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Salary Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact
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Our story
Family and ideas have always been our ingredients. Our founding families believed biscuits and chocolates could bring moments of happiness to the world. Their ideas have stood the test of time. Their spirit continues to inspire our future. It’s in the care and the craft we bake into biscuits and chocolates that have been loved for generations. And it’s in the fresh ideas, the new twists, flavours and textures we add to old and new favourites.
Our 16,000 colleagues across our global network of bakers, distribution sites and offices each with their own unique, diverse experience. To bring happiness with every bite.
If you’re a part of the pladis team, you know what it means to bring it. Whether it’s our resilience, team spirit or go-getting attitude. Our courage and compassion. Our ownership. Our whole selves. We Bring it. Day in, day out.
Inspired by you
Our founders didn’t follow rules and recipes, they created them. We’re looking for fresh thinkers to help us create the next chapter for pladis.
pladis succeeds because of people like you. People who wake up in the morning excited to get to work. Who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow as part of a global community of like-minded colleagues.
Because growth is our oxygen and our fuel. And it’s our deep and abiding belief that growth comes from working together, helping each other out, always passionate about our purpose to bring happiness with every bite.
Why join our team?
pladis UK&I is home to iconic brands McVitie’s, Jacob’s and Carr’s. These brands make sweet treats and savoury treats that consumers everywhere recognise and enjoy! As we start on our new pathway, we will continue making the biscuits and confectionery people know and expect from these brands, and we will expand their portfolios too. Together we will build new and exciting products at pladis – new flavours, new concepts and new ways to share happiness.
Our strength is not only in our products, it is also in our people and our values. Each business that has united to form pladis Global are loved for their heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity and trust instilled in our brands by our ground-breaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success.
What will this role achieve?
pladis is embarking on a new sustainability journey, with an exciting, holistic, Global Sustainability strategy and the building of a new global team. We have exciting ambitions for net zero, SBTi, deforestation free sourcing and raising the bar on sustainability for pladis, with a team now needed to help drive and deliver this step-change.
This is the first additional role in that team, reporting to the Global Director of Sustainability, emphasizing the importance of the data, the reporting and the ability this work has to underpin and help drive the strategy.
As such, this role will own the management of regional and Global Sustainability data, its accuracy and integrity, and the global reporting obligations and requirements ensuring we are "compliance plus". .
What will be your key deliverables?
- Build, maintain and manage a centralised, due diligence based, global data platform to collate, critique and manage a holistic data management system
- Be accountable for influencing and delivering against the roadmap with senior stakeholders
- Working directly with stakeholders in region to understand reporting and challenges around accuracy and integrity and propose ways in which to rectify gaps.
- Future proofing sustainability within regions by growing and developing future strategies on other areas within sustainability such as waste, sourcing and water to continue to grow our focus on sustainability.
- Starting with carbon, own and drive the global data collation so we have a global picture of baseline and progress, working with regions to understand the integrity, accuracy and challenges in the reporting, and remediation plans to rectify any gaps. Other sustainability subjects such as waste, sourcing and water will then follow the plan built and deployed, giving this role an opportunity to grow and develop as the strategy matures.
- Working with stakeholders to understand our sustainability reporting obligations and managing a dashboard to hold us accountable to meeting our obligations today and in the future.
- Build future plans for new obligations and requirements ensuring there is no duplication across the business and closing any existing gaps
- Ensuring all required data and materials are obtained by working closely with internal and external stakeholders to allow completion of relevant sustainable reporting requirements overseeing and ensuring alignment with what has been submitted previously and accuracy of data and materials submitted (audit ready).
Bring your experience
Essential
- An understanding of sustainability
- Excellent understanding of excel, spreadsheets and data collation and presentation
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Ownership and accountability of work programmes, and able to work both independently as well as part of both a virtual and matrix team
- Approachable, friendly and keen to work collaboratively
Our Purpose
Bring happiness with every bite
It’s a purpose that every one of our colleagues, all around the world believes in. And while we’re all unique, we also share the same values.
Each of our values is important on its own. In combination they’re incredibly powerful.
Our values have deep personal meaning to us. They’re part of who we are and what we stand for as an employer
Living our pladis values is a key part of success, look out for questions in your interview that link to these key pladis values.
Our Values
Purpose led – We’re energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite
Agile – We’re ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers
Positive – We’re highly motivated optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better
Resilient - We’re persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn and move forward
Collaborative – We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together.
Best mix of ingredients
pladis is an equal opportunities employer, like every great recipe we’re a thoughtful mix. A happy and inclusive place to work that’s as diverse as our consumers and the communities we support, live and work in, all around the world. Where every voice is heard, and difference is celebrated. Where fresh perspectives and new ideas help us grow and thrive.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
