Sustainable Sourcing Transparency & Traceability Manager – Nature

Be at the heart of the food revolution: use sourcing as a leverage for change and transform the business as a force for good. As a member of a global Sustainable Sourcing team contribute to define and drive the implementation of Danone’s environmental and social ambitions in our global supply chain

As part of Danone Renew strategy, the company reframed its sustainability journey, articulated around 3 pillars: Health, Nature and People & Communities. For each pillar, Danone defines a new set of priorities which are translated into mid to long-term objectives, focusing on where the company can deliver the most impact and value. To ensure success in achieving this ambition, Danone is building a dedicated capability focused coordinating our Supplier Engagement, Traceability & Internal Comms strategies working inside a global team and Cycles & Procurement.

The role will have a strong focus on Carbon & Deforestation but will span across Environmental and Human rights topics with a strong element of project management.

Key responsibilities:

TRACEABILITY & TRANSPARENCY TOOL

• Lead the identification and development of traceability solution(s)/ tools for nature (Forest/EU Deforestation Regulation, Carbon Footprint calculation) in collaboration with internal teams (COE, IT, Data & insgights) and external partners.
• Build & Animate dashboards to communicate progress on our DIJ KPIs.
• Support categories on internal upskilling of buyers on traceability topics/tools, as needed.
• Coordinate traceability strategy for ingredients & packaging materials, including recommendations on data that must be collected for each category and organization (external support &/Or internal upskill).

SUPPLIER ENGAGEMENT

• Coordinate the supplier engagement strategy across categories for our Danone Impact Journey topics (Current main priorities include Carbon & Forest).
• Monitoring: Own the supplier engagement tool, coordinating its deployment and becoming a SPOC for the C&P community.
• Communication & outreach:
• • Engaging with suppliers on the topic of climate change can take many different forms, ranging from informing them about your climate strategy, bringing the topic up in meetings, providing incentives, to enforcing climate action by requesting suppliers to decarbonize (see procurement criteria for this solution).
  • Engaging with C&P Community to understand DIJ and work towards to company goals.
• Create and deploy trainings & resources for suppliers.
• Reporting: Support data consolidation from different categories for yearly reporting on supplier engagement (particularly for climate, forest, water).