Supply Chain Manager, Responsible Pulp & Paper - Winchester (UK), Lille or Lyon (FR)

Deadline: 08/01/2023

Earthworm Foundation is an international dynamic non-profit organization which helps companies transform their supply chains across the world for the benefit of people and nature.

Earthworm Foundation is seeking a motivated, Supply Chain Manager, Responsible Pulp & Paper, based either in Winchester (UK), Lille or Lyon (FR).

The Responsible Pulp & Paper Supply Chain Manager will be part of the Grievance Management Team within Earthworm, which delivers Earthworm ’s grievance service to members and clients – typically consumer goods companies based in Europe and the US. We use the term ‘grievance’ to describe campaigns by NGOs like Greenpeace and Amnesty International, or media outlets like the Associated Press, who make allegations of environmental and human rights abuses against companies through connections in their commodity supply chains. The scope of Earthworms role is determined by Earthworm members’ connection to deforestation, peat degradation and exploitation of communities and workers, primarily in palm oil but now also with Pulp & Paper (on which this new position will be focussed).

Earthworm provides the tools, technical expertise and local knowledge of our field offices to analyse grievance cases and make recommendations on how Earthworm members and clients should respond, and supports their engagement with suppliers and the campaigning NGOs. Earthworm also supports our members and clients to design and implement projects on the ground in the main agricultural commodity-producing regions of the globe to address the problems often highlighted in grievances. Earthworm’s goal is to maximise the impact of our members and to be positive actors in resolving the issues that campaigning organisations raise.

About Earthworm Foundation

Earthworm Foundation currently has presence in 16 countries including Indonesia, India, Malaysia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, and several locations within West Africa, Europe and the Americas. We employ more than 250 people worldwide and work with big and small companies, communities and producers of raw materials to create compelling cases of transformation. With an innovative and entrepreneurial spirit, we work on the ground with people to create inspiring transformation stories. We focus on creating value, engage without judging and carry hope and a positive vision of the future.

What Makes Us Unique

• Our profound belief in people, their capacity to change and be a force for good.
• Our desire to work where the problems are, to innovate and find practical solutions on the ground.

What We Offer

• A unique work experience in a non-profit impacting nature and communities around the world.
• The opportunity to lead complex projects with direct impact on the growth and well-being of our staff.
• A caring working culture that the candidate will take part in sustaining and growing.
• A fast moving, agile working environment with the chance to work in a multicultural team.

The Responsible Pulp & Paper Supply Chain Manager will:

• Have or develop a deep understanding of the pulp & paper / production forest sector, the key sourcing countries, the primary issues that lead to grievances and the key actors involved – progressively building a network of contacts and representing Earthworm externally in a variety of forums;
• Support the Grievance Lead and the wider Grievance Team in managing each grievance case as it arrives and supporting the Grievance Lead in engagement with members and clients needing advice and direct support as they engage their suppliers;
• Progressively assume a leadership role in managing the Pulp & Paper grievance service to the growing group of Earthworm members that subscribe to our service.
• Interact with colleagues across the globe to bring together the necessary information to provide our members/clients with briefings, including recommendations;
• Work with Earthworm’s Productive Forests team and Grievance Lead in strengthening our effectiveness in investigating cases – including cultivating external contacts with campaigning NGOs and relevant partner organisations;
• Work with the Productive Forests Team and Grievance Lead to develop the service and to explore collaborations between members to drive progress on high priority cases – which might include mobilising local teams to take action directly in the field or design more long-term interventions, perhaps identifying and engaging suitable partner organisations;
• Work with colleagues to produce grievance risk reports and present them in meetings to the members and clients;
• There may be opportunity to work beyond the scope of the Grievance Service, likely supporting teams developing on the ground interventions, with particular focus on Earthworm’s landscape projects in North America and Europe;

• Minimum 5 years relevant professional working experience, ideally with global supply chain experience in relationship management, supply chain management, and/or sustainability.
• Knowledge of natural raw materials and agricultural commodities an advantage.
• University degree or higher-level qualification in a field related to business management, the environment, sociology/anthropology or international development (or equivalent professional experience);
• An interest in global development issues and desire to confront instances of deforestation and exploitation and help find solutions;
• Experience dealing with a wide variety of stakeholders and organisations from around the globe, spanning campaigning NGOs and corporate entities;
• Presentation skills: experienced in delivering complex information in layman’s terms;
• Strong inter-personal skills and experience in building diverse networks of contacts;
• Good analytical, reasoning and reporting skills – the role will require the ability to review a range of data sources, identify relevant information and be able to present it back clearly and concisely – and derive logical conclusions and recommendations;
• Excellent data management skills and proficiency in Excel;
• Teamwork – comfortable working with a team spread across the globe and incorporating our members/clients;
• Innovative and solutions-focussed – with a continuous improvement mind-set;
• Experience using GIS systems useful but not essential;
• Committed to Earthworm Foundation values.

Language skills:

• Fluency in English (spoken and written) required;
• Spanish, French, Portuguese, Bahasa Indonesia (spoken and written) useful but not essential.

Working conditions / Physical effort:

• Based in in one of Earthworm’s offices in Winchester, UK or Lille or Lyon, France, with flexibility for hybrid working.
• Occasional travel to other Earthworm offices and member and client locations in home country and overseas.

Other information:

• Permanent contract;
• Full-time position;
• Immediate start;
• Authorisation to work in either the UK or France required.
  

Interested candidates are invited to send a cover letter and CV via email to uk.recruitment@earthworm.org by 8th January, 2023. Please put your “Family name” and “RPPSC Manager 22” in the subject line of the email. Successful candidates will be contacted by email for an initial interview. Only candidates who send a CV/Resume and cover letter will be considered. Only selected candidates will be contacted.