Laura Taylor

Over the past three years, I have exclusively focused on sustainability, managing, and delivering various projects that have driven significant change. I have contributed to the development of my company’s ESG strategy, re-benchmarked targets, and consistently met personal KPIs. Additionally, I have played a key role in training both internal and external teams to implement crucial changes, advancing our roadmap toward a more sustainable business model. My work has also involved
substantial legal responsibilities, including leading my company’s investigation under the CMA (Competition and Markets Authority), establishing a quarterly legal reporting structure, and creating
and implementing new Green Claims Policies for all employees across the business.

Current key responsibilities as an ESG Manager:

• CMA - Quarterly reporting, weekly tech scrape of all brand websites, mandatory group level policy training.
• Product Certification – Checking and approving supplier certification for products containing more sustainable materials.
• Supplier Support– Working with and onboarding key suppliers per region to become ‘approved’ to supply more sustainable materials. Training them to understand the certification requirements by material type, and creating a block with tech teams so only
  approved suppliers can have orders placed against them if a product is marked as being more sustainable.
• Internal and External Employee Training – Creating and rolling out updated training to colleagues and suppliers on all business-related sustainability requirements.
• Carbon Accounting – Managing the relationship with our 3 rd party agency to collect quarterly
  carbon data from all areas of our business to annually determine if we are hitting our decarbonization targets across our scope 1, 2 and 3.
• Sustainability Partnerships – Have managed our relationships with all 3rd party sustainability partners. Such as WRAP T2030, Better Cotton, Emitwise, The Microfibre Consortium and any
  annual reporting that aligns with these memberships.

Being an account lead for 3 leading core woven departments in the production team at a clothing supplier who had key accounts with high street names such as New Look.

Responsibilities Included:

• Managing the full process from initial sign off at order confirmation stage right through to ordering all fabrics and components.
• Approving POs.
• Quoting and maintaining lead times.
• Dealing with all production issues, from factory, warehouse and customer. Overseeing whole manufacturing process right up until the garment delivery date.
• Mapping all sustainable fabrics. This included sending weekly reports to customers sustainability teams – confirming information on orders across all departments that used sustainable fabrics.
• Management of correct garment labelling.
• Managing weekly critical path report across all departments, working closely alongside the garment techs and account managers to monitor seal by dates, delivery dates and fit samples.
• Uploading specs, fabric and garment weights and wash care information to retailer online portals for all orders.
• Weekly stock reports to all mills, confirming dates, deliveries and quantities.