Position Snapshot 
 
Location: Panama city, Panama / Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Company: Nestrade Procurement Division  
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100 % 
Type of contract: Permanent contract 
 
What we offer at Nestlé 
  
Flexible work policies in terms of core hours and working from home. Please talk to us during the recruitment process about what flexibility could look like for you!  
Genuine opportunities for career and personal development  
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces  
Dynamic international working environment  
Attractive additional benefits   
 
Position Summary   
 
We are currently looking for a highly competent Global Sustainability Procurement Manager based in Panama or Kuala Lumpur, reporting directly to the Sustainability Acceleration Team Lead within the ESG Procurement function at Nestrade. 
 
Your main responsibility will be to look for and drive opportunities for our different Procurement spend categories to ensure implementation of our Net Zero Roadmap commitments globally. Ultimately to support reaching the sustainability targets on time, on cost and on benefit. 
 
We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.  
 
A Day in the Life of a Global Sustainability Procurement Manager
 

• Implement Carbon Reduction projects and Regenerative Agriculture projects with our Global Procurement Managers and Suppliers.
• Be a driving force to coach, support and train the Nestrade community in our journey to Net Zero.
• Work closely with Procurement Managers to ensure the implementation of our Net Zero Roadmap, identify new GHG reduction projects, perform data analysis, and support the implementation of sustainability strategies.
• Represent Procurement in different sustainability meetings. Manage internal communication.  
• Build network within Procurement and other functions to accelerate the transformation towards Net Zero Carbon and Regenerative Agriculture. 
• Track project progress and milestones with suppliers through different financial and environmental KPIs (e.g. GHG reduction, % Volume RegenAg) and reporting systems (Vendor Portal/ Service Now/ PowerBI).

What will make you successful 
 

• University degree in Environmental Engineering, Agronomy, Business Administration, Supply Chain, Economics.
• Multiple years’ experience in a sustainability/procurement/project manager role linked to agriculture or the food and beverages industry. 
• Demonstrated experience in other business-related areas like sales, supply chain, procurement, finance will be a great asset. 
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills - with the ability to influence and collaborate with a variety of stakeholders across a complex organization.
• Being proactive in spotting opportunities, risks and driving change – comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
• Being highly structured and well organized.
• Fluency in English, any other language will be an asset. 

 
If your profile matches our needs, we look forward to receiving your application in English. 

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win. 
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day. 
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