Director, Sustainable Products and Suppliers

Our Global Support Center / Corporate Office Location

Our Global Support Center / Corporate Office is located in the Energy Corridor- off I10 and N Eldridge.

1390 Enclave Pkwy, Houston, TX 77077

In-office Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday. Work from home on Thursday and Friday.

Sysco has ambitions to lead the food industry in Sustainability and has set ambitious goals across people, product and planet pillars. To enable this ambition, Sysco is moving to a functionalized Sustainability team across its businesses and geographies. This will help drive value in sustainability, efficiencies and cost reductions as we organize the team into specific roles and focus areas. As part of this new structure, an expanded role is required to lead the global Sustainable Product and Sourcing Center of Excellent (CoE).

This role will be responsible for developing and executing against sustainability strategies with the merchandising teams, focused on the USFS, and coordinating with global merchandising team and initiatives in these businesses that drive revenue through offering more sustainable products and sourcing to our customer who are demanding action and shifting volume to more sustainable suppliers. This role requires executive level influence and communication skills to deliver results as well as leadership skills to grow and develop team members.

• Crafts and executes strategies to progress Sysco’s Sustainability Initiatives, Commitments, and Goals while increasing Suppliers’ Sustainable Practices.
• Lead engagement with merchandising (including Sysco Brand) to prioritize and coordinate supplier communication.
• Lead engagement with suppliers to enable them to list more sustainable products and improve the sustainability of their current operations.
• Work collaboratively with members of the Global Sustainability team to integrate other supplier topics such as human rights, packaging, regenerative ag and other topics to create one central point of contact for merchandising.

This leader is focused upstream – and will be partner with Sustainability team members who own downstream (Customer) strategy and communications.

Owner of our Sustainable Assortment (One Planet One Table) for USFS – create an assortment that drives value for Sysco:

• Own and iterate the brand and structure of the assortment.
• Work with other members of the Sustainability team to prioritize assortment changes and upgrades to meet the needs of customers.
• Owns the governance process for new certifications / attributes for our assortment.
• Tracking and communications of assortment performance.

Act as central point of contact for USFS Merchandising across all sourcing related topics plastics/packaging, regenerative agriculture, deforestation – enabling reaching our supplier/sourcing focused targets – work with others in the Sustainability team to coordinate merchandising asks:

• Collaborate with other sustainability leaders to iterate and communicate plans to merchandising.
• Embed sustainability into merchandising through JBP’s, PGM and other processes.
• Share materials that enable suppliers across topics, including trainings (merch and supplier).
• Lead sessions with Merchandising to educate them on Sustainability.
• Lead regular ELT level updates to Merchandising leaders and other ELT members.
• Owner of the supplier council which brings together our top suppliers to discuss sustainability and commit to initiatives.
• Own the annual Supplier Sustainability Summit.

Owner in delivering Sysco’s global scope 3 Category 3.1 emissions targets (currently 67% of supplier emissions with a science based target by 2026)

• Create a Merchandising and Supplier engagement strategy to reach our goals.
• Engage directly with suppliers on their transition plans and for large suppliers, enable them to set a goal and reduce their emissions.
• Track and report our progress – suggest changes to reach out goal.
• Contribute (but does not own).

Owner of Sustainability data strategy globally, work with the Technology, Reporting, Sales and Merchandising teams to prioritize and develop data systems that enable value driving use cases:

• Owns…