Senior Sustainability Manager

McCormick & Company is seeking a Senior Sustainability Manager in Kentucky to execute and operationalize its Sustainability and CSR Strategy. Key responsibilities include supporting sustainable sourcing, collaborating with buyers and suppliers, developing long-term strategies, and overseeing community support and women empowerment initiatives. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and 5-10 years of relevant experience in project management and CSR. Strong communication skills are essential.
McCormick & Company, Incorporated, a global leader in flavor, is located in Hunt Valley, MD. With $4 billion in annual sales, the company manufactures markets and distributes spices, seasoning mixes, condiments and other flavorful products to the entire food industry - retail outlets, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Every day, no matter where or what you eat, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. McCormick Brings Passion to Flavor™.

As an employer recognized for our exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick & Co., Inc. offers a wide variety of benefits, programs and services which address the needs of employees and their families. McCormick's benefits include, but are not limited to medical & dental, life insurance, pension, paid holidays and vacations.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

The primary purpose of this role is to execute and operationalize MGIL’s Sustainability and CSR Strategy.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Support Sustainable sourcing to deliver corporate commitments on
• Iconics material: Oregano, Cinnamon
• Super 7 :Thyme and Sage

Collaborate with the buyers and the suppliers to ensure the yearly targets are delivered, (tools: Farmer support Projects and certification, Manage and initiate multistakeholder projects…)

Develop own and operationalize long term strategy to meet objectives laid out properly
• Acquire firsthand knowledge and develop credibility with suppliers and internal stakeholders through origin visits

Own strategic development and become subject matter expert of the following cross functional topics:
• Community Support: continuous improvement of McCormick’s approach to community support by leveraging existing tools (suppliers grants, Sustainable certification…) ensure impact monitoring and project reporting.
• Women empowerment: deploy the full Women empowerment framework to demonstrate McCormick’s leadership on this sustainability Pilar that includes:
• Deployment of the monitoring and evaluation tool
• Roll out women empowerment activities
• Report on progress and milestones
• Communication and corporate reporting contact point
• Redaction of quarterly newsletter to update MGIL team and McCormick targeted audience on quarterly progress
• Support Communication team for corporate sustainability report
• Support investor relation team and PLP reporting to fulfill various voluntary benchmarks
• Sedex and Smeta :
• Coordinate Sedex and Smeta roll out
• Reporting findings to Buyers
• Track progress

Support overall PLP Agenda:
• Own the Budget tracking
• Own the PLP volume tracking
• Participate in MGIL’s Value Proposition monthly meetings
• Participate in Various PLP update meetings

REQURIED QUALIFICATIONS
• Bachelor's Degree in International business / development, Social Science, Environmental Science
• 5-10 years’ experience managing projects, data analysis. Specific experience in CSR and / or international development would be an advantage. Has working knowledge of Sustainability/CSR process. Is expected to independently research other options, develop project plan/proposals and initiate discussions with supervisor to gain alignment / approvals. Has proven effective verbal and written communication skills. Has demonstrated effective execution skills with some direction or oversight provided.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English will be required to enable effective communication up down and across the organization. Sustainability Partners, Suppliers, Communications, Regulatory, Finance, Legal, . Corp Sustainability Leadership – Occasional . Regulatory – Occasional . Corp Communications – Regular . Finance – Occasional . Suppliers – Occasional . Legal – Occasional
• Organization - Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills. Computer- Good knowledge of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Project. Project administration and management. Communication skills.

#LI-SZ1

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
• Masters Degree in International business / development, Social Science, Environmental Science
• Several years for managing in emerging countries project is a plus
• Ability to work in French, Spanish

McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.