Head of Sustainable Sourcing - London, United Kingdom - Fairtrade Foundation

Fairtrade Foundation

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job title:
Head of Sustainable Sourcing

Salary:
£61,245 per annum

Location:
London, E1 (Hybird)**
Contract/Hours: Full time 35 hours per week, Permanent

The Fairtrade Foundation are recruiting for a strong team manager and technical expert for the role of Head of Sustainable Sourcing to lead Fairtrade's work developing & implementing sustainable supply chain strategies and the successful end to end journey of our licensees that will deliver increased impact for producers and grow the UK market for Fairtrade.

Fairtrade drives change through changing trade and in this role, you will lead, manage and motivate a team of senior managers, managers and officers responsible for the delivery of Fairtrade's impact goals - ensuring Fairtrade's interventions address the most important sustainability challenges across economic, environmental and social issues.

This role will be leading across key commodities such as Cocoa, Coffee, Bananas, Tea, Gold and Flowers and across all our licensees.

You will need to be a very strong team leader and strategic thinker with a growth mind-set with strong expertise in international development and/or sustainable supply chains.

Leading supply chain risk management, building solutions and driving forward opportunities to reduce environmental and human rights risks in supply chains.

The role is key for Fairtrade's external profile and external relationship management. You will lead our UK partnerships with key intermediary partners supplying retail, brands and out of home partners (e.g. packers, roasters, traders, manufacturers, refiners) providing supply chain expertise and leading the support more broadly and all along the value chain to drive improved business practices in our retail, OOH and brand partners.

You will act as an ambassador for Fairtrade proactively looking for opportunities to speak on platforms and at conferences and creating opportunities to communicate and to convene stakeholders to share Fairtrade's sustainable supply chain expertise and approaches externally and internally.

Working in close partnership with the global Fairtrade movement - Fairtrade International, National Fairtrade Organisations, FLO-Cert and Producer Networks - you will deliver an integrated global strategy for positive change for producers.

At Fairtrade we are committed to the safeguarding and protection of children & vulnerable adults in our work.

We will do everything possible to ensur_e that only those who are suitable to work within this environment are recruited to work for us.

Therefore, for this specific role a Basic DBS check will be needed as part of an offer of employment._

Closing date: 3 June am)

First stage interviews will take place on Monday 10th
June 2024

Contract:
Permanent
Role Purpose

The Partnerships directorate consists of the following teams; Partnership Development, Responsible Business, Sustainable Sourcing, Programmes Partnerships and Evidence and Insights.

Together, they are responsible for delivering full value holistic partnerships to improve the lives of farmers and workers by delivering sustainable and resilient supply chains through full-value partnerships and maximising income growth for the Foundation.

We do this through certified sourcing, thematic interventions, evidence and insight, advocacy and stakeholder engagement.

The Sustainable Sourcing team is responsible for developing & implementing sustainable supply chain strategies and the successful end-to-end journey of our licensees that will deliver increased impact for producers.

The Head of Sustainable Sourcing leads this area of our work by:

Playing a key role in the Partnerships Directorate Leadership Team to deliver our ambition and strategy and to achieve our income targets.

Developing UK strategies for the key Fairtrade commodities to deliver on Fairtrade's impact goals - ensuring Fairtrade's interventions address the most important sustainability challenges across economic, environmental and social issues.

Enabling stakeholders to proactively address the salient human rights within their supply chains, supporting the growing wider movement for businesses to address these issues through Modern Slavery Act, UN Guiding Principles and Human Rights Due Diligence strategies.

Leading our partnerships with key intermediary partners supplying retail, brands and out of home partners (e.g. packers, roasters, traders, manufacturers, refiners), providing deep supply chain expertise support more broadly and all along the value chain to drive improved business practices in our retail, OOH and brand partners. Including also, maintaining and building engagement with industry bodies and forums.

Improving the transparency and quality of information delivered to our commercial partners, working with Evidence and Insights team on delivering comprehensive "impact packages" to a selection of our business partners.

Providing commodity and supply cha