Sustainability Procurement Manager

Greene King • Full-time • Burton upon Trent, England • 3w ago

Company Description

As a Sustainability Procurement Manager you be responsible for our supplier sustainability programme , ensuring that those businesses from which we purchase align with our sustainability journey and business values, and so can support our sustainability goals. This will involve managing the process of supplier engagement, setting targets and working with suppliers to ensure that they are delivered. The role covers all Group procurement.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.

Job Description

Applications will close on Friday 27th December

In your role as Sustainability Procurement Manager you will be...

Setting up and managing our supplier sustainability programme, including building our sustainability requirements for different supply chains and suppliers and ensuring that all materially relevant supply chains are included in the programme.
Managing the GK Engage platform, ensuring we have the material suppliers from our supply chains uploaded to the platform and supporting Procurement teams with information and analysis for their engagement with suppliers.
Liaison with and management of our third-party delivery partner for the engagement platform, working collaboratively with them to deliver the requirements of the platform and holding them to account for deliverables.
Engaging key suppliers on sustainability to understand their strategies, targets and progress and how this aligns with our sustainability requirements, including Net Zero transition for our Scope 3 emissions.
Managing engagement with suppliers for other matters as required, including but not limited to Modern Slavery and new legal requirements (e.g. deforestation regulation).
Supporting Procurement teams on the sustainability implications of selecting different suppliers in sourcing decisions.
Supporting Procurement teams with technical knowledge.
Managing the production of knowledge and upskilling materials on sustainability for suppliers that allows them to better meet our supplier sustainability requirements.

What you’ll bring…

Technical/ professional
Experience operating in a procurement/ buying/ supply chain role in a large organisation.
Experience of sustainability issues in procurement.
Experience gained in a procurement sustainability role in a similarly complex supply chain preferred.
Experience in managing across multiple product categories
BA/BS/Batchelors Degree or experience in lieu thereof
Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem solving abilities.
Clean current driving licence
IT literate - Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Office

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Additional Information

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career.
Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could receive £1,500 for referring them!
Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

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