JOB DESCRIPTION
Key Responsibilities:
Client Engagement and Communication:
- Act as a trusted advisor on sustainability topics, particularly in Living Wage, Labour Rights, and Sustainable Procurement.
- Engage with clients, senior executives, and stakeholders to understand the challenges and opportunities in human rights in their value chain, especially in living wage and help navigate their living wage journey
- Provide strategic recommendations helping clients embed sustainability into their business models.
- Offer technical guidance on sustainability frameworks, industry standards, and responsible sourcing practices.
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with key clients, ensuring continued engagement and long-term impact.
- Translate complex sustainability topics into practical and actionable insights for companies.
- Lead consultative discussions, workshops, and training sessions to build awareness and inspire action.
Project and Proposition Development:
- Leverage insights from client and partner conversations to take a lead role in IDH Solutions’ Living Wage proposition development team.
Develop new value propositions for IDH Solutions, based on the work done in impact themes of IDH especially in Better Jobs,
Operational Management:
- Collaborate with the management team to support development of strategic direction of the organization's initiatives
- Lead in the proposal and contract development process, identifying effort estimations and potential risk factors in work execution and intellectual property. Oversee the execution of projects, ensuring they adhere to planned timelines and objectives, delivering quality while looking for ways to optimise the processes and procedures
Technical Knowledge:
Keep up to date with regulatory changes, industry standards, and best practices in sustainability.
Develop guidelines, reports, and case studies to enhance industry knowledge-sharing.
Capture key learnings and continuously evaluate and improve future projects and increase impact.
Who you are:
As a Social Sustainability manager at IDH Solutions, you have a strong grasp of sustainability topics, particularly Living Wage, Labour Rights, and Sustainable Procurement, and can translate them into compelling yet pragmatic projects for clients who trust you for strategic guidance on their living wage journey. Your entrepreneurial mindset enables you to navigate a fast-paced, dynamic environment, seizing opportunities to grow your portfolio and develop new solutions effectively.
With a strong focus on work efficiency, you manage multiple projects seamlessly, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery. Your customer-oriented approach allows you to deeply understand client needs, tailoring solutions that drive both business value and positive social impact. You thrive in collaborative settings, working closely with internal and external stakeholders to execute sustainability strategies with tangible results.
Your exceptional verbal, written, and visual communication skills enable you to develop high-quality project materials and maintain strong relationships with clients, internal teams, and leadership. You can effectively navigate complex sustainability challenges, ensuring alignment and engagement across all levels. Your ability to combine technical expertise, stakeholder management, and strategic thinking allows you to deliver living wage projects that make a real difference to workers across client value chains.
What you bring:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working level in business, environmental management, political and social sciences, etc.
- 5-8 years of relevant working experience in international organizations or settings, preferably in business development, project management, or developing public-private partnerships.
- Strong understanding of sustainability issues, labour rights and sustainable procurement practices, especially living wage
- Excellent client-facing and communication skills.
- Team player with can-do mentality, action oriented, and able to deliver work autonomously
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, especially Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience in project management, monitoring and evaluation, and financial administration.
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States
