Jobbeschreibung
FLOCERT is the exclusive provider of certification and assurance services for Fairtrade around the world. Its best-in-class certification services across global supply chains are underpinned by Fairtrade's mission to promote fairness, sustainability and ethical standards.
FLOCERT's unique assurance capabilities within the Fairtrade System provide a platform for revenue growth and diversification. Wider transformation is aimed at greater commercial focus and optimising core performance, without neglecting FLOCERT's purpose-driven principles. For more information, please click here.
Reporting to the Supervisory board, the new CEO's mission is to devise and execute the growth strategy, leveraging capabilities in new ways, developing innovative propositions and shaping a commercial business culture.
Ideal role for a commercial leader and masterful relationship-builder who shares a passion for sustainability, driven by the opportunity to make a difference at the ‘epicentre' of ethical standards of fairness in global trade.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to the Board, full Profit and Loss (P+L) accountability for global assurance, certification and consulting revenues and EBIT
- Drive revenue growth, evolve and embed sustainable new value propositions, growing brand impact and projection
- Champion FLOCERT across complex Fairtrade stakeholder landscape and beyond, standard-bearer of fairness in trade
- Cross-functional leadership with global remit across team of 200+, responsible for refining service definition and delivery
- Shape strategy and implement a commercial business culture across a context driven by social / ethical mission
- Bring clarity and focus to service development and FLOCERT's role in the world and across complex value chains
- Deploy thought leadership; leverage trends / techniques in standards / assurance across increasingly challenging context
- Lead, develop and motivate the team across disciplines / geographies, drive ‘can-do', risk-aware culture and disciplines
- High-visibility ambassador and reputation-builder; proactive, robust driver of growth and evolution with contextual sensitivity.
- 15+ years' demonstrable success in €50 million+ P+L leadership; proven revenue growth success entering new segments
- CEO / Geschäftsführer with growth record across global consumer / retail / co-operatives categories, with sustainability bias
- Alternatively, leadership in standards, assurance, certification and/or relevant consulting – with corresponding prominence
- Outstanding communicator; demonstrable system thinking across complex global value chains and stakeholder landscapes
- Incisive and diplomatic, with track record of balancing commercial and ethical / sustainability mission-driven agendas
- Functional leadership covering all commercial disciplines, highlighting sales acumen and relationship-building excellence
- Polished international presence with undoubted authority and ethical standards, accustomed to compliance scrutiny
- Demonstrable operational detail / process orientation to underpin cohesion, sustainability and business ‘backbone'
- Clear track record of building and rolling out new reputation-enhancing and revenue-generating propositions internationally
- Visible passion for sustainability subject-matter; inspiring, outcome-oriented simplifier with urgency and charisma.