Sustainability & Responsibility Implementation Manager - S&R Hub

At Heineken, we brew the joy of true togetherness to inspire a better world. A big part of that means brewing better people with the heart of our company in our four values:

• Passion for consumers and customers
• Care for people and planet
• Enjoyment of life
• Courage to dream and pioneer 

Job purpose:
on time and in full (OTIF) deployment of project S&R Vital¹ in assigned OpCo's and embed related new ways of working & culture change in the OpCo . Acts as a trusted person reporting to the OpCo MT and GM and plays a challenger role to address gaps or issues with progress. The S&R Vital project is about improving the BaBW reporting data quality and implementing the new sustainability external reporting requirements (CSRD)

Reports to: Regional Implementation Manager, AME
Direct Reports: No direct reports

Roles & responsibilities
1.Deployment & alignment:

• Disciplined delivery of the S&R Vital OpCo implementation roadmap (derived from the central integrated
• Obtains clear alignment from the functional MT members on picture of success, timelines & deliverables;
• Leads OpCo operating cadence (drumbeat) and ensures S&R Vital progress and risks are discussed in MT/business meetings ;
• Proactively identifies risks & issues and resolve or flag to MT/GM and Regional/Global functions as required for timely de bottlenecking;

2.Culture Change:

• Support functional engagement and change management to embed new culture and capability requirements
• Supports execution of S&R functional engagement and communication;
• Proactively connects with other OpCo S&R Reporting Implementation Managers and Regional S&R Reporting Implementation Manager to “share/learn/reapply” best practice trying to maintain and standard approach across Heineken.

3.Lead and coordinate the delivery of the S&R Vital project:

• Project management support: confirm functional S&R Vital governance design in OpCo and related resource planning, OpCo implementation roadmap;
• Systems alignment: ensures there is functional ownership for systems and data flows, all changes are made OTIF and reports on progress/flag issues when required aligned with a D&T owner in OpCo
• Quality assurance: coordinating cross functional interdependencies relating to S&R Vital delivery;
• Tracking & reporting track progress of OpCo S&R Vital;
   

Experience & profile (what & how)

• Education: Bachelor level as minimum, Masters is a plus
• Work experience: : 2 3 years in project/change management, demonstrated experience in a large multinational (preferably FMCG) or consultancy firm.
• Other fields of expertise: experience in Strategy/Project management/Finance, passion for sustainability
• Functional skills: experience with Microsoft Office, knowledge of project management tooling, Sustainability experience
• Languages: Excellent written and verbal English; any other language is a plus

• Personnel Skills:
  • Communication skills and Strong stakeholder management with stakeholders (with conflicting interests) throughout different layers of the organization Combines conceptual understanding and practical judgement, is fact based and a communicator
  • Flexible and adaptable able to work in ambiguous situations, dealing with complexity and time pressure
  • Takes personal ownership, and focused on opportunities and value creation
  • Project management, structured and organized thinker, e xperience working within and implementing complex (preferably in cross functional) change projects, building collaborative relationships, influencing skills, managing without control, r esults focused and able to prioritize
  • Startup mentality Dealing with developing program and learning while rolling out.