Sustainability & Projects Manager - West Africa at FAN MILK plc

Job Description

• We are looking for a new colleague who will lead the delivery of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability for Fan Milk West Africa, drive the strategic advocacy agenda of the group, and projects of the General Secretary department as may be assigned.

Responsibilities
The candidate will:

• Be responsible for creating and implementing an approach to CR&S that complements the business strategy in the areas of environment, social and governance (ESG) in line with regulatory expectations.
• Anticipate trends and evaluate ESG risks across the Fan Milk West Africa business to be a key driver for change in delivering ‘sustainable business growth’ for Fan Milk West Africa.
• Be responsible for projecting Fan Milk as an involved, responsible, and forward-thinking corporate citizen as a member of the Danone Group 
• Monitor and evaluate competitor activity and drive the implementation of coordinated response
• Own and drive assigned duties with a focus on improving top of mind awareness, perception, and consideration.
• Strongly support the growth of brand strength performance scores for the Fan Milk cluster of companies.
• Develop ‘just transition’ initiatives such as social inclusion projects for dairy farming (eg Ecosystem project)
• Coordinating B Corp certification
• Climate workstream à eg emissions reductions targets within the Danone Group and calculations (supporting Operations and R&I teams for example)
• “End of Life” workstream à C&P, Global Packaging and Circular Economy initiatives (eg ‘Reduce, Reuse, Recycle’ initiatives).

Requirements
Ideally you will have:

• Graduate Degree in Marketing, Social Sciences or related discipline
• 7 – 8 years’ experience in project management, communications or consulting, with at least 5 years in Sustainability projects  
• Demonstrable project management experience and training (2-3 years)
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Excellent presentation skills
• Good communication skills (in this case it ability to efficiently deal with stakeholders with different backgrounds.
• Presentation skills
• Organization skills.