Sustainability Executive

About the role
Our journey began back in 1929. Since then, we’ve continued to build a strong and resilient business with a great future. It's why we believe we’re the best foodservice provider in the country.
Where has your journey taken you so far?

• Are you motivated by sustainability with a passion to be a positive force for change?
• Do you have a natural talent for building relationships with people?
• Are you looking to develop your career in product sustainability within the food industry?

Then why not make our journey your journey?

As a Sustainability Executive in our sustainability team, you will be helping to drive progress towards achieving our sustainability targets and commitments across our product range, both for Bidfood and for our customers. This role will be customer centric – you will be engaging with our customers, and ensuring the products we source meet our key customer’s sustainability requirements as a priority. You will also be delving into our product data, engaging with suppliers, collecting information and implementing actions to ensure we improve the sustainability of our products and progress our product policies.
One day you will be discussing animal welfare and cage free eggs, whilst the next might be working on deforestation, biodiversity and modern slavery. You will be keen to develop your knowledge in all areas of sustainability, particularly relating to products, and keep up to date with a rapidly changing environment through monitoring news stories and attending industry workshops and webinars. You will enjoy researching new topics, and be able to take the information you have learned and adapt it into useful tools to advance Bidfood’s sustainability objectives.
Your role will sit within our Sustainability team, but will support our Technical Services team based in Slough and you will engage regularly with this department. Other team members include those working on carbon and supply chain projects, and you will need to keep up to speed with their projects and disseminate this information back to customers.
You will also work with our commercial and marketing teams often leading meetings and steering groups to discuss key topics, as well as being a vital support for our Tenders teams, providing information on our sustainability commitments, progress and policies to attract new customers and win new business. You’ll be regularly tracking our progress against a range of long term targets and presenting to internal and external teams on how we’re progressing, being a consistent advocate for our work.

A bit about you
You’ll have a passion for sustainability and a keen desire to develop yourself, taking responsibility for your own learning, making sure you stay up to date with the rapidly changing landscape we operate in, from deforestation to animal welfare, greenhouse gas emissions to biodiversity, and many others.
A significant part of this role will be delivering excellent service to customers, so you will need to be a confident presenter and excellent relationship builder. This role gives you amazing exposure to players across the hospitality market and it is essential that you show-case your learned expertise to them.
You’ll have an excellent standard of both written and spoken English, as communication is a key part of the role. You will be working cross-functionally with multiple departments across the business, so being willing to proactively ‘pick up the phone’ and build relationships is essential.
You’ll have resilience and commitment to achieving progress despite barriers, using your problem solving skills to find solutions and ensure progress towards ambitious targets. You’ll be engaging with a wide range of suppliers on different stages of their sustainability journey, so you will need to use your excellent communication and influencing skills to bring them along on Bidfood’s journey too.
You’ll have excellent attention to detail, and enjoy working with large data sets in a variety of different formats. You’ll be able to juggle many projects at once, on different timescales.
You’ll be self-motivated, highly organised, proactive and be able to initiate conversations and make connections between your objectives and the different teams that will help deliver them.
You’ll be operating in a highly commercial environment, so commercial awareness is essential.

About the Company
Our journey began back in 1929. Since then, we’ve continued to build a strong and resilient business with a great future. It's why we believe we’re the best foodservice provider in the country.

A journey that gives back

We want your career with us to be as rewarding as possible. So, you’ll get lots in return for your hard work. That includes benefits that can support your wellbeing and financial security, and give you peace of mind.

The essentials

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) as a minimum and the opportunity to buy more
• A pension - contribute 4% and we’ll match you (after year 1, we’ll match your contributions up to 6%).
• Life cover that you can increase.
• Access to confidential support and counselling, when you need it.
• A health plan that gives you money back on everyday medical costs for all the family, as well as access to a digital GP.

The extras

• Exclusive range of high street discounts including cinema, tech, travel, fashion, food and drink.
• Get paid as you earn - access to up to 20% of your pay before payday.
• Opportunity to buy dental cover and critical illness cover.