Fashion Sustainability & Packaging Manager

Job Title

Fashion Sustainability & Packaging Manager

Location

George House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits

Category

Health and Safety

Closing Date

3 January 2026

 

As a Fashion Sustainability and Packaging Manager you'll drive the delivery of the Non-Food (George Clothing & General Merchandise) Sustainability strategy, transforming practices to meet ESG commitments and regulatory requirements. You will also bring leadership and transparency to systems, packaging compliance, and brand vision across George and GM.

Your Role

• Deliver sustainability strategy across textiles, home, and packaging.
• Manage transparency systems to ensure compliance with regulatory and internal standards.
• Develop packaging strategies aligned with EPR, PPT, CMA, RFID, and Product Passport legislation.
• Lead guidelines, training, and coaching to ensure compliance and best practice.
• Curate packaging in line with George Brand vision, balancing cost, capacity, and sustainability.
• Ensure CMA compliance and governance of sustainability messaging.
• Validate and improve ESG claims across George and GM.
• Monitor regulatory changes and advise leadership (“horizon scanning”).
• Manage sustainability and packaging teams to deliver milestones on cost, compliance, and innovation.
• Build strong supplier, trading team, and external partner relationships.
• Oversee RFID management and potential GM implementation.
• Own packaging website and partner relationships.

Skills & Experience

• Strong knowledge of sustainability in textiles, home products, and packaging materials.
• Proven ability to lead teams and support trading queries.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Global retail supply base knowledge to mitigate risk.
• Strong organisational and project management skills.
• Ability to interpret trends and brief external design partners.
• Expertise in packaging formats, substrates, and print options with sustainability focus.

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Everything you'll love

To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.

You will also get an excellent benefits package including:

• Discretionary company bonus

• Company pension up to 7% matched

• Company Car allowance of £5,700

• 15% colleague discount in store and online

• Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.

• Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated

• Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.

We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves