Head of Corporate Social Responsibility

With Chr. Hansen’s business strategy, Nature’s No. 1, we have a vision of enabling the wider adoption of natural ingredients and bioscience solutions to address important global challenges within food, health and agriculture. As a result, we consider social responsibility an integral part of our company’s purpose: it is about the solutions we develop and it is about the manner in which we deliver them.

To help us translate our commitment to CSR into concrete strategies, goals and activities to the benefit of the company and its stakeholders, we are looking for a new head of Corporate Social Responsibility to join us at our head office in Hørsholm.

As our new Head of CSR you will be responsible for shaping Chr. Hansen’s global strategy and approach to CSR in close collaboration with senior management and the relevant internal functions. You will be responsible for a small but committed team with two direct reports – 1 CSR advisor and 1 student worker - with a broad contact base within and outside the organization.

Your main tasks
Define Chr. Hansen’s global CSR strategy, targets and KPIs in close cooperation with senior management and relevant internal functions

Drive the annual CSR reporting process in line with Chr. Hansen’s reporting obligations and ambitions

Help further strengthen Chr. Hansen’s internal governance structure with a view to integrate material CSR issues into the core business

Further improve/strengthen Chr. Hansen’s internal policies, positions, guidelines and tools on relevant CSR issues in collaboration with the relevant functions

Advance Chr. Hansen’s efforts in quantifying and qualifying the social, economic and environmental impacts of our products and applications

Communicate about Chr. Hansen’s CSR impacts and progress to internal and external stakeholders, namely customers, investors and employees

Represent Chr. Hansen in meetings with key customers and investors

Ensure a steady flow of good CSR content for social media, corporate website, CH’s intranet

Identify strategic partnership opportunities in support of Chr. Hansen’s global focus issues on CSR and our long-term business objectives

Ad-hoc tasks, including department admin, issue management, investor and customer request handling etc.

Your personal profile
Relevant business and/or scientific degree (Master or PhD degree) e.g. marketing, communications, political science, business administration, engineering, biology or similar

Broad experience with CSR and corporate sustainability, e.g. from sustainability consultancy or similar roles, with a good eye for how the agenda can drive commercial value and support a company’s core business objectives

Strong strategic skills combined with high levels of personal efficiency and execution power, a positive outlook and a “can-do” attitude

A natural preference for engaging with a wide array of internal and external stakeholders with the ability to build trust at all levels of a global organization

Experience and insights into the biotechnology sector and/or the food and agriculture sector is considered an advantage

We offer
A challenging position in a large global company committed to CSR, both in what we do (our products) and how we do it (our processes). You will get the chance to build up a large internal and external network as you help take our CSR efforts to the next level. The position involves limited travel activity.

If you have any questions for the position, please feel free to contact Eva Hald, Director Corporate Communications & CSR at +45 3060 4526.

Please apply on-line, click Apply. Here you can enter your details into our CV bank.

Deadline for application is 30 November 2015.

Read more about working for Chr. Hansen at: www.chr-hansen/career

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