Sustainability Program Lead - Dairy Value Chain

Jobtailor; Minnesota; On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Agropur in Minnesota seeks a Senior Sustainability Manager to drive value creation across the dairy value chain through cross-functional collaboration and project leadership. You will implement sustainability initiatives with commercial, supply chain, and sustainability teams and engage customers and suppliers to advance outcomes.

The role focuses on developing metrics, reporting processes, and monitoring performance to support business decisions and strategic sustainability goals within a

Qualifications

• 5+ years in food industry, business development, client relations, and PM.
• Food industry knowledge of sustainability objectives, goals, and programming.
• Business understanding (P&L, end-to-end business development and sales processes).
• Customer/consumer oriented.
• Project management skills: From Idea to Execution.
• Partnership Management.
• Business-oriented, proactive, and problem-solving for marketing, sales.

Responsibilities

• Supports sustainability value creation across Agropur’s dairy value chain through cross‑functional collaboration and project management
• Works with commercial, supply chain, and sustainability teams to implement initiatives
• Supports customer and industry commitments, measures performance, and advances sustainability outcomes with customers, suppliers, and other key stakeholders
• Manages sustainability commitments and customer engagement initiatives with global workstream teams
• Partners with Category, Sales, and Operations teams to support sustainability strategy implementation
• Develops and maintains tools, metrics, and reporting processes to evaluate, measure, and monitor sustainability performance

Skills

Sustainability

Project management

Cross-functional collab

Business development

Customer relations

Strategic planning

Partnership management

Tools

Reporting processes

Metrics development

Job description

Agropur in Minnesota seeks a Senior Sustainability Manager to drive value creation across the dairy value chain through cross-functional collaboration and project leadership. You will implement sustainability initiatives with commercial, supply chain, and sustainability teams and engage customers and suppliers to advance outcomes.

The role focuses on developing metrics, reporting processes, and monitoring performance to support business decisions and strategic sustainability goals within a