You work in the Ethical Trade team in the beautiful surroundings of Berlin, Germany, with your reporting Director Ethical Trade, your team; and build strong co-operation with @source field teams, vendors, suppliers and factories. YOUR CHALLENGE: * You take primary responsibility for the Ethical Trade strategy and transparency program, and lead multiple Ethical Trade projects. * You lead a team of 2-4 Berlin-based staff. * You will develop strong co-operative relationships with @source teams, CSR Zalando in HQ, internal stakeholders, such as Strategic Vendor Management and Product Teams, and external stakeholders, such as Third Party Service Providers, vendors, and industry collaborators. * You assure the supply chain is monitored and evaluated, providing continuous status reporting to management and @source teams, and providing clear regular overviews to vendors of their compliance status and corrective action plans. * You will develop an Ethical Trade strategy, and build robust and materially-relevant sustainable initiatives to address key challenges, leveraging co-operation from all stakeholders, and delivering to key calendar deadlines. * You will assure ongoing development of the Ethical Trade systems database, tools, manuals and processes to meet business demand. * You will handle crisis communications, plan investigations, and resolve challenges successfully in a timely and delicate manner. * You will engage with key stakeholders, designing and delivering relevant communications, and via trainings. * You will write external annual reports, press and media releases, with our CSR and communications team. * You will travel to source and vendor locations for up to 30%, but only as necessary.