Ice Cream Social Mission Director, Ben & Jerry's
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About The Position
The Global Social Mission Director serves as a senior leader for the Company's Social Mission, which together with the Economic and Product Missions, form the three-part mission that drives Ben & Jerry's. The Social Mission Director leads a dynamic team overseeing initiatives at global and regional levels to advance Ben & Jerry's core values of human rights and dignity, social and economic justice, and environmental protection, restoration, and regeneration. The Social Mission team is headquartered in Vermont with team members working across ten other countries, leveraging the company's influence in society to achieve progressive systemic change. The Social Mission Director is accountable for all Social Mission subjects including company sustainability; carbon footprint reduction strategy & implementation to meet our science-based targets; sustainable packaging progress, activism campaigns in partnership with NGOs on issues such as racial equity, criminal legal system reform, refugee and asylum seeker rights, climate justice, and LGBTQ rights; supporting our Values Led Sourcing strategy covering programs for key ingredients such as dairy and cocoa, partnerships with social enterprises and NGOs, achieving our supplier diversity goals; and overseeing organization-wide certifications like B-Corp and the annual reporting of the SEAR (Social and Environmental Assessment Report). The Social Mission Director reports to the CEO and serves on the company's senior leadership team. As Social Mission is woven throughout the company, the Social Mission Director liaises and collaborates across all functions. The position manages a core team of direct reports with extended team members based in Vermont, our European HQ located outside of London, and several additional global markets. The Social Mission Director works with the Ben & Jerry's Board of Directors which has primary responsibility for protecting and enhancing Social Mission and brand integrity under the unique agreement of Unilever's acquisition of Ben & Jerry's in 2000. The Social Mission Director also collaborates regularly with Unilever's sustainability leadership & teams within the Ice Cream division and across various functions to leverage and grow collective positive impact.
