Sustainability Director

Are you interested in furthering your impact by setting up and leading the sustainability transformation within an international environment? Agrolimen is a €2.000M Spanish multinational, family-owned corporation, with 85 years of history and based in Barcelona-Spain. Agrolimen is financially very solid, operating leading brands in four Strategic Businesses: Human food Europe and Africa and Pet food in Europe and USA. Agrolimen has put sustainability at the core of its long-term strategy and is currently at the start of its journey. The key piece for its long-term success is having have the right resources in place to frame the strategic guidelines and accelerate the pace, hence Agrolimen has created a new strategic role for the Group, a Director of Sustainability. This is a senior position who reports directly to the Agrolimen Chief Strategy & Finance Officer, with regular contact with the Agrolimen CEO, Agrolimen Board and top management of the four Strategic Businesses. **Key Accountabilities**: - Lead the definition of Agrolimen's sustainability strategy in close collaboration with the four Strategic Businesses - Lead the sustainability transformation by ensuring group consistency in strategic guidelines and depth-quality in the execution across subsidiaries at corporate level - Provide support to Strategic Businesses in implementing overall change aligned to Agrolimen's key initiatives and values - Lead analysis of organisational data, identifying trends and themes and collaborating with Strategic Businesses in defining and developing specific initiatives, providing advice and support on execution - Establishing and managing relationships, collaborations and alliances with external organisations in sustainability issues - Ensuring sustainability initiatives are effectively communicated and marketed both internally and externally **Key Competences** Strong sustainability values, a true believer in sustainability because it is the "right thing to do". But also, strong strategic mind, who understands sustainability as a "strategic opportunity to enhance growth and improve competitive position", much more than a "compliance and risk control requirement." Technical skills: - A technical understanding of key ESG topics with sustainability experience and qualifications. Experience in consumer goods is a plus - Proven track record of defining and implementing sustainability strategies on an international scale - Understanding of the rapidly evolving sustainability landscape - Sound knowledge of related legislation and international agreements - Having a relevant network around sustainability and is actively connected: Experts (consulting, academics, peers,) and industry access (to materialise coalitions, alliances, memberships,and assure Agrolimen is always well connected to sustainability trends) - Experience in working "by projects" - Experience in leading sustainability transformations Analytical skills: - Solid problem solving - Quantitative approach to analytics - Long term view - Structured mind - Capacity of anticipating insights of the effects of global trends on the group's strategies and values Soft skills: - Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, which are required to provoke change - Empathic & good communicator: Ability to present complex topics and concepts simply to a broad audience. Strong presentation skills. Highly articulate with excellent written and verbal communication skills, with fluency in English - Strong people skills to provoke change and get things done - Ability to balance time sensitive priorities efficiently and navigate cross-cultural boundaries