Job Description:

Contract : Permanent contract/CDI

Location : Aimargues (30 minutes from Montpellier) or open to an organization of work in full remote

Segment : Royal Canin

As part on its sustainability journey, Royal Canin is working relentlessly towards improving our impact on pets, planet and people, by making our activities more sustainable and socially responsible. More specifically, Royal Canin committed to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. Our key priority in this journey is to reduce its carbon emissions and contribute to Mars Incorporated commitment to reach Net Zero by 2050.

The LCA & Climate Data Manager ensures the link between the delivery of our sustainability objectives, with a strong focus on climate, and our visibility of performance results, strengthening business decision-making, ensuring that Sustainability data and information actionable for business leaders, and enabling lower-footprint innovation through much improved systems and tools.

The Role responsibilities include working with relevant Royal Canin’s functional teams and Petcare/Mars Central experts as climate data lead, to pilot and then deploy successful accounting programs, systems and tools. The role requires technical expertise in Life Cycle Assessment as well as strong project oversight, governance skills and stakeholders management skills.

What are we looking for?

• A person with a Degree in agronomy, finance and/or sustainability related topic (Life Cycle Assessment, data management)

• At least 5 years' experience in Life Cycle Assessment / Sustainability

• Experience across data collection and reporting systems including audit requirements and processes

• Ability to facilitate data-driven conversations to influence business strategy and growth

• Demonstrated creativity in problem solving and the ability to take an idea through to implementation

What will be your key responsibilities?

In strong collaboration with Petcare and Mars Incorporated teams:

1) Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) lead for Royal Canin

- Responsible for the development of supplier and project specific impact factors, especially for raw materials, together with other LCA leads within Mars Inc. - Responsible for translating future or existing LCA standard into the business accounting rules, and contribute to set accounting rules for internal Mars Inc. use when standards do not exist yet;

- Identifying data gaps or issues, escalation for support when needed, working together with Petcare and Mars experts to address them;

- Support teams in assessing the potential reduction during the development of carbon reduction initiatives;

- Contribute to the development and deployment of methodological changes within Mars Inc.

2) Reporting and glidepath, supported by analytics and tools

- Responsible for tracking Royal Canin’s carbon performance for different geographical scale, at corporate and products level; manage the validation and/or external assurance of data; generate performance reports to enable robust understanding of results internally and externally;analytics support to functional and brand teams to enable the delivery of climate goals, based on a deep understanding of carbon accounting, carbon intensity, allocation of benefits, and other critical climate accounting considerations.

- Serves as climate subject-matter expert for the digital transformation aiming at providing tools essential to Royal Canin and Petcare’s ability to deliver its sustainability goals over time, helping inform and shape strategic choices and business decisions.

- Responsibility for tracking Royal Canin’s sustainability performance on a quarterly basis.

3) Lead the carbon neutrality certification

- Responsible for the assessment of the performance of the products in the scope of the certification, working in close collaboration with other functional teams;

- Further develop and update the methodological report on an annual basis;

- Further develop and update the certification report on an annual basis, incl. connecting with the relevant experts to get an update of the climate strategy;

- Manage the LCA verification and certification process.

- Responsible for guaranteeing the compliance of the certification with existing laws.

4) Increasing Access & Capability Responsible for ensuring that relevant teams across functions have access to key Sustainability data and have the right capability and awareness in order to access it, utilize it to make business decisions, and to build into their existing teams stronger capabilities over time.

What can you expect from Mars?

• At Mars, we believe in a relationship of mutual trust, dignity and respect between our company and Associates that is more meaningful than the standard employer/employee relationship.

• As Associates, we can expect to be respected, supported and valued as individuals, to be treated fairly and equitably.

• An environment where you are empowered to be proactive and to take initiatives to make a difference.

• You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates’ dogs at the office! 

• A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!

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Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.