Responsible Sourcing and Sustainability Manager

At Whitbread, owner of Premier Inn, our industry leading sustainability programme Force for Good is a part of our DNA and core to what we do.

We are committed to tackling the complex social and environmental challenges we face, today and for the future to make positive and impactful change.

To date we’ve raised £22M for Great Ormond Street Hospital, received a Top Employer Award for 13 consecutive years, reduced direct GHG emissions by 52.5% over the last 5 years as we work to becoming Net Zero by 2040, and opened our first hotel last year powered entirely by renewable electricity, but we know there is lots of work still to do to help us meet our goals.  

In this role, you will be accountable for managing and mitigating the commercial, legal and reputational risks associated with poor ethical and environmental supplier performance across our Group-wide global supply chain and accountable for assuring security of supply for the commodities our core brand offerings rely on, future proofing our business and product offering.

Location: Dunstable, hybrid- a minimum of 3 days per week in the office

Job Type: Permanent

Why you’ll love it here:

• Bonus: Enjoy an annual Whitbread performance incentive worth up to 30% of base salary
• Car/Cash allowance
• Healthcare: Bupa for you and your family.
• Discounts: Up to 60% discount on Premier Inn stays and 25% discount on our Restaurant brands

What you’ll do:

• Assess the organisation’s current supply chain performance and lead in formulating a business response to the key issues.
• Define the plc targets and commitments for responsible sourcing and ensure they are met.
• Develop and manage the implementation of responsible sourcing strategy.
• responsible for ensuring the company is compliant with relevant supply chain legislation such as EU Deforestation Act, UK Forest Risk Commodities Act and future requirements such as CSRD and CSDDD.
• Influencing stakeholders to gain support for integrating sustainability into core procurement processes.

What we need:

• Knowledge and passion for Sustainability including subject matter expertise for relevant areas of the programme, for example ethical trade.
• Experience managing or undertaking ethical audits (e.g. SMETA / BSCI)
• Responsible and ethical sourcing project management.
• Understanding of how Sustainability can add value to our business (to the customer, our team and shareholders). #LI1-MS