Senior Manager, Human Rights & Supplier Sustainability
Now more than ever, global businesses like ours must do more to ensure that work empowers people. Our success in growing the business while delivering positive impacts for people and planet depends on high performing suppliers and supply chains.
That’s where you come in.
Mars is hiring a Senior Manager, Supplier Sustainability to lead the strategy of our tier-one supplier sustainability compliance & performance program. This work is focused on advancing respect for human rights in Tier 1 factories - through new ways of collaboration, skill building and engagement. It is a business-critical role, essential to our global Sustainable in a Generation Plan commitments, our Purpose and the expectations of customers, consumers, and key stakeholders around the world.
The Senior Manager will lead our Tier 1 supplier program - Next Generation Supplier - as well as portions of our approach to addressing human rights risks at the origin of key raw materials. These programs are all about generating deep insights on the sustainability performance of key suppliers, coupled with longer-term expert collaboration and coaching to improve supplier management systems and workplace conditions.
As a sustainability & business and human rights expert, the Senior Manager will be accountable for ensuring continued robust technical design of the Tier 1 supplier program, streamlining how it is deployed by Commercial colleagues across the business, and evolving processes to track & measure its impact. Additionally, this leader will be responsible for strong external & internal visibility of this work. The Senior Manager will have outstanding skills in influencing, collaboration and communication.
What we’re looking for:
What you’ll be doing:
Strategy and governance associated with Next Generation Supplier is designed, benchmarked and evolved by the person in this role, in close collaboration with Legal and Commercial teams.
Programs designed and deployed with suppliers are robust, comprehensive and best-practice approaches to enable people to thrive by driving meaningful improvements in their lives. They are time-bound with specific investments in stepped-up performance and continuous improvement of management systems and social conditions in workplaces.
This role works closely with Commercial and Sustainability colleagues in each segment to shape program design briefs, implementation plans, third party expert recruitment, training and engagement, and annual reviews.
Scope is across the Tier 1 supplier workplaces of top 10 raw materials (rice, fish, beef, soy, palm oil, pulp & paper, cocoa, mint, dairy and sugar cane) & other strategic suppliers.
Work closely with other members of Thriving People leadership team and segment colleagues to align metrics and reporting to coincide with relevant internal and external timeframes.
Manage outside vendors efficiently and effectively to deliver program impact.
About Mars, Incorporated
Mars is a manufacturer of pet food, confectionery, and other food products.
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