WRAP
Food Programme Lead - GHG

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Job type: Permanent full-time
Location: Banbury, London, Cardiff, or Belfast – you will be contractually based in the office nearest to you with hybrid working.
Hybrid working: You will be able to work from home and come into the office to collaborate with your team(s) when required. We have flexible core hours, and we don’t believe in a culture of presenteeism. We will discuss what is important to you during the recruitment process.
Salary & Benefits: £60,000 + 10% pension, 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, 35 hour working week, up to 13 flexi-days, private medical insurance, life assurance, and much more!
Closing date: 22 October at 08:00 AM BST. WRAP reserves the right to close this role early in the event of a large volume of applications.
Who are we?
WRAP is a global environmental action NGO transforming food, packaging, textiles and resource use systems in pursuit of circular living.
WRAP are the people who do. We convene. We evidence. We solve. We deliver.
For over 25 years, WRAP has innovated to meet the problems of the day.
We prevent waste and pollution to save money, improve living standards and protect natural habitats. We reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water stress to strengthen resilience and help meet environmental goals. We improve resource use to increase productivity and growth.
Across the world, we bring more than 1,000 businesses together with governments and civil society to tackle environmental challenges that require the collective action of many.
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Join us at WRAP and you'll drive important change to embed circular living in every boardroom and in every home.
The role
The global food system is responsible for around a third of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs). If we are serious about climate action, this is where change must accelerate.
At the same time, pressure on food businesses is intensifying. They are expected to cut supply chain emissions, manage climate risk and demonstrate credible progress. Investment decisions and supplier partnerships increasingly depend on having the right data: robust, trusted and decision ready.
Yet without coordination, this effort risks creating more noise than clarity. Duplication, fragmentation and wasted resource across the supply chain help no one. The industry does not want more complexity. It needs aligned, standardised, trustworthy solutions that still allow the flexibility to work with the right partners.
That is where WRAP comes in and where you could lead.
As our Food Programme Lead (GHG) you will lead a pivotal programme and directly manage a team of expert and dedicated specialists at the heart of the food system’s transition to net zero.
Our GHG Team plays a vital role, connecting government, industry and data innovators. Through the UK Food and Drinks Pact, we bring these actors together so businesses can move from data to confident action. Globally, we shape the data and how it flows. Trusted, open, accessible and comparable GHG data, compliant and aligned with key standards and reporting will enable a shift from measure and report to measure, report and reduce.


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You Will Bring
- Programme leadership and delivery in the food system – navigating complexity. Working externally with senior stakeholders and across teams internally to design, develop and implement impactful programmes
- Strong evidence of successful engagement and influence. Convening a range of stakeholders in the food system, such as government, business, sector bodies and academia. Providing clear, benefit-led, authoritative guidance to business leaders, policymakers and partners, and demonstrating impact.
- Programme development and delivery The ability to drive the GHG programme, ensuring coordinated action, high-quality outputs and outcomes and measurable progress. Developing new propositions that solve real-world problems that attract and secure funding from a range of sources
- Strong people leadership skills A track record of developing and empowering a high performing teams that develop, deliver and grow new high-quality and high-impact projects and relationships that attract and secure funding
If you are motivated by impact, comfortable operating at the intersection of data, policy and industry, and ready to lead at scale, we would love to hear from you.
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