Social Sustainability Manager

Acre is collaborating with a purpose-led global supplier of tea, coffee, and botanical extracts, supporting their sustainable hiring and growth plans. The brand is seeking a Sustainability Executive to join their team, focusing on strategy development, customer engagement and their ethical supply chain.

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Founded in 1750, they have continuously improved and developed their sustainability function, which has consistently been a core priority and they pride themselves on their purposeful offering to the beverage industry.

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This is a unique opportunity to be at the heart of an ethical and well reputed international supplier, whilst implementing their strategic programmes and having direct meaningful impact.

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Key responsibilities include:

• Being a group representative as the regional sustainability subject matter expert, supporting the European commercial region

• Directly involving in customer engagements, driving global initiatives at a local level, and getting directly involved with sustainable supply, empowered communities and our people working groups

• Manage and pioneer relationships with third party ethical trade certification bodies and standards, including Fairtrade, RA, and SEDEX

• Collaborate with local and regional teams to roll out latest policies, and act as a central point for all related enquiries

• Support the development of sustainable reports, proposal writing and communications for external initiatives and customers. This may involve ad-hoc external reporting and collating project summaries for input into the annual sustainability report

• Provide innovative solutions to monitoring the sustainability programmes e.g. new tools or project trackers, in a quest to continually improve the group's overall efficiency

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You will utilise the following skills and attributes:

• Relevant and transferrable experience in ethical compliance, standards, or social sustainability

• A sound knowledge of ethical trade platforms, certifications, and standards which you have experienced first-hand or in a practical environment

• Experience of delivering sustainable initiatives, with a commercial mindset and awareness

• Knowledge of environmental, economic, social and governance issues within the beverage/FMCG or similar industry

• Social audit training or qualification

• Ability to deliver projects in a structured and clearly communicated manner, ensuring expected standards are achieved and that stakeholders are engaged and clear on requirements

• The initiative to proactively understand the needs of internal and external stakeholders and then translate these needs into actions in an efficient way

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This role can be based in their office in Pontefract or their innovation centre in central London.

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If you are a collaborative and pro-active professional with experience in social sustainability looking for the next step to further your career through direct and impactful strategy, apply directly or contact Ruth Smith via ruth.smith@acre.com.