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Position Title: Sustainability Lead

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time ​

Position Location: Scarborough 

Grade: Grade 06 

Requisition ID: 29351 

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There’s nothing beige about McCain…
Except our potatoes — and we’re extremely passionate about them. 

When you join McCain, you’ll be joining the biggest player in the frozen potato game, bringing people together around the nation for over 60 years by sharing simple, delicious planet friendly food.
We’ve partnered with thousands of the country’s supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, hospitals, and schools to change the way people see the humble spud. It’s all about elevation and creating something better. 

So, come and make your career at McCain Foods.

ABOUT THE ROLE.

Come and shape the future of Sustainability at McCain!

Sustainability is at the heart of McCain Foods, we see that people and the planet are integral to being a planet friendly business.

This Sustainability Lead will support the execution, rollout and measurement of our Sustainability commitments. As a key position within the Sustainability team, it is an amazing opportunity to become involved with a wide variety of Sustainability initiatives and projects across McCain. Sustainability is an ever evolving and interesting field, and this role has the opportunity to develop and evolve for someone who has the passion and interest.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with the Director Sustainability to deliver on our Sustainability targets.
• Data collection and reporting as required.
• Assist with projects and Sustainability initiatives.
• Promote a new way of thinking for colleagues to drive engagement and understanding in your area.
• Work with Commercial and Marketing on Communication to customers and consumers on initiatives with a focus on Thriving Communities and Packaging
• Work with leads and other business functions to create a volunteering roadmap including participation.
• Lead the Community Projects, with a focus on Community shop and realise the practicalities of implementing this.
• Engage in external commitments and working groups in relation to packaging including working with wider groups on EPR and Plastic Tax
• Work with Government and External Affairs team to share industry insights and activities that may influence policy.

• Facilitate, analyse and report back to the business the Thriving Community and Plastic targets.

Who we are looking for

Drive Results – Translate a strategy into viable plans and instigate action to achieve performance excellence.

Paint a Picture – Develop, communicate and support a clear vision and strategy for success and gain commitment to its achievement.

Builds and Maintains Relationships – Connect with and influence others to create and maintain relationships built on mutual respect, understanding and trust

Makes Smart Decisions – Use intuition, rational thinking and sound judgement in analysing and resolving issues.

Live & breathe the business – Understand the business as well as the impact of the external environment, including competitors.

Communicate Relentlessly – Openly and effectively share information, ideas, opinions and thoughts and attentively listen to and build on the ideas of others

Enable achievement – Develop challenging objectives aligned to the business strategy and provide the means to achieve and maintain performance excellence

ABOUT YOU.

• A passion for Sustainability and Ethics is essential.
• Experience leading projects
• Excellent Data Analytics and reporting capabilties
• Excellent communication skills – at all levels
• Strong Customer focus
• Ability to work flexible hours
• Dynamic decision maker
• Quick learner – capacity to pick up a process easily and then communicate ideas for improvement if appropriate.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships and influence internal and external stakeholders at all levels

Although we've outlined our preferred qualifications for this position, we understand that the perfect candidate might not tick every box listed here. We strongly believe in fostering growth within the role, so if you don't match every requirement, we still urge you to apply. You could be exactly the person we need! Apply today!

WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?

You’ll be pleased to know we don’t pay you in ‘chips’. As well as a competitive salary we also have some ‘a-peeling’ benefits including:

• A great pension plan — and we’ll pay double what you do, up to a maximum of 12% of your pay
• A very generous car allowance
• Flexible holidays — with the option to buy & sell up to 5 extra days per year
• ‘Chips In’ Volunteering Day Off — to make a positive impact in McCain communities across the globe
• Optional health cash plan
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunities to relocate in the future — we’re a worldwide business, so the opportunities are there for those who seek them

Where will i work? 

Being in the office every single day is a thing of the past. Here at McCain, we champion hybrid working.

This means we don’t have a set expectation of exactly when you need to be in the office

– however we would like to see you on a weekly basis as that’s the best place for us to build and maintain our connections.

Our head office (Customer Experience Centre) is on the outskirts of Scarborough – 1.5 hours away from Leeds City Centre, and about an hour from York. We have lots of colleagues who travel to and from our Experience Centre (even if it is just for a good coffee!) and because hybrid really does mean hybrid at McCain, they get the opportunity to collaborate with their colleagues when they’re in the office, and balance that with working from home to ensure they get a good life-work balance.

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McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace.  As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. 
 
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

The health and safety of McCain employees and their families has been our number one priority since the start of COVID-19 pandemic. With vaccination restrictions easing across the globe we do not currently require employees to be vaccinated, but we reserve the right to change this mandate in line with health guidance and regulations in each country.
 
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Job Family: Agriculture      
Division: GB Agriculture 
Department: ​GB Agriculture ​
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Company: McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd 

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