Sustainability Reporting Specialist - Toronto, Canada - McCain Foods (G.B.) Ltd

Description

Position Title:
Sustainability Reporting Specialist


Position Type:
Regular - Full-Time


Requisition ID: 19459

We know the importance that food plays in people's lives - the power it has to bring people, families and communities together.

At McCain, our purpose is to celebrate real connections, through delicious, planet-friendly food.

The individual will own relationships with a range of stakeholders to lead sustainability reporting, including managing all disclosures and requests in line with increasing ESG reporting requirements, external standards and benchmarks (such as GRI, SASB, TCFD, World Benchmarking Alliance, Carbon Disclosure Project).

The individual will also support the regional and commercial teams with stakeholder reporting queries related to material sustainability topics.

If you are passionate about being part of a dynamic, global team and can lead stakeholders whilst dealing with complex topics and remaining empathetic to their challenges, this could be the job for you.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the production of McCain's corporate public Sustainability Report, coordinating with functions (including finance, procurement, agriculture, HR, communications) to ensure robust communication of the business's performance through data and storytelling.
• Project manage and oversee the data collection process for sustainability targets and KPI's, with support from a Senior Data Analyst.
• Strengthen global sustainability reporting processes and systems to ensure robust and accurate sustainability data.
• Lead the evolution and alignment towards external sustainability reporting standards and manage work with rating agencies, including Carbon Disclosure Project, GRI etc.
• Support the further integration of ESG considerations into strategic processes and reporting.
• Support the commercial team with supply chain related sustainability reporting for McCain's customers and other stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in corporate sustainability reporting and/or communications.
• Strong understanding of environmental and social sustainability topics, preferably, knowledge of key sustainability challenges, including netzero strategies, climate change risk, emerging ESG requirements and legislation.
• Excellent understanding of sustainability and ESG measurement and reporting, including linkages with various external reporting frameworks.
• Hands on experience in the development and delivery of corporate sustainability and communication reports. Some experience of external assurance would be an advantage.
• Ability to analyse and interpret data and provide detailed and strategic performance narrative.
• The ability to distil qualitative and quantitative information on leading practices, new approaches, and competitor performance to support strengthened reporting, with a strong attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to coordinate and deliver large projects with a diverse stakeholder base

Core Competencies & Leadership:


Accountability:
Promotes a sense of urgency and establishes accountability, provides balanced feedback at the most critical times


Collaborates:
Models collaboration across the organization, balances own interests with others, promotes high visibility of shared contributions to goals. _Enjoy having a lot autonomy, whilst working collaboratively within a dynamic team_


Courage:
Can tackle tough assignments independently


Being Resilient:
Maintains a positive attitude and forward-thinking approach, takes constructive action to navigate difficult situations, source of confidence in high pressure situations

• McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, meritbased, and equitable workplace. As a global familyowned 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._
• Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the _Global Privacy Policy_

Job Family:
Manufacturing; Engineering & Technical; Procurement; Quality & Food Safety; Research & Development; Supply Chain & Logistics


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