This role turns Daunat’s group sustainability strategy into operational priorities across its industrial sites and business teams. The person in post coordinates action plans, tracks progress and helps colleagues translate environmental and social goals into decisions across food production, products and packaging.
The work connects corporate commitments with practical issues in food manufacturing, including carbon measurement, product life-cycle impacts, packaging design, waste, energy and responsible purchasing. It also brings reporting and regulatory readiness into the same effort, so progress can be assessed and communicated to customers, employees and partners with credible data.
This suits someone with at least five years in sustainability or CSR, ideally in an industrial or food-sector setting, who can work across functions, interpret performance data and turn regulatory developments into clear priorities.
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What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The role converts Daunat’s group sustainability strategy into an operational roadmap, coordinates its sustainability committee and supports industrial sites and functional teams as they carry out improvement plans. It tracks progress and assesses the group’s CSR performance using the ISO 26030 framework.
A second strand is measurement and accountability: collecting and validating data, preparing sustainability reports and customer responses, reviewing results and recommending improvements. The role also monitors regulations and standards, then works with relevant teams to translate changes into practical action.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The position could deepen expertise in sustainability management within food manufacturing, including carbon accounting, product life-cycle assessment, packaging eco-design, waste, energy and responsible purchasing. Regular coordination with production, R&D, procurement, quality and commercial teams may build a broad view of how these topics affect business decisions.
The role also offers practical exposure to ISO 26030, sustainability reporting, regulatory monitoring and the conversion of performance data into management recommendations. The posting does not specify formal training or certification support.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
The stated profile is a master’s-level qualification in sustainability, CSR, environment, food engineering or a related field, plus at least five years of relevant experience. Industrial or food-sector experience is preferred. Strong project management and cross-functional facilitation skills matter because the role must mobilize teams without direct authority.
Candidates should be comfortable with data analysis, indicators, reporting and Excel, and able to organize priorities into workable plans. Familiarity with sustainability regulation and standards, including CSRD and ISO 26030, is an advantage.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Use examples from industrial or food-sector work to show how you moved a sustainability objective into site-level actions. Explain your own role in coordinating contributors, setting indicators, validating data and following up on results, rather than describing strategy only in broad terms.
Prepare a concrete example involving a topic named in the posting, such as carbon, packaging, waste, energy or purchasing. Be ready to discuss how you would balance regulatory requirements, operational constraints and reliable reporting, and how you would communicate progress to both internal teams and customers.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role is likely to focus on linking Daunat’s sustainability commitments to performance across food production. The posting identifies carbon measurement, product life-cycle assessment, packaging eco-design, waste, energy and responsible purchasing as sector priorities.
Social performance and stakeholder communication are also in scope, alongside ISO 26030 assessment, reporting and regulatory monitoring. The precise targets and current maturity of each program are not provided, so the role’s emphasis may depend on the group’s existing roadmap.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
A central challenge may be coordinating sites and functions with different operational priorities while the sustainability lead has no stated direct authority over them. The role must make plans practical for production and business teams while maintaining consistent group-wide measurement.
Reliable data collection and consolidation across multiple contributors could also take sustained effort. In parallel, regulatory and standards changes may require the role to distinguish urgent compliance needs from longer-term improvements across carbon, packaging, waste, energy and purchasing.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
A day could combine a meeting with a site or business function to review an action plan, followed by analysis of indicators or checks on sustainability data for a report or customer response. The role may also prepare committee updates and identify areas where progress is behind plan.
Other days could involve reviewing a regulatory development, consulting quality, procurement or R&D colleagues about its implications, or coordinating awareness sessions for employees. The balance would likely shift with reporting deadlines and the needs of the industrial sites.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
The role could build a path toward broader group sustainability leadership by combining strategy, implementation, reporting and cross-functional influence. It may also develop specialist depth in food-sector issues such as product life-cycle assessment, packaging, carbon and responsible sourcing.
Exposure to senior functions, industrial sites and external organizations could support later moves into group ESG leadership, sustainability reporting or environmental performance roles. The posting does not specify a formal promotion path or professional development program.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
Internal stakeholders include the Quality Director, who the role reports to, the sustainability committee, industrial sites and teams in quality, procurement, marketing, sales, health and safety, HR, product and packaging R&D, industrialization and production. Their work together would connect group priorities with operational decisions and reporting inputs.
External contacts may include customers in retail and food service, suppliers, specialist organizations, industry bodies and competitiveness clusters. The role would likely communicate commitments and progress while gathering information and coordinating responses.
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