Daily Sustainability Job Post

Job title: Product Stewardship & Sustainability Manager

Division: All

Department: Global Sustainability

Country: Netherlands

Region: Global (US,EU,SA)

Plant: HQ

Territory/Sector: Global

Reports into: Vice President Sustainability

Mobility required: max 25%

2 Direct reports

• Improving Trivium Packaging competitiveness with regards to environmental sustainability reporting
• Taking care for Trivium Packaging environmental management processes and systems
• Optimize enterprise Product Compliance processes.
• Improve customer satisfaction by developing global web-based product compliance and sustainability systems, reducing internal workload and improving customer response time.
• Providing an effective sustainability link between the company’s locations and other staff functions (HR, procurement, commercial, marketing, legal counsel, finance)

Lead Trivium Packaging’s environmental reporting programs and drive positive results

Drive forward ongoing improvement –by among others identifying and communicating sustainability reporting and ranking opportunities and lead improvement

Positioning Trivium Packaging as the leading responsible company in sustainability reporting (e.g. through alignment with customer expectations and reporting developments)

Prepare presentations and reports for senior leadership

Work together with all 57 plants and the global commercial teams to collect the required data for the submissions of the reporting tools.

Implement web-based product compliance and sustainability data management tool

Define the roadmap for global implementation plan. Manage project budget. Present options to the wider team and run the implementation after alignment.  Develop content for the tool and work with 3rd parties to roll out.

IT tool project manager role. Work with procurement, R&D and business partners to create an interface that is user friendly and meeting the product stewardship requirements for now and in the future.

Manages / coordinate sustainability & product compliance integration projects throughout the global organization

You will work both independently as well as part of a team on specific strategic projects – this can include managing a whole project work stream independently

Control, monitor and develop cross functional sustainability targets and year plans with department

Coordinate and monitor product stewardship developments, among others global REACH and food compliance to  identify and implement improvements

Motivate sustainability champions in different function engaging in sustainability development.

Yearly alignment on the teams KPI’s and year plans

• Sustainability Reporting and Ranking publications
• KPI development of cross function team
• # Effective learning and development tools developed in and externally
• # external downloads from compliance and sustainability data tool

• Being able to work with and report from different ranking and analytics tools.
• Global manager with a significant focus on internal alignment
• Develop a diverse training and development program for in and external stakeholders

• Regional sustainability managers
• Research and development teams
• Procurement teams
• Commercial managers

• Consulting Partners
• Auditors
• Sustainability reporting organizations

• Define ranking tools and requirements as well as setting up the projects incl international teams to obtain the right data
• Year plan for the implementation of the main tasks
• Product compliance and sustainability web-based tool design and functionality
• Welcomed to develop creative and new initiatives to drive continues sustainability & product stewardship improvements

Experience:

• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in an sustainability analytical role (e.g., customer intelligence, consultancy or other relevant employment)
• At least 5 years’ experience in product compliance (REACH food compliance etc)
• Experience and/or exposure with ratings/ranking agencies and associated players
• Excellent ability to run advanced search techniques
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills; capable of driving insight to action;
• Experience with one or more advanced sustainability reporting tools for example: CDP, Ecovadis, Sedex, tools linked to GHG protocol etc
• Fluent in English; ability to speak another language (e.g., Dutch, German, French, Spanish) is an advantage
• A master’s degree in business, science or engineering with an excellent academic track record

Competencies:

• Push to exceed expectations:
  • Sets continually higher goals that are ambitious but realistic for self and team, geared to organizational objectives
  • Ability to translate sustainability objectives into goals and metrics and create engagement in the sustainability program amongst stakeholders
  • Willing and able to encourage colleagues to set out of their comfort zone to drive results beyond expectation
• Leading Change
  • Demonstrated experience organizing and leading a diverse group of internal contributors and stakeholders to achieve objectives
  • Drive positive change by leading by example
• Analytic thinking and knowledge development:
  • Written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to confidently facilitate working sessions with key stakeholders at all levels.
  • This role requires significant stakeholder engagement, project management, strategic planning and writing skills
  • Shown a passion for clear numbers and correct data analytics

Must be:

Analytical and structured, Team player, Positive Pace setter, Courageous leader by example, Entrepreneurial spirit, Proactive and able to get things done in a timely manner, Experience in working in a complex matrix environment, Proven operational and strategic leadership skills