Head of Sustainability, South Africa - Durban, South Africa - Barrows

Barrows

Verified Company

Durban, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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About Barrows

Moving Retail Forward_ | _Moving People Forward_ | _Moving Communities Forward_

With over 30 years of experience, we are one of the world's leading FMCG retail design and manufacturing businesses. We are based in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town, London, New York and Toronto.

We harness the potential of our people, the quality of our products, and the spirit of our organisation to create transformative retail experiences around the world.

As a vertically-integrated business, we conceptualize, design, prototype, manufacture, install, and maintain in-store retail touch points.

We believe that the seamless integration of intelligent digital media, physical point of purchase, and product enables brands to deliver a dynamic and contextually relevant shopper experience that drives sales uplift and differentiates us from our competitors.

Sustainability is a fundamental part of the future of retail.

It is a core strategy of ours and we are looking for ambitious, talented and skilled individuals to join our sustainability team so we can play a part in leading the retail media transition to a low-carbon economy.

About Barrows Sustainability
The Barrows Global sustainability vision is to use business as a force for good.

We strive to be a company that improves the well-being for everyone it impacts and at all scales—every product, every operation, every region and country, and for every stakeholder, including employees, suppliers, communities, customers, and the planet.

We tackle sustainability across three key pillars:

Operations

Products

Services
We are on a journey to Net Zero operations.

We aim to deliver improved and decarbonised retail experiences.

Working with clients, we aim to use climate design as an agent for systemic change.

To date, we have measured our global carbon footprint (Scope 1, 2 and 3) and we are currently road mapping our net zero decarbonisation journey in alignment with the SBTi.

We have won awards for our cleaner production efforts and we have successfully launched award-winning sustainable and circular retail products.

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic, self-driven, creative and analytical individual with an engineering or science background and FMCG retail experience to take on the role of Head of Sustainability, South Africa.

This involves conceptualizing, owning, implementing and managing sustainability-driven projects across our South African operations, products and services.

Role Responsibilities:

Working closely with the Global Head of Sustainability.
Working with our Decarbonisation Manager to implement our South Africa decarbonisation road map and measure and track progress against our goals and targets

Key elements include:

Working with crossfunctional decarbonisation task teams across the business including materials, energy, water, and waste.
Enabling these teams to have a clear decarbonisation vision with key milestones, incentives, and live progress tracking in place.
Conducting regular review and feedback sessions.
Communicating progress to the greater business in highlevel reports and dashboards.
Working with our environmental consultants as necessary.
Managing, further developing and growing our existing sustainable products and services including:
The PolyAL programme: our first circular product (PolyAL Video, PolyAL How its Made) that has been in trade for 3 years and came 2nd to Greenpeace in the international category at the Campaign Ad Net Zero Awards.
The RE-GE, our next exciting sustainable retail media touch point.
Taking over R&D projects in the product and service development pipeline.
Identifying sustainable product/service opportunities and pitching, road mapping and executing against milestones.
Working across disciplines and with crossfunctional teams including sales, design, engineering, procurement, prototyping, production, logistics, waste management, finance and software development.
Presenting to and engaging with clients and senior internal stakeholders.
Assisting with annual sustainability reporting and budgeting.

Role Requirements

BSc. or BEng. degree.
A minimum of 3 years of experience in a sustainabilityrelated field and/or FMCG retail.
Strong problem solving skills with a solutiondriven attitude to deliver business value.
Ability to work across disciplines with crossfunctional teams.
Excellent analytical skills to identify trends, patterns and insights and make datainformed decisions.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to deeply collaborate.
A drive to learn and master new skills and techniques.
Actionorientated and enthusiastic.

Nice to have: