Taking on the completion of the EcoVadis assessment for GCS meant first assessing and analysing the company’s current ESG efforts, highlighting gaps and helping to gather all relevant documentation to answer 37 pages of questions, adding documentation and proof of ‘policies in action’ to support every answer covering Human Rights, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, Training, Health and Safety, Environmental reporting, accreditations and initiatives, Ethics, IT security and sustainable procurement, which includes environmental choices such as choosing to procure sustainable/recycled materials etc. EcoVadis builds questionnaires based on industry, location, and size of the company to ensure the questions are in line with country guidelines and specific to the needs and requirements of the industry and company stakeholders, with each question having a different weighting. We optimised and developed documentation for GCS to ensure it was meeting EcoVadis guidelines and collaborated with stakeholders such as HR, operations, and compliance specialists to create awareness and further build out material for the benefit of the entire GCS ecosystem.