Sustainable Finance Lead
6 days ago
The world is facing a global climate crisis and a global biodiversity crisis, to which unsustainable agriculture and associated habitat loss and degradation are huge contributors. Feeding 10 billion people sustainably by 2050, within the planetary boundaries, is the greatest challenge of our lifetime.
Are you a leader in sustainable finance, with the organisation and drive to re-imagine global agriculture and food systems at the heart of the world's most ambitious food and ingredients business?
With reach in over 60 countries as well as employing 62,500 globally, Olam's scope for impact on our global challenge is huge. Olam is a leading supplier of verified, sustainable and certified products, sourcing directly from around 740,000 farmers and suppliers in sustainability programmes. Olam's digital information systems collect a huge volume of granular environmental data, ranging from smallholders in tropical cotton and cashew landscapes to extensive, high-tech estate crops from Australia (Almonds) to Zambia (Coffee).
Through Olam's purpose to 'Re-imagine Global Agriculture and Food Systems', Olam aims to address the many challenges involved in meeting the needs of a growing global population, while achieving positive impact for farming communities, the planet and all stakeholders.
Olam's landmark achievements include the world's first large scale Climate Smart Cocoa smallholder programme, the first coffee estates certified to the Alliance for Water Stewardship Standard, the largest RSPO-certified palm estates in Africa, and the creation of AtSource: the breakthrough agri-sustainability insights platform.
**You will have the opportunity to**:
- Develop and design environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies and initiatives and ensure that they meet overall corporate and strategic objectives
- Drive and enable implementation of ESG initiatives through extensive project management; Track and monitor initiatives through the development of performance indicators, target-setting, tracking of progress against targets, etc.
- Work closely with various teams, including Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CRS), Manufacturing and Technical Services (MATS), Finance, Risk Management, Human Resources and various Business Units (BUs) to drive quarterly meetings to track and monitor ESG initiatives
- Lead and facilitate the design and development of a digital platform to collate, drive, track and comprehensively report sustainability performance and targets at country/ BU level
- Conduct and lead content for key meetings and presentations to the Olam Board, Olam shareholders, project sponsors and other senior leaders on the progress of sustainability projects
- Oversee the collection and analysis of data from relevant internal stakeholders
- Lead the development of the annual sustainability report
**You will**:
- Have a strong passion for sustainability and be keen to make an impact on the ground in the agriculture sector
- Possess c.10 years of experience in sustainability services at a consulting firm or in-house sustainability management especially in the agriculture and food industry
- Be well-versed in relevant sustainability guidelines and frameworks (e.g. Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), TCFD)
- Possess superior analytical aptitude and proactive problem-solving abilities
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