Supplier performance and commercial integration:
Influences supplier allocation, contracting strategy (MSAs, SOWs), and performance management decisions, including implementation and evolution of Long-Term Relationship (LTR) models to align commercial outcomes with sustainability and risk priorities. Represents company in supplier and partner engagements, influencing delivery models, expectations, and performance standards across the supply base.
Human Rights & Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD):
Accountable for implementation and supplier-level execution of due diligence frameworks across cocoa supply chains. Leads supplier-facing due diligence processes, including risk identification, mitigation tracking, and continuous improvement, ensuring alignment with regulatory expectations and delivery of measurable risk mitigation outcomes across suppliers and origins.
Program and partner strategy:
Leads the design and continuous improvement of supplier programs and partner models. Ensures alignment with company cocoa sustainability priorities and drives consistency across suppliers and origins. Contributes to partner selection, contracting approach, and program structure. Drives consistency and scalability of delivery models across suppliers, including alignment with LTR structures and long-term partner engagement strategies.
Team leadership and resource allocation:
Leads a multi-disciplinary team (direct reports and contractors), setting priorities, allocating resources, and driving delivery across suppliers and origins. Accountable for team performance, capability development, and ways of working in line with evolving business and regulatory needs.
Innovation and new origins development
Leads development of supplier and partner models in new and emerging origins (e.g., Ecuador, Brazil), including scoping, partner engagement, and early-stage program design and implementation.
Data, assurance, and reporting integration
Accountable for integrity of supplier data inputs and linkage to reporting outputs. Works in close collaboration with Data, Learning and Assurance roles to ensure consistency between program delivery, data capture, and reporting, supporting audit-ready documentation and insights-driven decision-making. Ensures data is used to inform supplier performance decisions, program adjustments, and commercial discussions.
