Global Director of Sustainability

Acre is partnering with pladis, a leading international food company, as the company looks to appoint a Global Director of Sustainability. With brands including Jacob's Cream Crackers, Twiglets, Godiva Chocolates and McVities, you will have the opportunity to drive substantial impact at a company with products in households around the world.

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Role Purpose:

This role can drive a change in pladis' approach to Sustainability and ESG. More than an implementer, the role holder will have the opportunity to take ownership of the company's sustainability and ESG programmes, from design to implementation.

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Through engagement with senior internal and external stakeholders, the role has the opportunity to create a culture of sustainability within pladis whilst increasing the visibility of pladis' performance as a business.

Key to the role is bringing the 'outside in'; understanding external best practices and how they can be operationalised within pladis.

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Key Deliverables & Responsibilities:

• Build and drive the sustainability strategy for pladis globally

• Turn pladis into a best-in-class, environmentally responsible business, from corporate HQ to company operations and the supplier base

• Partner with the Corporate Affairs and Communications team to build a clear communications strategy for the company's ESG agenda

• Through direction and collaboration work with the business regions, build roadmaps that can bring the strategy to life

• With support from the Technical Workstream leaders, create and deploy pladis' sustainability roadmaps in key commodities (palm oil, cocoa, wheat), plastic packaging and decarbonisation

• Ensure that pladis' regions deploy their 2022/2025 local sustainability roadmaps that meet specific requirements coming from regulators, customers, or past commitments

• Educate and engage colleagues across pladis on the strategic importance of sustainability, e.g. on innovation and manufacturing measures (greenhouse gases, effluent, water usage etc.)

• Effectively identify and engage with selected global stakeholders to increase the visibility of pladis' sustainability performance

• Work with pladis' key external stakeholders (membership bodies, NGOs etc.) to drive enhanced sustainability performance, increase the visibility of the company's achievements and build pre-competitive collaboration opportunities

• Share pladis' sustainability approach with Yildiz Holding and eventually sister companies (e.g. GODIVA) to ensure consistent approaches

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Your Background:

• A passion for sustainability / ESG combined with leadership and the ability to drive change within an organisation

• Background in food and drink preferred, in functions which are key to delivering a sustainability agenda (e.g. procurement, supply chain, R&D, marketing)

• An international mindset with experience in interacting with people of different backgrounds and cultures

• Ability to quickly understand technical issues and to translate them into concepts easily understandable for a broad audience of non-expert people

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If you're looking for an opportunity where you can drive meaningful change in an international organisation with some of the world's best-loved food brands, please apply or contact Tom Townsend at tom.townsend@acre.com.