility in everything we do, every day, with the utmost joy and passion.

Our headquarters in Paris and in Amsterdam are home to a highly diverse and driven team of KARL family members that hail from over 25 countries. Together, we aim to create meaningful stories and product concepts that connect to Karl’s world and iconic attributes.

Women’s ready-to-wear, bags, small leather goods and underwear are managed directly from our Amsterdam headquarters, while other categories, including menswear, footwear, fragrances, eyewear and more, are developed with best-in-class licensing partners.

We connect with our consumers on multiple levels, ensuring that our online and offline approach goes hand in hand. We thrive to maximize consumer engagement via more than 200 KL stores worldwide, our premium wholesale partners, and our strong digital footprint, spearheaded by our KARL.COM flagship store, which reaches 96 countries. Our digital channels currently represent more than 30% of our overall full-price business.

We are a dynamic, fast-growing and inclusive company built on professionalism and strong values. At KARL LAGERFELD we’re committed to working toward the highest standards of sustainability and integrity across all areas of our business,. In 2019, KARL LAGERFELD joined as a founding member of the Fashion Pact, a global sustainability initiative seeking to transform the fashion industry through objectives in three areas: climate, biodiversity and ocean protection.

THE ROLE

As Manager Sustainability Product you are responsible for developing and implementing the roadmap that ensures the sustainable commitments and regulations regarding product are honored. You manage a small team that supports you with monitoring, reporting, and measuring Karl Lagerfeld’s social and environmental impact and measure against the companies’ commitments. Together with your team you are responsible for ensuring that accurate data is timely collected, and documentation is well organized. You and your team will be the point of contact for our suppliers and factories to secure compliance with Karl Lagerfeld’s social and environmental standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Be the CSR product expert that implements the KARL CARES strategy from a product perspective. This includes development of the sustainable materials strategy, guide and assess social and environmental impacts at suppliers through Higg FEM/FSLM, and present sustainable product updates to other departments.
• Be informed of and share all relevant (policy) developments with the in- and external stakeholders.
• Mapping of Karl Lagerfeld supply chain implementing the traceability software and continuously monitoring social and environmental compliance.
• Risk assessment production countries based on OECD Due Diligence Guidelines
• Ensure RSL (Restricted Substances List) compliance and further develop environmental supply chain requirements in line with Higg FEM focus areas for all in-house production.
• Manage the Higg BRM data for all in-house production.
• Manage the publication of supplier list on open supply hub.
• Manage annual update of Karl Lagerfeld supplier manual, policies, RSL and MRSL and create guiding documents for KL-Suppliers.
• Manage brand certification for GOTS, RCS, OCS and GRS. Guide suppliers and ensure products carry the correct sustainability tag.
• Working closely with the Product development teams and CSR representatives within the company
• Manage, support, and guide the Sustainability team Product.