Job Purpose: Support ESG across the entire company – facilitating the development of Brewing a Better Vietnam- to deliver our sustainability agenda & ambitions, support business performance, and enhance HEINEKEN Vietnam’s reputation as the leading sustainable corporate entity in Vietnam.
This goal is mainly achieved by:
Orchestrating with relevant internal and external stakeholders to coordinate and drive the BABV agenda with good governance.
Identifying and implementing BABV data and information assurance
Promoting ESG & circularity awareness and practices across the business, HVN’s value chain and to wider external business, industry, media, governmental units and NGOs.
Being the CA coordinator & contributor across projects led by other functions across the value chain (e.g. renewable energy) as well as being the driver of circularity
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Key Accountabilities:
1.ESG (BABV) awareness, capabilities building & communication:
- Identify initiatives that can support building ESG (BABV) & circularity awareness & capabilities amongst HVN employees, HVN business partners in the value chain and wider external businesses that are relevant and support HVN business sustainability agenda.
- Create and implement annual plan on this topic.
- Collaborate with communication team and other sections (L&D, HR, commercial, sales, etc…) to optimize all relevant and possible internal channels and drive deliverables.
- Initiate and create presentations and speaking notes for HVN executives to share at internal and external events, conferences, forums, media interviews, etc…
- Work with colleagues in communication team to bring our BaBV stories to life for internal and external stakeholders with inspiring and impactful communications.
2. BABW data management, sustainability reporting & assurance
- Monitor BaBV performance tracking system, making sure data is recorded and reported accurately, timely and fully.
- Set up and manage internal system to collect and record BABV best practices that are relevant and support HVN sustainability agenda from all relevant departments.
- Analyse performance trends and discuss with relevant project leaders for proper corrective actions.
- Understand initiatives behind the data and translate data into impact and value.
- Work with relevant partners to develop sustainability report content and appreciate the different interests of different stakeholders.
- Engage with external stakeholders to exchange best practices, enhance corporate reputation through BaBV agenda
- Manage submission for sustainability-related awards/ranking.
- Track and record all relevant outcomes for report and communication
- Work with third parties for BABV data / claim assurance/certificate where required.
3. CA representative in environmental & responsible pillars
- Be a CA representative in driving implementation of environmental & responsible initiatives that are led by other sections / departments defined in BABV governance such as Net Zero in value chain, biomass source, EPR, etc… and where appropriate, take the lead in initiating cross-functional teams (e.g. on circularity & EPR)
- Engage and manage internal & external stakeholders to assess and identify status/maturity and gaps of these topics against set ambition/goal defined in “Brew a Better Vietnam” strategy.
- Shape and drive the direction to ensure deliverable vs set ambition/goal.
- Work, seek support, or give support to global, where relevant, on these topics.
- Be a sustainability-risk approver in third party risk management system.
Note: Partnerships Specialist will lead the delivery of the CA Partnerships under all pillars, ESG Manager & Specialist will support on all other projects outside of those.
4. Manage external agency and budget: Manage external agencies and budget, with Cost and Value mindset, while ensuring excellent execution, KPIs delivery and impact measurement.
5. Develop self, people and culture:
- Develop self as a high-performing, action-biased, result-oriented and data-driven team member.
- Act and collaborate with a “company-first” mindset and add value to the business.
- Be a trusted sustainability partner to internal and external stakeholders.
- Give constructive feedback to managers and peers.
- Manage effective performance management & career development for self.
- Coach and manage performance for intern, if any.
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Measures of Success:
- Adequate ESG (BABV) & circularity awareness / capabilities within HEINEKEN Vietnam employees and in value chain, where relevant.
- Trust and thoughtful sustainability business partner to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Accurate and OTIF data and info of BABV and sustainability report.
- High ranking/award in sustainability for HEINEKEN Vietnam.
- Bold and effective initiatives to achieve set targets/goals of in-charge topics
- Effective stakeholder management with strong relationships and high credibility
- Effective budget and impact management
Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or higher
Experience Required:
- More than 4 years of working experience in sustainability / ESG, circularity, environmental advocacy or communication
- Good knowledge of ESG & circularity principles
- Great networking & influencing skills to engage wide range of audience
- Information & data gathering and interpreting skills
- Understanding of how traditional and social media works
- Understanding principles of how to translate consumer insights and brand DNA into marketing activities
- Organisational skills to manage demanding workload and priorities
- Ability to handle complex issues, grasp complex information, adapt well to contextual changes and communicate simply and creatively.
- Excellent writing & presentation skills
Strong project management
Organisational skills to manage demanding workload and priorities
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Key Behaviours:
- Be curious with internal and external sustainability / circularity trend and movement
- See things in big pictures and from different perspectives
- Seek collaboration and drive the moves
- Measure outcome by impact assessment and analysis
- Be comfortable with complexity, uncertainties and ambiguity
- Agile, growth mindset, bold, willing to try new things and fail forward
- Have great sense of job ownership, responsibility and accountability
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Language(s): Fluent in Vietnamese and very good English (verbal and written)
