Latest Job Vacancies at Lactalis South Africa

Job Description

• Join Lactalis at our offices in Western Cape and take on the challenge role as the Sustainability Manager . You will be responsible for their company’s marketing and overall branding image, prepare annual marketing plans, set the marketing budget and analyse the market and competitors. Guide the marketing department, including the work of brand managers   

Required Skills

• Tertiary (Bachelor) degree in Environmental Management or associated disciplines
• At least 8 years' relevant experience in similar environmental or sustainability or similar space
• Excellent communication and consultation skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Project management experience
• Fostering relationship with regulatory and compliance bodies

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develop and implement policies, strategies, processes and action plans to ensure implementation of the business sustainability strategies.
• Manage all sustainability programs with the relevant business units through research, analysis and advise to support our corporate sustainability strategies.
• Manage the coordination for all the fourteen sustainability pillars which includes, Health & Safety, Animal Health and Welfare, Energy and Environment, Climate and Carbon Footprint, Transport & Logistics, Responsible Packaging and Circular Economy, Nutrition and Responsible Marketing, Food Safety & Quality, Human Resources, Responsible Sourcing, Biodiversity & Forest Footprint, Milk Supply, Food Waste and Environmental Information and Life Cycle Analysis.
• Support the analytical needs of the sustainability and CSR teams inclusive of cleansing, mapping, statistical inferences, and reporting required for each programme/pillar.
• Develop specific environmental policies and procedures.
• Propose strategies to address various environmental concerns e.g., energy and water usage, waste management etc.
• Take charge of all Environmental Impact Assessment required for various business projects.
• Ensure regulatory compliance in relation to Trade Permits, Water Use Licenses and Waste Licensing
• GHG emission reporting and EPR processes
• Environment Monitoring and Compliance; physical monitoring, auditing
• Document ESG data gathering and quality assurance processes.
• Ensure periodic capturing, analysis and reporting of ESG indicators.
• Monitor key ESG indicators to track progress against targets.
• Establish and support the building of an ESG reporting platform/system.
• Establish an ESG dashboard with data visualizations to be used for internal and external reporting.
• Complete ESG rating agencies’ questionnaires and provide supporting documents.
• Review and improve internal quality assurance processes of data in collaboration with the audit teams