Sustainability Program Manager

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Location: Vevey, Switzerland

Company: Nespresso International

Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%

Type of contract: Temporary contract, 1 year

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development

Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces

Dynamic international working environment

Position Summary

Attractive additional benefits

Are you passionate about sustainability, innovative solutions and the significant role that business plays in addressing climate change, protecting biodiversity, and increasing the resilience of the farming communities? We are looking for a “Sustainability Program Manager”, who is a combination of influencer, advisor, and expert, to support Nespresso‘s ambition to accelerate the implementation of Regenerative Coffee Agriculture. This strategic position will also galvanize collective intelligence of internal and external stakeholders to design performance framework and raise the bar of practices in the industry.

Through the regenerative agriculture agenda, Nespresso reaffirms its commitment to sustainable agriculture, a journey started in 2003 with the Rainforest Alliance and based on the belief that high quality coffees can only be produced by healthy ecosystems and resilient communities. Nespresso foresees Regenerative coffee agriculture as a profitable agriculture based on Nature which regenerates soils, watersheds, and ecosystems, which is low carbon and captures carbon from the atmosphere and ultimately which achieves farming community resilience.

We are the Nestlé Nespresso SA Company and are proud to be one of the fastest growing operating unit of Nestlé. Our passionate, entrepreneurial-minded team has transformed Nespresso into the reference in portioned coffee and one of the world’s most trusted brands. Our growth comes from our commitment to innovation in order to pioneer and be the reference in the portioned coffee sector to provide the very highest quality coffees that could be enjoyed in the comfort of consumers’ own homes and also savored at out-of-home locations, such as restaurants, hotels, offices and luxury retail businesses. Our direct to farmer relationship sourcing model with 120,000 farmers in 15 countries help us secure the sustainable quality of our raw material. The careful approach , in how we manufacture and market our premium coffee products as well as manage their recycling, ensure a consistent promise to coffee lovers. With corporate headquarters in Vevey, Switzerland, Nespresso is present in over 80 countries and counts over 13,000 employees worldwide. To learn more visit www.nespresso.com.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

A day in the life of Sustainability Program Manager

Reporting to the sustainability strategy department of Nespresso, you will provide leadership on regenerative coffee agriculture, develop internal expertise and cascade guidance, build capabilities at headquarter to monitor progress and performance, ensure credibility and trust with external stakeholders. You will act as a catalyst for change, contributing to the agro-ecology transition of the coffee agriculture.

• Leverage and enhance the regenerative agriculture strategy, orchestrating the cross-functional platform and facilitating the stakeholder relationship management
• Structure the regenerative agenda into key streams and report progress against company commitments within agreed procedures, timescales
• Build inhouse expertise on carbon, water accounting and biodiversity performance and soil health for reporting and decision making.
• Develop collaboratively key assets of the regenerative agriculture journey of Nespresso such as a credible and robust monitoring and Evaluation Framework, guidebooks, dashboards, technical source documents towards communicants, training, etc…
• Explore innovative solutions, build the business case for scale up (from proof of concept to business case for full operationalization)
• Facilitate a community of experts, defining the best governance and processes to strengthen the regenerative roadmap and performance measurement
• Manage the yearly collaboration with key global partners (from strategic to communication)
• Continuously monitor external & internal trends and issues, and advise for roadmap adaptation
  
  

What Will Make You Successful

• University degree, master or equivalent.
• Specialization in CSR could be a plus
• 7-to-10-year professional experience with strong project management and facilitation/engagement skills
• Extensive experience in strategic planning, project management and facilitation
• Forward and out-of-the-box thinking, inspired by a good knowledge and understanding of real cases of transformative projects
• Has an ability to extensively engage with internal and external stakeholders
• Demonstrates analytical skills and ability to generate simple messages from complex insights
• Ability to work in a multinational and multistakeholder environment
• Speaking, reading and writing communication skills in English (French, Spanish and Portuguese would be a plus
  

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.

We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.

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