Cocoa Sustainability Analyst - #1800178

About Us

We are a global leader in food & beverage ingredients. Pioneers at heart, we operate at the forefront of consumer trends to provide food & beverage manufacturers with products and ingredients that will delight their consumers. Making a positive impact on people and planet is all part of the delight. With a deep-rooted presence in the countries where our ingredients are grown, we are closer to farmers, enabling better quality, and more reliable, traceable and transparent supply. Supplying products and ingredients at scale is just the start. We add value through our unique, complementary portfolio of natural, delicious and nutritious products. With our fresh thinking, we help our customers unleash the sensory and functional attributes of cocoa, coffee, dairy, nuts and spices so they can create naturally good food & beverage products that meet consumer expectations. And whoever we’re with, whatever we’re doing, we always make it real.

Product Information

Cocoa

We’re a super specialist in all things cocoa – beans, powders, butters and beyond. In fact, we are the number one

cocoa bean supplier globally with a leading presence in 10 key producing countries across Africa, Asia and South America. In our direct sourcing, our traceability from the farm to the factory allows us to drive sustainable practices across the cocoa supply chain.

Job Description

About you

You have strong, relevant experience in data analytics and monitoring/evaluation techniques and you are a motivator and a strong communicator with the ability to keep people and processes on track.

Key Responsibilities

• Revise and analyze data on farmer practices and sustainability programs, prepare diagnosis reports of data quality, identify urgent improvements, train origins to address pitfalls, and monitor implementation of solutions.
• Evaluate capacity of M&E origin teams and provide guidance to improve
• Design and provide training to M&E origin teams on data quality monitoring, survey collection, Design and implement standard operational procedures to monitor data quality recording, data quality reporting, polygon quality, EUDR compliance, farmer training.
• Support the implementation of farmer segmentation analytics and farm development plan design.
• Support data cleaning and tailoring for submission to different sustainability reporting platforms from customers and partner organizations.
• Propose innovations to data collection, data monitoring and data evaluation
• Conduct in-depth demo’s of our online sustainability platforms to external parties
• Be the Cocoa point of contact for our digital sustainability platforms - test new development, provide high level detailed feedback and be responsible for the final sign off, investigate and provide guidance on tech issues
• Monitor status, estimations and expected delivery dates for all Cocoa digital tracks
• Work closely with the Sustainability and Monitoring & Evaluation origin teams and assist with internal and external reporting
• Overarching goal to revolutionize and digitize reporting metrics
  
  

Requirements

• A minimum of 3-5 years’ experience
• High confidence in working in multicultural and diverse environment
• A good command of English language (with preferably additional languages (French, Spanish, Portuguese))
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects concurrently, prioritise tasks across time zones and meet deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Affinity with sustainability and understanding of key drivers
• You are proactive, autonomous, responsible and results focused
• Degree on a quantitative analytics field, preferably with a Master's degree on environmental sciences, econometrics, environmental economics, agricultural economics, industrial ecology, or applied statistics.
• Knowledge on mapping, GIS, data analytics, data visualization, and statistics.
• Creative mind to provide innovative solutions
• Strong interest on data analytics and passion for harvesting sustainability insights from data.
  
  

ofi is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, nationality, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Applicants are requested to complete all required steps in the application process including providing a resume/CV in order to be considered for open roles.