Job Opportunities Senior Agronomist Regenerative Agriculture

Avignon - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 6 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier healthier lives with love for nature. Together with kindness and humility we deliver food innovations craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions that make people look and feel good. Theres much to learn and many to learn from with more than 16000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Dive into varied flexible and stimulating environments. Meet empowered professionals to partner with befriend and stretch your skills alongside. Every day your energy your creativity and your determination will shape our future making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Givaudan is recruiting a Senior Agronomist to reinforce its Agronomy team. The role is global and reports to the Head of Agronomy in the Global Procurement organization.

You will contribute to the deployment of Givaudans agronomy roadmap contributing in priority to the implementation of the regenerative agriculture program throughout our strategic natural raw material value chains.

The position is preferably based in Avignon alternatively at other Givaudan sites in Europe.

Regular international travel mainly within Europe is required (up to 30% of the time).

The position is a permanent contract (CDI) and is available immediately.

Missions:

Lead agronomy and regenerative agriculture projects acrossstrategic natural ingredients value chains

Lead agronomy and regenerative agriculture projects across natural ingredient value chains from design to delivery.

Drive project execution globally and locally including planning resourcing implementation and performance reporting.

Advance the companys regenerative agriculture agenda ensuring alignment with sustainability goals and industry best practices.

Build and nurture internal expertise in agronomy fostering a culture of sustainable agriculture within and beyond the organization.

Partner with procurement teams to co-develop and deploy collaborative regenerative initiatives across key raw material supply chains.

Collaborate with internal and external partners suppliers and implementation agencies to achieve project objectives.

Represent Givaudan in cross-industry and pre-competitive platforms dedicated to sustainable and regenerative agriculture.

Demonstrate strategic thinking recommend for change and bring forward new ideas

Support the Head of Agronomy in governance advocacy and communication of the global agronomy programme across internal and external forums.

Your profile:

Agronomy engineer or Masters degree in related fields.

Postgraduate studies or certifications in the field of sustainability are a plus.

Minimum 8 to 10 y. of experience in natural raw material value chain project management with arobust expertise in sustainable and regenerative agriculture practices; proven knowledge in thedairy and/or arable crop industry(-ies) is a strong plus.

Demonstrated experience in working with agricultural value chain players from farmers tomanufacturers and managing complex multi-stakeholder projects

Good understanding of MRV frameworks and certifications as well as corporate reporting requirements (scope 3 biodiversity etc.).

Ability to engage across a wide spectrum of stakeholders within Givaudan (procurement sustainability business and customers) and with external organizations (multi-stakeholdercollaborative platforms) as well as boots on the ground engagement when collaborating withsuppliers and farmers

Strong data analysis and interpretation skills to set and monitor meaningful KPIs and track theimpact of projects. Use data-driven outcomes to support decision making and continuouslyimprove the project rollout

Experience in an international and complex work environment; experience in influencing energizing advocating and working with diverse multi-stakeholder teams from multiplegeographies and cultures

Fluency in English and ideally in French; additional languages are a plus.

At Givaudan you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch peoples lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture where you can thrive collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

Required Experience:

Senior IC