Working at Leather Working Group
We are a diverse group, we collaborate around the world with a broad group of partners that include brands, manufacturers, environmental experts, NGOs, and farmers to strengthen our expertise, impact, and reach.
Leather Working Group offers a competitive compensation package that includes opportunities for continuing development. Joining the team is a chance to work with a leading not-for-profit organisation with a vision for a future where leather is sourced, produced, and used sustainably, protecting people and the planet.
About Leather Working Group
Leather Working Group (LWG) is a global non-profit, multi-stakeholder initiative committed to building a world where leather is sourced, produced, and used sustainably, protecting people and the planet.
LWG supports and encourages the use of responsibly made leather as a sustainable material by inspiring, educating, and challenging those that produce and use leather. Through collaboration, convening, and standard setting, we are collectively creating a transparent leather value chain that achieves positive impacts aligned to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Hear From Our Team
"What a fantastic team. Developing and delivering compliance tools to a global market with a multitude of requirements gives rise to many challenges, which was what attracted me to the Leather Working Group in the first place. A few months down the line and I am pleased to find myself in a team of people who are able to coordinate this technically challenging landscape and do so with such passion."
Leather Working Group is currently seeking to approve experienced auditors to be responsible for the auditing of leather manufacturers, with preferred locations and language skills being China, South/Central America, and Italy.
Visit our Auditor Application page to learn more.
Vacancies
Current
Director of Standards & Assurance
The Director of Standards & Assurance is accountable for ensuring the robust governance of the LWG assurance process and development of the LWG audit standards. A strategic professional with senior-level experience you will have an in-depth knowledge of standard setting and audit governance, and ideally, proven experience within the leather or leather product supply chain.
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Deforestation Due Diligence Manager / Senior Deforestation Due Diligence Manager - Cattle Value Chain
We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Deforestation Due Diligence Manager to join our team, focusing primarily on deforestation due diligence in the cattle supply chain.