Job Responsibility

You will be mainly involved in 6 tasks:

Support CSR Managers in Hong-Kong, Panama & Troyes to ensure 100% of our wastes are recycled. Your role will be to develop audit & performance scoring tools, to phase a roadmap with teams, develop KPIs and ensure a follow-up. You will animate regular meetings to keep communications open and make a smooth strategy implementation. KPIs will be reported to the global CSR team to feed the “Durable Elegance” strategic committee.

You might also visit factories and recyclers by yourself.

Circularity

You will discuss with our markets to find opportunities to launch take-back programs in-store and on-line. You will contribute to build the model (accepted products, logistics, recycling solutions, etc.) and to sum-up all the learnings from the initiatives to build a worldwide take-back program.

Recyclability

Lacoste developed a tool enabling the recyclability analysis of our products. It needs to be updated with real practices from the field. Thus, in relation to Zero Destruction, you will need to sum-up what are the mature technologies, what products remain difficult to recycle, why, etc. The tool is yearly updated.

You will also contribute to write guidelines and training of our design teams to help them including recyclability as a parameter in their eco-design journey.

Eco-friendly fabrics

Based on our Product and Design teams expectations, you will guide our Fabrics teams in Panama, Hong-Kong and Troyes to develop sustainable (e.g. recycled, organic, etc.), cost-efficient and long-lasting fabrics. By being at the interface of these 2 worlds, you will be the bridge between style and technical expertise.

Product environmental footprint

You will identify the main environmental burdens in our products (e.g. dyeing, printing, etc.) and design a data collection framework. You will then be in direct contact with our factories to get the most accurate data and be able to make simulation through our LCA tool. That way you will be able to identify leverages to improve the footprint of our products (carbon, water, eutrophication, land use).

Technological watch

With a scientific approach, you will analyze innovative and sustainable technologies that can support us in achieving targets. More especially, you will look for product dismantling, waste sorting & recycling technologies, but also related to textile core processes (e.g. spinning, dyeing, knitting, etc.), water management, chemicals & energy.

Job Requirements

Hard skills:

Must have:

• Technical background: ability to understand industrial and recycling processes; 
• Sustainability oriented: knowledge on key environmental issues, able to understand LCA principles; 
• Data management: you will have to collect data, clean it, make simulations and KPIs;
• Fluent in English

Nice to have:

• Textile background: technical knowledge on processes & fabrics
• Fluent in Spanish, Mandarin or any other language

Soft skills:

Must have:

• Project Management: good organization, tasks phasing, deadlines anticipation, etc.
• Tenacity: never give up! Ecological transition is a long journey
• Team spirit: you will work with many stakeholders in a transversal way, so you will need to use your soft power to gather everyone and reach your goals
• Daring: don’t hesitate in trying and pushing disruptive projects, it will be appreciated
• Elegance: we need someone with good interpersonal relationships, able to easily communicate with a wide range of stakeholders from technical teams to sales, marketing, design teams.
• Wish and availability to travel

Nice to have:

• Presentation skills: Powerpoint or any other tool
• Critical spirit: Someone able to challenge others’ ideas
• Autonomous
• Curious
• Innovation oriented
• Positive mindset

For LACOSTE, Life is a Beautiful Sport! 

Since the very first polo was created in 1933, LACOSTE relies on its authentic sportive roots to spring optimism and elegance on the world thanks to a unique and original lifestyle for women, men and children. 

With a vision to be the leading player in the premium casual wear market, the Crocodile brand is today present in 120 countries through a selective distribution network. Two LACOSTE items are sold every second in the world. 

As an international group gathering 10,000 women and men, LACOSTE offers a complete range of products: apparel, leather goods, fragrances, footwear, eyewear, home wear, watches and underwear, all of them being  elaborated  in  the most qualitative, responsible and ethical way.  In 2016, the brand garnered a turnover of more than 2 billion euros. 

For more information: www.lacoste.com