Responsible Sourcing Specialist:
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness and humility, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied, flexible, and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with, befriend, and stretch your skills alongside. Every day, your energy, your creativity, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Responsible Sourcing Specialist – Your future position?
As a Responsible Sourcing Specialist, you will sit in the Global Sustainability Department of Givaudan under the guidance of the Global Head of Responsible Sourcing (RS) and works in close collaboration with the entire RS Team. The RS programs are focusing on social, environmental, management systems, and ethics and compliance aspects in our supply chains and at Givaudan sites and Joint Ventures. You will help implement the RS strategy and program, focusing on internal and external RS aspects and contributing to strategic projects while mainly supporting with the program overall administration.
Multiple location: Kemptthal (Switzerland), Argenteuil (France), Budapest (Hungary), Ashford (UK), Naarden (Netherlands), Dortmund (Germany), Valencia (Spain)
In this exciting role, you will:
Internal Responsible Sourcing Data Mgmt, Analytics and Reporting
Coordinate the responsible sourcing data (for our Naturals, Synthetics, Indirect Materials & Services) reporting KPI definition (Policy push, Due Diligence
Questionnaires, Supplier Audits, and Action Plans, Traceability information), and work with the relevant partners to ensure data integrity, consistency, and coordinated reporting
Apply analytics on Responsible Sourcing data to make sense of large amounts of information being produced as part of Sourcing4Good program efforts, which identify trends, highlights, and improvement opportunities for internal use cases and for customers and consumers. The analytics work will allow the team to improve on the current program and stay relevant to changing landscape.
Be a single contact (SPOC) with the Givaudan Global Sustainability Solutions (GSS) Team responsible for the Responsible Sourcing customer reporting process, with the Sustainability Excellence team working on the Digitalization of Sourcing4Good program and procurement representatives following needs
Support suppliers and sites during their Sustainability journey (training, internal and external audits, sustainability assurance process, target setting, communication)
External Responsible Sourcing Disclosure and Communications
Coordinate the Palm ACOP, SVI Vanilla, inputs for WBA, inputs for Ecovadis and other similar Responsible Sourcing linked external disclosures
Contribute to the annual reporting suite: Integrated Annual report & GRI report
Be a main contact at the corporate level to solve questions and provide evidence in the area of responsible sourcing, in collaboration with the other team members
Be a Responsible Sourcing contact point for our teams when preparing for and presenting the Responsible Sourcing efforts to the customer and other external partners
Responsible Sourcing Strategy and Programs
Support strategy and participate in program roll-outs such as the Sourcing4Good Sustainability digital roadmap, supplier scorecard, supplier due diligence and assessments, supply chain traceability, Advanced level projects with suppliers and customers, and other strategic ad-hoc projects
Support Responsible Sourcing Managers in their work, connecting the Sourcing4Good work being done with other company functions like Wider
Sustainability Team, Global Sustainability Solutions, and Sustainability Excellence
Your professional profile includes:
University degree in Sustainability, Engineering, Information Systems, Chemistry, or Procurement
At least 5 years of experience in Sustainability, Procurement, Information Systems, Chemistry, or Engineering
Knowledge of corporate procurement, responsible sourcing or sustainability aspects (knowledge of ingredient commodity supply chains, Forest ecosystems, procurement practices, Industry forums like CDP-Sedex-Ecovadis-TfS-AIM-Progress.;)
Some relevant experience in data management, due diligence, ethics & compliance aspects
Fluent in English
Knowledge of any advanced data analytics systems
Autonomous and comfortable with cross-functional set-ups
Customer and service focus, solution-oriented
Ability to travel (10%)
Our Benefits:
Flexibility in location (you can be based in almost any country in Europe)
Home office opportunity (hybrid working structure)
Great compensation package based on your location
Training and career development opportunities
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.
