Sustainability Specialist

Description

Davines Group is a recognized leader in the formulation and manufacturing of high end skin and hair care products. Our in-house production team has consistently developed scientifically proven and highly innovative professional products that, when combined with an innate sense of art and design, nurture both body and mind, in respect with environment and people. Promoting and transforming a holistic, healthy and sustainable lifestyle concept into a beautiful reality is our mission. Creating beauty from the inside out is our passion.   Our purpose is to be the best for the world, creators of good life for all, through beauty, ethics and sustainability.

THE MISSION:

Responding directly to the Head of Sustainability and being based in our Davines Village in Parma (Italy) this role will have the mission of supporting the Sustainability Team in driving cultural and functional change in the company to maximize its positive impact on stakeholders and environment.

This role will have the main target to increase the competences within the company’s group, through definition of practices, indicators, solutions, focusing on environmental and social sustainability excellence with a never-ending improvement approach.

DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Representing the technical “competence centre” and a concrete sustainability partner within the company for environmental and social sustainability;
• Deeply understanding and managing of dynamics related to company’s environmental and social certifications (i.e. B Corp);
• Providing technical support for monitoring and mapping of sustainability data indicators;
• Supporting the implementation of sustainability activities and guaranteeing a precise and continuous reporting of the same;
• Developing sustainability project objectives and initiatives in collaboration with other sustainability stakeholders.

PERSON SPECIFICATION AND REQUIREMENTS:

• University studies (bachelor and master) or specific academic experiences (MBA or Masters) within environmental science or engineering;
• Previous experience (at least two years) in: social and environmental certifications; sustainability reporting and GRI Standard or other benchmarking tools; cooperation with other companies and/or NGOs with sustainability in their strategical targets;
• Strong Project Management experience, analytical and quantitative skills, results oriented mindset;
• Be a self-starter and highly motivated person, capable of working independently, yet collaboratively, within a fast-paced environment, truly able to work in teams with an “interdependent” spirit, facilitating the implementation and acceptance of change;
• Strong working knowledge of standard software products for data management;
• Fluent Italian and English (both written and spoken) is mandatory and the knowledge of other languages will be considered as a plus.