Head of Sustainable Diets

Job description

We have a fantastic opportunity for maternity covering a Head of Sustainable Diets! You will be responsible for building and delivering the UK Sustainable Diets strategy and for crafting and supporting the strategies within other group markets, incl. ROI, CE and Booker. You will work closely with Categories, Customer, Insight and Comms as key stakeholders in the building and communication of the strategy. You'll also lead the communication and engagement of the strategy across the business, as well as reviewing and measuring progress against goals and commitments. You will report into Group Sustainability Director as a member of the Sustainability Leadership Team.

Contract: 12 month parental leave cover.

Responsibilities

• Developing the short, medium and long term strategy and action plan for sustainable diets alongside the wider Group Planet Plan and Health strategy
• Engagement and communication of strategy across the business.
• Continuing to drive diets shift delivery plans by working with stakeholders such as Health, Commercial, Customer, Insight and Comms teams.
• Influencing across the business to ensure sustainable diets is a key priority where relevant.
• Leading a cross functional team groupwide to deliver our diets strategy and plan.
• Ensuring all teams across the business have access to the information and data they need in order to build, forecast, deliver and measure their plans where relevant.
• Reviewing and communicating progress against the strategy.
• Engaging with external partners regarding our diet shift strategy, plans and progress, eg, investors, charity partners, foundations, academia, industry partners, suppliers.
• Disclosing accurate progress reports against our internal & external commitments where relevant.
• innovation pipeline and the Sustainability Reporting Manager workstream.
• Developing the team in line with the Winning Behaviours.

Requirements

• Strong people leadership experience, with a proven ability to build, develop and motivate high-performing teams.
• Experience creating and delivering large-scale strategic plans that drive measurable business and customer outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills, with experience using customer, market and performance data to shape strategy and inform decision-making.
• A track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams and influencing senior stakeholders in a complex organisation.
• Excellent communication and engagement skills, with the ability to bring colleagues on a journey and drive alignment behind a shared vision.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with practical execution to deliver meaningful impact.