Assistant Environmental Manager
Location: Viet Nam
Responsibilities and Duties
- Lead the engagement and collaboration with suppliers to develop and implement decarbonization and environmental improvement strategies and measure progress toward targets.
- Assess supplier environmental footprints (carbon, energy, waste, water) and support the development of performance improvement plans. Experience in wastewater improvement initiatives is considered an advantage.
- Identify operational gaps and co-develop practical solutions with suppliers.
- Conduct site visits, workshops, and technical support sessions to build supplier capabilities.
- Partner with procurement, group sustainability team (ESG), and operational teams to ensure supplier alignment with corporate sustainability policies and standards.
- Provide feedback and insights to internal teams on supplier performance and challenges.
- Contribute to internal dashboards and progress reports.
- Support audits, sustainability reviews, and reporting cycles tied to supplier performance and climate action.
- Monitor emerging regulations and corporate commitments relevant to supplier environmental performance, assisting suppliers in achieving compliance.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree on Environmental Science, Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, or related field.
- Professional certifications in environmental management, carbon accounting, or supply chain sustainability preferred.
- 5+ years relevant experience, preferably within sustainability, supply chain, or supplier management.
- Proven track record in driving supplier engagement on climate actions, decarbonization, or environmental impact projects.
- Experience in manufacturing or large-scale procurement business environment preferred.
- Able to collect and evaluate supplier environmental metrics (e.g. carbon emissions, water use, wastes...etc) and identify performance improvement gaps.
- Able to translate data insights into actionable recommendations for environmental improvements.
- Strong understanding of carbon accounting (including scope 1, 2, & 3 emissions).
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and partnership skills with suppliers.
- Analytical skills for data management and performance tracking.
- ~30% local & international travel
- Fluent in English