Senior Advocacy & External Engagement Manager

Reporting

Location:

Chicago - 345 North Morgan

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Starting salary between $130,000 -$150,000 base, plus bonus.

ABOUT US

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With 1,200+ employees across 26 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

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Manager, Sustainability Legislation will sit within our tms, Packaging, Sustainability team.

The Sustainability team supports the delivery of client Sustainability strategic objectives, focused on product and supply chain, through operations, reporting and legislation tracking. To do so our team collaborates with key stakeholders across various internal and client cross-functional teams, Suppliers, Consultants and external organisations. Our global Sustainability team sits across 3 geographic regions, supporting global, regional and market activities.

In this role, your work will be pivotal in supporting our North American market Client navigate a complex legislative landscape, ensuring legislative compliance for their food service packaging portfolio.

• Monitoring and maintaining a full, integrated understanding of regulations, legislation, and market activities affecting or potentially affecting packaging at the federal, state and local level.
• Ensuring a robust understanding and visibility into sustainability labels, marketing claims, and the FTC Green Guides.
• Identifying where opportunity and deployment gaps exist and building proposals on how these can be addressed.
• Developing awareness and communication of compliance requirements across the relevant tms functions and supporting development of action plans and prioritization to achieve market compliance.
• Providing subject matter expertise, and engaging with key stakeholders, both client and internal cross-functional teams, in disseminating key information on legislative requirements.
• Managing the development of education and communication vehicles for key stakeholders, relevant to legislative packaging and its impact to the Client’s products and supply chain.
• Maintaining and fostering partnerships with key external stakeholders.
• Attending relevant industry conferences, forums, round tables, etc. as deemed appropriate.

• People management and leadership skills as you will head a small team focused on delivering client services.
• The ability to interpret and communicate regional compliance needs to support the deployment of sustainability strategies.
• Development and delivery of tailored approaches to meet rapidly evolving Client needs.
• Experience in managing complex legislative requirements and responding to Client and Supply Chain queries on complex issues.
• Experience in systems and process development and supporting technology enablement to advance our tracking and reporting capabilities. In addition, we will be looking for the following:

• Legislation tracking, interpretation and analysis experience.
• Ability to accurately translate legislative requirements.
• Demonstrated success managing…