Sustainable Procurement Consultant

About the role:

Unwrap your full potential at Perfetti Van Melle. Perfetti Van Melle is one of the world's largest manufacturers and distributors of sugar confectionery. They create imaginative products and brands that are enjoyed in over 150 countries. In this role, you will support the sustainability journey of familiar brands such as Mentos, Chupa Chups, Smint, and Fruittella. You will join a global organisation with 18K employees, 38 Operating Companies and 31 Manufacturing facilities spread worldwide.

What will you be doing?:

- Be a part of PVMs Group Procurement function and, working in close collaboration with PVMs Group Sustainability function, facilitate the execution of PVMs Sustainable Sourcing strategy.

- Support the creation of policies and share expertise on responsible sourcing, due diligence, traceability, and reporting within the entire value chain.

- Collect environmental and social data from suppliers, whilst executing and ensuring smart analysis, seamless communication, pragmatic digitalization, and data exchange with all partners.

- Contribute to different projects aimed at ensuring that PVM Procurements systems, processes, and procedures comply with PVMs traceability and sustainability objectives.

- Working with your line manager, the Procurement Sustainability Lead, you will be responsible for ensuring adherence to all relevant government regulations as well as voluntary certification schemes for PVMs value chains.

- Build, grow and nurture stakeholder relationships, deliver data as needed, and publish agreed reports and other metrics on a fixed frequency, including various sustainability targets and carbon reduction plans for Scope 3 emissions.

- Work together with stakeholders across various functions, including Regulatory, R&D and Legal.

- Facilitate and support systemic change internally and bridge technical solution gaps, with a focus on achieving longer-term change management and integration into business practices.

- Actively collaborate with suppliers through training programs and initiatives designed to facilitate the implementation and ongoing monitoring of ESG standards.

- Prepare and contribute to the regular progress updates for the Procurement Sustainability Lead with other functional leads and/or management.

- Proactively share knowledge with the Procurement Lead and make suggestions for need-based training for the operational procurement teams.

- Bring a business focussed and pragmatic approach to the achievement of PVMs Sustainability goals.

Who are you?:

- You have about 5+ years experience in Procurement or sourcing throughout the agrifood value chain.

- You have a keen interest in sustainability and wish to contribute to it.

- You have delivered data/contributed to measuring and reporting KPIs related to Scope 3 Goals, circularity, and social procurement within a multinational FMCG corporation.

- You know where to learn more on the evolving regulations such as CSRD, CSDDD, EUDR, and other forthcoming global regulatory frameworks.

- Clear understanding of and strong working experience in Supplier Certification Standards and audit schemes like SEDEX, etc.

- Commercially savvy, high level of numeracy, strong analytical and negotiation skills, a drive for action and the ability to bring a pragmatic approach to the role.

- Experience in contributing to the development and execution of a sustainable packaging procurement project or to environmental responsibility goals is a plus.

- Experience working in an international environment and cross-cultural communication, ability to demonstrate a sense of empathy and stakeholder management capabilities.