Sustainability Manager

We make pet food taste great! For over 30 years, AFB International has been providing pet food solutions that enrich the lives of pets and their people. Our palatants are specially designed to make pet foods, treats and supplements taste better, ensuring pets receive the vital nutrients they need. We know wagging tails, licking whiskers and empty bowls equal happy pets and happy pet parents. Join AFB and you'll be a part of a team of highly skilled professionals that provide the greatest contribution to our success as an organization. Our team members are diverse, creative, passionate experts who are genuinely dedicated to our mission, our customers, and the pets we serve worldwide.

Job Description

Summary:

The Global Sustainability Manager is responsible for the development, deployment, monitoring, and ongoing expansion of AFB's sustainability strategy across all regions. This role is responsible for implementation of policy, development of programs, and performance against goals and KPIs to achieve company and customer outcomes. In addition, the Global Sustainability Manager will cultivate and champion AFB's sustainability culture.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Strategy: responsible for leading AFB's global sustainability strategy ideation, planning and execution. Lead Voice of Customer initiatives, programs and policies to support the strategy.
• Culture: lead the global sustainability cross functional team in cultivating a robust "sustainability mindset" as part of AFB's culture and daily work. Help encourage and increase employee engagement with education and programs. Act as a liaison to EBI and connect with EBI Diversity, Equity & Inclusion team.
• Customer Requests: primary point of contact for completing all customer surveys regarding sustainability data, including leading customer audit requests (Ecovadis, Sedex, etc). Identify gaps and opportunities for AFB to develop and implement policies and procedures to improve AFB's reputation as a strategic supplier.
• 3rd Party Certifications - identify appropriate 3rd party certification and/or programs (SBTi, ISO14001, etc) to strengthen AFB's sustainability leadership. Lead coordination of all assessment requirements.
• Goals: set meaningful environmental targets (GHG, energy, water and waste reduction) that support AFB's sustainability strategy and support customers survey requests. Identify an accepted method of measurement that has global implementation application.
• Reporting: collaborate with the marketing communications team on ways to communicate AFB sustainability strategy internally and externally. Primary point of contact for reporting on goals progress, methodology and why they were chosen. Responsible for quantitative data necessary to generate and publish ESG reports.
• R&D Collaboration: product, process and research facility design and operation to enable achievement of sustainability KPIs. Critical to positioning AFB as a sustainability partner of choice.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This position will not have direct reports.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree from four-year college or university

• Three (3) to five (5) years related experience or training required

• Major(s): Sustainability, Environmental Sciences, Environmental Engineering
• Fluent English

Desired:

• MBA is a plus
• Multilingual

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual should have the following knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Knowledge and passion for sustainability. Will be seen as the expert within the company.
• Experience collecting, tracking, and conducting data analysis.
• Experience working with sustainability and environmental programs.
• Ability to communicate effectively in a multicultural, multinational environment and mobilize cross-functional high performance teams.
• Ability to effectively collaborate with others to reach mutually agreeable outcomes across functions and regions.

• Ability to lead a cross functional team in goal setting
• Exceptional project management capabilities
• Analytical mindset with ability to analyze and present data
• Ability to problem solve to understand root cause and then develop and implement policy to remediate the problem.
• Strong communicator who can articulate verbally and in writing effectively complex topics that are unfamiliar to decision makers.
• Able to learn self-directed without formal mentorship

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Light physical activity performing non-strenuous daily activities of an administrative nature

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet, but hearing protection may be required in certain situations. The working environment is typically well-lighted, heated and/or air-conditioned indoor office setting with adequate ventilation, but certain situations may require exposure to factory conditions and moving mechanical parts.

AFB International is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, genetic information, national origin, or veteran status.