This is a field role inside Fareva’s Group CSR team: you take the group’s sustainability commitments and make them land site by site, across 40-plus manufacturing plants. Day to day that means co-building local action plans on decarbonisation, energy and water efficiency, solar installations and EcoVadis, then tracking whether each site actually delivers.
The weight of the job sits in credibility. Fareva has committed to an SBTi-validated decarbonisation path and will report under CSRD with third-party verification, so the figures you consolidate from each plant feed a publicly checked report. You are the person who turns a group target into plant-level numbers someone can defend to an auditor.
This suits someone who has run multi-site industrial performance or audit projects, is comfortable on a production floor, and can move people without a direct reporting line. Fluent French and English are required, with frequent travel in France and abroad.
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What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The core mission is translation: taking group-level CSR commitments and turning them into workable, measured action plans at each production site. On decarbonisation, you break the SBTi trajectory down by site across scopes 1, 2 and 3, help local teams build their own reduction plans, and then track emissions against the path to flag where a site is drifting.
A second block is environmental projects: energy efficiency, water consumption cuts, photovoltaic installations and charging infrastructure. Here you would typically build the investment case with the site and follow it through to completion, so the role mixes engineering literacy with financial justification.
The third block is the EcoVadis rollout across the group, aiming for scores above 70, plus the broader social and governance action plans. Running through all of it is a consolidation and reporting duty: dashboards, progress reviews to the Group CSR Director, and spreading approaches that worked at one site to the others.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The most direct learning is in multi-site programme management in an industrial setting: how to sequence rollouts, keep dozens of plants on a shared calendar, and drive completion without hierarchical authority. That skill is portable to almost any manufacturing group.
On the technical side, you would deepen your grasp of SBTi target-setting and scope 3 accounting, of CSRD reporting mechanics and of what an independent assurance provider will probe. Building investment files for solar, energy efficiency and water projects adds a capex business-case dimension that pure sustainability roles rarely offer.
Finally, exposure to EcoVadis at group scale, including campaign preparation and score improvement plans, is a marketable credential. Working across three continents with sites in very different regulatory and cultural contexts likely sharpens your ability to adapt method rather than impose one template.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
Expect a profile with a Bac +5 in engineering, business, political science or a specialised sustainability master, plus 5 to 9 years of experience, of which 3 to 5 in industrial performance project management, consulting or audit. Technical familiarity with manufacturing processes, continuous improvement and QHSE management systems is explicitly required.
The differentiating skill is data discipline: defining indicators, checking calculation rules, spotting audit trails and consolidating figures across many entities, with solid Excel. Prior multi-site project experience or exposure to an audited environment is described as a decisive plus.
On the human side, the posting is clear that influence matters more than authority. You need to convince site directors and production teams rather than instruct them, stay tenacious in chasing action plans to completion, and handle several projects in parallel. Fluent French and English are indispensable; a third language helps.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Lead with evidence of multi-site delivery, not with sustainability vocabulary. Pick two or three projects where you coordinated several industrial sites or entities and quantify them: number of sites, timeline held, indicator definitions you set, results achieved. That maps directly onto what Fareva describes as decisive.
Because the data will feed a CSRD report subject to third-party verification, prepare a concrete example of challenging a figure or a calculation rule, or of building an audit trail across entities. Interviewers will likely probe how you handle a site that reports convenient numbers.
Show familiarity with SBTi trajectories and EcoVadis mechanics, and be ready to explain how you would build an investment case for, say, rooftop solar at a plant. Given the travel load, a clear, credible answer on availability and mobility in France and abroad helps. A short cover note in French is a sensible choice for a French-headquartered group.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role sits squarely on the environmental and reporting side of Fareva's ESG agenda, with a social and governance component through the broader action plans. The centre of gravity is the SBTi-validated decarbonisation trajectory to 2030, which you would operationalise for scopes 1, 2 and 3 at plant level.
Resource performance is the second focus: energy efficiency, water consumption reduction, on-site photovoltaic generation and charging infrastructure. For a contract manufacturer with 40-plus plants, these are also cost and competitiveness questions, which helps when persuading site management.
The third focus is CSRD readiness and EcoVadis scoring above 70. Both depend on the reliability of site-level data, so a large share of your attention goes to indicator definitions, consolidation and preparation for external verification rather than to designing new commitments.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
The structural difficulty is influence without authority. Sites keep control of execution, and you supply the framework and the follow-up. When a plant is under production pressure, CSR actions can slip, and your leverage is persuasion plus escalation through the CSR Director, not instruction.
Data reliability is the second test. Consolidated figures will be verified externally, so inconsistencies between sites in definitions or calculation methods become a real risk, and challenging them can create friction with local teams who own the numbers.
Add the sheer scale and dispersion: many sites, three continents, frequent travel, and several projects running in parallel with different maturity levels. Some sites may be far ahead on EcoVadis or energy while others are starting from scratch, so a single template will not fit all, and you will need to adapt method without losing comparability.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
Days will vary a lot depending on whether you are at head office or on a site. In Paris or the Rhône-Alpes region, a typical day might involve consolidating site progress into dashboards, reviewing emissions against the SBTi trajectory, and preparing an investment file for an energy or solar project with corporate colleagues.
On site visits, the rhythm shifts towards diagnostics and workshops: walking production areas, meeting the site director and the QHSE or industrial team, working through the EcoVadis improvement plan or a local decarbonisation action list, and agreeing who does what by when.
Between these, there are calls with site contacts to unblock stalled actions, exchanges with the Group CSR Director on priorities, and follow-up on data questions raised by verification preparation. Frequent travel in France and internationally means the balance between desk and field shifts week to week.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
The role has visible proximity to the Group CSR Director and to senior site leadership, which is a strong platform. A person who consolidates reliable data and gets action plans delivered across many sites becomes the natural candidate for a group-level CSR programme lead or environmental reporting lead role as CSRD obligations mature.
Sector mobility is also real: multi-site CSR deployment, SBTi trajectories and CSRD-ready data are in demand across manufacturing, pharmaceuticals and consumer goods. The industrial and capex dimension of the environmental projects adds a profile that generalist sustainability roles do not build.
Internally, the exposure to 42 sites and corporate functions may open lateral moves into operations, QHSE or site management for someone who wants line responsibility. The breadth of the mandate is the main development asset, provided the role holder actively documents what worked site by site.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
Your direct line is the Group CSR Director, who sets the agenda and to whom you report progress. Alongside that sits the corporate CSR team and other corporate functions whose topics you deploy, likely including industrial, QHSE and finance contacts when investment files need approval.
The largest group is site-level: site directors, industrial and production teams, QHSE managers and local coordinators who own execution. The relationship is one of support and challenge, since you provide method and follow-up while they retain control of implementation.
External stakeholders matter too. EcoVadis as the assessment body, the independent verification provider for CSRD reporting, and potentially auditors or consultants involved in data checks. As a contract manufacturer, some sustainability requirements also arrive through Fareva's clients, which can add customer-driven expectations to the mix.
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