Procurement Regenerative Agriculture Manager

Position Snapshot
- Location: La-Tour-De-Peilz, Switzerland
- Company: Nestlé Global Procurement Division
- Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100 %
- Type of contract: Permanent role

What we offer at Nestle
- Exciting opportunities to develop your career your way; across different brands, businesses, functions, and regions.
- Flexible working arrangements - facilitating creativity and collaboration.
- A culture of respect, with diversity, equity and inclusion at its core.
- A dynamic international environment empowering you to learn, develop and grow.

Don’t hesitate to connect with us during the recruitment process to learn more.

Position Summary

Procurement at Nestlé:
As a strategic partner to our businesses, we drive sustainable growth and unlock long-term value. With over 40 different nationalities based across our three dynamic hubs in Switzerland, Panama, and Malaysia, we operate on a truly global scale. With a strong focus on innovation and deep commitment to sustainability, we’re shaping the future of procurement. Our diverse teams lead with purpose, ensuring value creation through responsibly sourced supply across a broad range of direct and indirect categories. Join us and Be a Force for Good.

A day in the life of a Procurement Regenerative Agriculture Manager:
Lead Regenerative Agriculture for Nestlé Global Procurement - provide strategic direction & drive capability building:

- Oversee RegenAg project delivery together with suppliers, procurement managers, Sustainability Acceleration Team and Nestle’s agronomists/technical advisors.
- Partner with Corporate & Procurement Senior Stakeholders to define the most efficient ways of working and processes for an effective oversight of Regenerative Agriculture projects & pathways.
- Guide our Sustainability Acceleration Team in supporting the delivery of projects contributing to Regenerative Agriculture.
- Explore pathways that allow our projects to accelerate their Regenerative Agricultural deliverables to support our Decarbonization, Resilience & Brand Valorization journey.
- Act as first escalation point for Regenerative Agriculture projects to Procurement Stakeholders.
- Ensure project progress and milestones with suppliers through different KPIs (e.g. RegenAg KPI, SAI Platform RTF ) and reporting systems (Service Now / PowerBIs).
- Ensure compliance to Nestlé's Corporate Business Principles & Standards, and provide insight in the development of Regenerative Agriculture guidances to Corporate functions.

What will make you successful
- University degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Agronomy or Environmental Sciences. Agronomy / Sustainability experience is a strong plus. Commercial/Procurement acumen another.
- Knowing how to navigate a complex matrix of different stakeholders at Local level as well as corporate level.
- Ensuring effective stakeholder management, converging different interests, and managing corporate targets whilst balancing budget requirements.
- Well established and proven experience in a global role ideally related to Procurement/Sustainability/Agronomy.
- Previous team management experience, or equivalent experiences highlighting strong leadership / coordination capabilities within a team.
- Ability to work in an international, complex, ambiguous environment.
- At ease with different IT systems (ServiceNow, Excel, PowerPoint, Power Bi).
- Understand business objectives and ensure alignment with your work
- Initiative and Capability to deal with ambiguity. Proven experience on building processes and ways of working from scratch.
- Communication skills towards external (Suppliers) and internal stakeholders.
- Strong Project Management skills and result focus mindset.
- Fluent in English, another language will be an asset.

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At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.

We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.

We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.