Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

Your Mission: Chickpeas and other beans are remarkable foods. They’re one of the most efficient sources of protein by water usage and greenhouse gas emissions. Eating them is correlated with longevity and reduced likelihood of cardiovascular disease. They fix nitrogen in the soil. Plus, they’re the main ingredient in Banza’s delicious pasta and pizza! Yet, Americans eat about ⅓ the recommended daily value. Banza has a ton of potential to improve human health, environmental health, and promote community and joy through our work. We are looking for an analytical, scrappy ESG professional who can measure and undertake projects to improve our impact on people and planet across all aspects of our business, with a strong focus on ROI. You’ll be our leader and operator in prioritizing, undertaking, and measuring sustainability initiatives, be a department of one, and report directly to the CEO.

What You’ll Do:

• Quantify Banza’s impact on human health and the environment through reporting
• Lead the ideation, prioritization, and execution of projects that can increase our positive impact in human health, the environment, and the community
• Evaluate the return on various sustainability initiatives and determine the correct metrics to measure our real impact
• Execute initiatives across all departments at the company, whether rolling up your sleeves to work on a sustainable packaging project, measuring the glucose responses to different alternative flours with the product team, or navigating the USDA to launch Banza into schools to support children’s nutrition
• Write and speak with analytical rigor, passion, and persuasiveness
• Act as an individual contributor and cross-functional collaborator, both leading and executing initiatives, and ensuring you are doing what’s best for the whole company and each department in your work
• Partner with the marketing and communications team to share the benefits of what we’re able to achieve

Who You Are:

• 7-12 years of experience in ESG work, CPG experience preferred
• MA/MS in environmental/materials science or business, or equivalent experience
• Experience quantifying and reporting on environmental and social impact and the skillset to determine what really matters
• Ability to prioritize projects based on ROI, and lead execution across diverse areas like operations, product, marketing, and legal.
• Proven track record of strengthening a brand’s ESG measurement and increasing its positive impact through strategic projects
• Top-notch communicator and independent leader, experienced in building a persuasive case and shepherding important initiatives through an organization
• Versatile, someone who would have fit among Banza’s first ten team members and can take on whatever needs to be done
• Must love Banza!