Principle Responsibilities:
• Measure progress through sustainable sourcing KPIs towards the achievement of our seafood sustainability , deforestation and Scope 3 commitments ; flag up shortfalls/blockages to progress, suggesting possible solutions and supporting internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve this.
o Within seafood, the main focus will be on wild caught tuna, salmon, sardines, mackerel and farmed basa (pangasius).
o Within carbon, the main focus will be on improving Princes’ understanding, measurement and monitoring of its scope 3 emissions and opportunities to reduce them in its supply chain. This includes working cross functionally to identity the long-term software partners required and internal resource required.
o Within deforestation this will encompass food and raw material impacts on biodiversity ( key commodities beef, soy, palm oil )
• Proactively assess and propose amendments to existing strategies considering factors such as cost effectiveness, feasibility, and acceptance.
• Maintain and develop beneficial long term relationships with both our key supply partners supporting them to meet Princes’ sourcing requirements and also customers’ sustainability teams in order to build expertise that can be shared and acted upon with the objective of delivering commercial stability and benefit through our sustainability credentials.
• Build new or maintain existing relationships with industry and non-government / environmental organisations to enable customised sustainability information to be produced for internal stakeholders to determine whether any change in objectives is required.
• Maintain a network of data sources to draw on for sustainability information and a proactive approach to communicating developments within fish sustainability, climate change/carbon and deforestation so as to advise the business on risks and potential issues.
• Support Procurement and other functions by liaising with internal and external stakeholders in the delivery of sustainability initiatives including for example individual Fisheries Improvement Projects (FIPs). Job holder will be lead representative on all FIPs that Princes is a member of and take the lead role in all seafood data reporting to customers or industry bodies .
• Represent Princes on existing key industry groups relating to the job holders area (e.g. Global Tuna Alliance, TUPA, NAPA) and further ones that are identified as strategically or tactically important
• Support Commercial (Buying), Technical and Sales teams with regards to relevant customer own brand tenders where input on Princes’ fish sourcing or carbon strategy and approach is required, or can prove beneficial to incorporate.
• Provide advice where required to key customers in developing and achieving their own sourcing objectives as appropriate by using knowledge and expertise to highlight Princes’ strengths, thereby protecting and supporting our branded position in our major customers.
• Act as lead customer contact on all matters relating to fish sustainability, Scope 3 carbon and biodiversity/deforestation
• Advise the Corporate Relations team with regards to our communication of fish sustainability, carbon and biodiversity related matters to our customers and other external and internal stakeholders.
• Lead Princes’ Tuna Sustainability steering group through attendance at monthly meetings and co-ordinating and following up on agreed actions.
• Identify new, and support existing, opportunities to support the embedding of Princes’ CSR approach, which includes hosting and running internal events on key responsible sourcing issues relating to fish, carbon management and biodiversity with supporting with case studies, blogs, webinars as required.
Knowledge , Skills and Experience:
• Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience).
• Demonstrable experience in sustainable sourcing and greenhouse gas measurement / reporting preferably gained within the food industry or retail environments.
• Experience of working with seafood sustainability and climate change NGOs (non-government organisations) is desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge of global fish sustainability - particularly tuna - and climate change matters and the ability to communicate business relevant issues and developments to key stakeholders.
• Frequent communications with customers, suppliers and their sustainability representatives as well as internal stakeholders at many levels will be required therefore the ability to form strong long-term relationships is essential.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills.
• Good organisational and planning skills.
• Comfortable and confident in talking publicly on behalf of Princes on relevant subject matters
• Analytical mind with the ability to identify problems and research effective ways to deal with them.
• Previous experience of developing strategic documents/reports and the ability to summarise and effectively communicate complex issues to a wider range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent teamworking skills and ability to build strong, effective relationships and work cross functionally.
• Membership (Practitioner or Full) of Institute of Environmental Management & Assessment (IEMA) is desirable but essential. |
