Embedded hire
A sustainability manager, embedded for 3, 6 or 12 months.
Hiring for a sustainability manager takes months, and the compliance dates do not wait. We place an experienced consultant inside your business to do the job of that role — product compliance, evidence, claims and reporting — on a fixed scope with dated deliverables.
Book a callThe role you are trying to fill
Most fashion sustainability job specs ask one person to cover strategy, product and materials, regulatory compliance, carbon accounting, supplier due diligence, reporting and marketing sign-off. That is four disciplines in one salary band, and the market for people who can do all of it is thin.
An embedded consultant closes the gap now. You get the same remit and the same accountability, without a twelve-week search, and with a specialist bench behind the person in the room.
Why time-limited works better here
Compliance work is front-loaded. The heavy lifting is establishing what applies to you, collecting the evidence once, and building the registers that keep it current. That is a project, not a permanent workload.
So we scope it as one: fixed duration, named deliverables, dated artefacts you own. If you want to hire permanently afterwards, you do it with the function already running and a clear brief for the person you need.
What you get
Deliverables
Obligation map
Which regulations apply to which products, in which markets, with the dates that bind you.
Evidence gap list
What you hold, what you are missing, and which supplier holds the answer.
Material and certificate register
Per range, with expiries tracked so nothing lapses quietly.
DPP field readiness
Your data mapped against the candidate field register and the EU registry format.
Claims substantiation file
Every public green claim, the evidence behind it, and the ones to withdraw before EmpCo bites.
Reporting inputs
Scope 3, CSRD, GRI and SBTi inputs built from one reconciled evidence base.
Handover pack
Playbooks and training for design, buying, legal and marketing, so the work continues.
Line by line
Your job spec, and how we cover it
Own the sustainability strategy, targets and roadmap
A START diagnosis and a dated roadmap you can put in front of your board, not a values statement.
Product and materials: preferred fibres, certifications, supplier data
A material and certificate register per range, with expiry dates and the gaps named by supplier.
Regulatory compliance: ESPR, Digital Product Passport, EPR, green claims
Obligation mapping by market, evidence collected to the field, and the file that survives a challenge.
Carbon footprinting and Scope 3
Product and organisational footprints to ISO 14067 and 14064, with the assumptions written down.
Reporting: CSRD, GRI, SBTi, annual report data
Reporting packs built from the same evidence base, so the numbers reconcile across disclosures.
Supplier engagement and due diligence
One data request per supplier, chased to completion, tracked in a register your team can run.
Marketing sign-off on claims
A claims review gate: what you can say, what you cannot, and the substantiation behind each line.
Train and upskill internal teams
Handover sessions and written playbooks for design, buying and legal, so it stays after we leave.
Pick the length that matches the deadline
3 months
Get compliant on the near dates
Obligation map, evidence gap list, EmpCo claims clean-up and the priority fixes closed. Enough to stop the immediate exposure.
6 months
Build the evidence base
Supplier data collection across your top ranges, DPP field readiness, packaging and EPR returns, and reporting inputs assembled.
12 months
Run the function, then hand it over
The full remit of the in-house role, delivered on a schedule, with your team trained and the registers left running.
Not sure which you need? Start with the free assessment — it tells you the size of the job before you commit to a length. See also how we work as your sustainability function and the consultants we bring in.
Further reading
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Find out where you stand.
Start with the free assessment: which rules apply to your products, where your evidence gaps are, and what to fix first. If you would rather talk it through, book a call instead.
Free. 90 minutes of your team's time. Written findings back within 10 working days.
What we do
Where to go next
Plain-English pages on the rules that apply to you, the evidence you need, and the people who do the work.
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