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Position Overview:

Company Description

Simple Mills is a rapidly-growing company on the forefront of the clean food movement, transforming center store grocery aisles with products made from nutritious, purposeful ingredients. Simple Mills is a female-founded business, started by Katlin Smith in 2012 out of her own Kitchen. In the company’s short history, Simple Mills has disrupted the market to become the #1 bestselling natural baking mix, the #1 bestselling natural cracker, and the #1 bestselling natural cookie.

The company’s mission is to advance the holistic health of the planet and its people by positively impacting the way food is made. Simple Mills is distributed in 25,000+ stores nationally including Whole Foods, Target, Walmart, Kroger, Costco and more, and available online at retailers like Amazon and Thrive Market. The brand’s newest products include: Organic Seed Flour Crackers, Seed & Nut Flour Sweet Thins, and Soft-Baked Almond Flour Bars. Simple Mills has earned broad recognition from top tier media and industry associations- including a segment on our Founder & CEO Katlin Smith on NPR’s How I Built This . Our products have been featured in a wide array of top publications including Vogue, Women’s Health, Forbes, Business Insider, mindbodygreen, NOSH and many more. Simple Mills was also a 2020 Health Magazine Snack Award Winner!

Role Description

The Senior Manager, Sustainability and Mission will play a critical role in progressing Simple Mills’ mission to advance the holistic health of the planet and its people. The Senior Manager will be responsible for leading the sustainable packaging strategy, leading employee engagement programs related to human and planetary health, coordinating regenerative agriculture farmer engagement programs in key sourcing regions, supporting marketing and communications related to human and planetary health, and supporting additional projects to help advance our mission.

Reporting to the Director of Sustainability & Mission, key responsibilities will include:

Regenerative Agriculture Programs

• Coordinate a subset of existing and emerging regenerative agriculture farmer engagement programs in key sourcing regions. Manage multi-year partnerships with on-the-ground experts and suppliers to equip farmers with resources that enable implementation of regenerative principles.
• Partner with the Procurement team to identify and vet suppliers with a commitment to traceability and regenerative agriculture principles.

Sustainable Packaging Strategy

• Develop and lead the company’s sustainable packaging strategy by collaborating cross-functionally to optimize packaging design, select sustainable source materials, and increase material recoverability at end of life.

Internal Engagement

• Lead company-wide People & Planet quarterly learning modules by identifying timely topics, selecting external speakers, and coordinating in-person and virtual events.
• Facilitate the cross-functional People & Planet Ambassadors group to serve as liaisons for their functions and advance company-wide human and planetary health initiatives.
• Identify additional internal engagement opportunities related to our mission and partner with the People Operations team to coordinate activities.

Impact Reporting, Communications, and Marketing

• Lead development of the annual sustainability report by partnering with Marketing, Procurement, and other functions to collect data, write, and design an engaging annual report.
• Support communications related to our mission by preparing PowerPoint presentations, writing talking points for external presentations by the CEO and Director of Sustainability & Mission, and partnering with the Marketing team on PR initiatives, award submissions, press releases, social media posts, and other opportunities to externally showcase our leadership in human and planetary health.

Other

• Support Simple Mills Climate Action Plan through data collection and target setting.
• Support Innovation team to embed human and planetary health tenets into product design.
• Support Sales team to share human and planetary health initiatives with retailers.

Perform other projects as assigned.

Position Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in sustainability, agriculture, packaging, or related field within the CPG industry
• Bachelor’s degree required in a related field such as environmental science, agricultural science, agricultural policy, sustainability, or engineering.
• Master’s degree in a related field strongly preferred.
• Deep knowledge of sustainability, supply chain logistics, agriculture, and packaging materials
• Experience with sustainability and climate reporting standards, frameworks, and certifications, such as GRI, BCorp, and the Science Based Targets Initiative
• Exceptional writing skills and ability to distill complex concepts into digestible language.
• Strong research skills and ability to substantiate claims using scientific journal articles.
• Entrepreneurial, self-starter mindset with the ability to navigate ambiguity and creatively problem solve.
• Experience working directly with farmers or on farms preferred.
• Ability to support cross-functional projects with varying levels of complexity.
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint proficiency
• Passion around the power of food to impact human and planetary health outcomes.

If you have a background in farming and you meet some but not all of the above criteria, we strongly encourage you to apply. We deeply value skills and perspectives from agricultural and related spaces and invite those applicants who may have experience through alternate channels to apply for consideration.

Benefits of Working at Simple Mills

• You will make a huge impact as a key member of an emerging brand that’s changing the way we eat and facing explosive growth
• Working with a vibrant community of passionate team members that are driven by healthy food that tastes good and fuels your body
• We strive to foster and embed a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion across our organization. We know it is not only critical to the success of diversity initiatives – but instrumental in creating an equitable and inclusive workplace! It also creates a positive employee experience. DEI will remain at the center of our people strategy as grow and scale our organization.
• Our culture is aligned with doing good in the world and we are committed to the environment, fairness to employees and to our customers
• Integrating into a company that is passionate about its people and their development, with consistent training and multiple forums/platforms to participate in, contribute to and learn from
• Employee benefits include robust Health Benefits packages, 401(k) plan, Unlimited PTO offering, one-time stipend for getting your home workspace setup, monthly cell phone/internet stipend, health & wellness stipends, product stipends and many other perks!

Compensation will be competitive for the ideal candidate. The salary range expectation for this role is $110,000 – $130,000. This position will be in-office at our Mill Valley, CA location. Simple Mills follows CDC recommendations to help insure a safe working environment for all individuals in-office. Remote working may be considered as necessary from a designated location in the United States (the new hire’s permanent residence, as documented in our HR System, Rippling). Sufficient internet access to support video conferencing is required.

At Simple Mills, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect and inclusion. Equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, past or present military service, physical or mental disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. All aspects of employment are decided on the basis of business need, job requirements, and individual qualifications. #LI-DNI

Simple Mills is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Simple Mills will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodations are needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact careers@simplemills.com.