Overview
The
Food Waste Retail Program Manager
will
lead work efforts within grocery retail and food service retail industries and
individual companies to set science based and data driven goals, focused on
preventing food waste and increasing food recovery efforts. The position will
work directly with the current Food Waste Program Director and the Food Waste
Program Manager and will oversee all domestic and international partnership
efforts on the food retailing industry. This position will support the data
collection and analysis efforts from pilot interventions with private &
public-sector partners that attempt to find food waste prevention best
practices.
Responsibilities
- Lead
retail and food service programmatic work streams for US domestic food
waste program projects; - Analyze
data from multiple sources including food costs, sales data (POS), waste
disposal composting, anaerobic digestion, and weights & measures from
food waste pilot programs; - Organize
and coordinate data collection with demonstration projects in the field
with merchandising teams (retail) and with culinary and operation teams
within food service (restaurants); - Create
retail and food service analytics and reports for the Food Waste team and
provide insights and analysis; - Data
entry, analysis, data visualization and management (Excel MS, Tableau,
Power Bi); - Capable
of creating presentations and synthesize results for multiple audiences
including internal WWF senior leadership and with external stakeholders. - Performs
other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s
Degree Required, Master’s Degree Preferred - 8+
years of relevant experience as defined below - Proven
experience leading teams and managing large multi-stakeholder projects; - Must
have strong experience working in food retailing (grocery retail).
Experience in restaurant food service also preferred. - Must
have strong proficiency in leading data analysis projects using MS Excel,
data management best practices, and data visualization tools; - Proactive
problem-solving and good communication skills (written and verbal); - Ability
to work productively on independent research, data collection and analysis
assignments and as part of a team; - Demonstrated
familiarity with the environmental impacts of food waste, greenhouse gas
accounting principles, and the World Resources Institute’s reporting
protocols and standards, specifically the Food Loss and Waste Standard strongly
preferred - Strong
research, statistical, analytical skills, organization skills and
attention to detail are obligatory; - Experience
with Green House Gas accounting methodology and/or reporting preferred; - Tableau
or equivalent experience preferred; - Fluency
in English is required. Fluency in Spanish a plus.
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