Responsible Sourcing Manager - Climate and Scope 3

Responsible Sourcing Manager (Climate and Scope 3) – Bakkavor Group Services

We rise to challenges together

£65,000-£75,000 depending on experience plus £8,400 car allowance, up to 20% company bonus scheme and private medical insurance, plus benefits listed below.

Based at Bakkavor Spalding, with a Hybrid working model, 3 days office, 2 days remote

Monday-Friday - 08:30am-17:00pm

Contract Type – Permanent

Why join us?

We’re ready for anything. We thrive on challenge and change. The undeniable pressure and pace of our 24/7 operation keeps us on our toes and offers a variety of career pathways and options to explore and pursue. We encourage everyone to work hard, push further and show resilience. And it’s exciting. Because only by mentoring and role modelling our success and innovation, will we continue to diversify, grow as individuals and succeed together.

What we do

We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious. We’re full of ideas. And we’re ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

About the role.

This is an exciting new opportunity, for a Responsible Sourcing Manager (Climate and Scope 3) to join our exciting and expanding Bakkavor Group Services Team. The successful candidate will be responsible for implementing and overseeing the environmental and climate-related supply chain strategy.

The role involves working with suppliers to reduce carbon emissions, energy usage, waste, and other environmental factors. The role is to ensure the right systems are in place to capture relevant supply chain data. The role requires supplier engagement and management to ensure the supply chain is aligned to and delivers against the Bakkavor responsible sourcing goals.

Establish a governance process to track, measure, and reduce the carbon footprint of the supply chain, including Scope 3 emissions and waste. Collaborate with suppliers to establish and meet climate targets for reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Develop an environmental risk assessment which will help to identify areas of vulnerability in the Bakkavor supply chain related to climate change, deforestation, water management, waste management, and biodiversity loss. Facilitate cross functional team working on supplier measures of performance and risk, to better inform sourcing strategies and recipe development. Responsible for the collection and reporting of supply chain environmental data, ensuring compliance with responsible sourcing strategy and relevant regulations. Ensure data is accurate and available for use in Bakkavor reporting. Lead the engagement with key stakeholders on emerging trends and industry innovations, regulations and opportunities, to share best practice with the Bakkavor supply chain, to align with the Bakkavor Responsible Sourcing plan and deliver the ESG targets. Ensure retail customer requirements for environmental monitoring and climate change data reporting are taken into account when assessing the overall impact and requirements for the Bakkavor business and suppliers. Represent the Bakkavor business at retail customer meetings on the supply chain environmental and climate change plans. Sharing data and aligning to customer requirements. Ensure effective communication with all stakeholders to ensure the right decisions are made for Bakkavor and the supply chain, to meet the targets set out in RS strategies Ensure that you are operating in a safe manner and in a safe environment at all times. Working with the SHE teams in Bakkavor to identify risk mitigation where necessary.

About you.

Excellent communicator at all levels, internally and externally Excellent influencing skills to bring about effective alignment or change with key stakeholders. Adept at understanding and implementing business systems that will help drive change and deliver on targets. Good level of influencing skills, to work with suppliers, customers and sites at senior levels. Minimum 5 years in food or related industry, preferably in a supply chain role or environmental sustainability or climate change role. Proven track record of working with and influencing global supply chains Understanding of Scope 3 objectives.

What you’ll receive.

As an equal opportunity employer, we’re committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive in. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

You’ll enjoy:

Life Assurance (2.5 x salary) Short Term Bonus Scheme up to 20% of annual salary 25 days holiday plus bank holidays Staff Shop Stakeholder Pension Scheme MyBargains Discount Platform Personal Accident Insurance Free Independent Mortgage Advice Employee Assistance Programme A Range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans) Discounted tutoring for children Access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary Private Medical Insurance (employee & family cover) Cash allowance (car) - £8,400 Free Carparking

Plus, a commitment to your wellbeing that includes emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

Proud to be Bakkavor

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry. We’re proud to supply meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury’s and Waitrose. We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business – come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team!

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