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tms · 1 week ago

Senior Advocacy & External Engagement Manager

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$130K/yr - $150K/yr

4+ years exp

tms is a global company uniting technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for leading brands. The Senior Advocacy & External Engagement Manager will play a crucial role in navigating the legislative landscape for foodservice packaging, ensuring compliance and fostering collaboration with key stakeholders.

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Responsibilities

Monitoring and maintaining a full, integrated understanding of regulations, legislation, and market activities affecting or potentially affecting packaging at the federal, state and local level

Ensuring a robust understanding and visibility into sustainability labels, marketing claims, and the FTC Green Guides

Identifying where opportunity and deployment gaps exist and building proposals on how these can be addressed

Developing awareness and communication of compliance requirements across the relevant tms functions and supporting development of action plans and prioritization to achieve market compliance

Providing subject matter expertise, and engaging with key stakeholders, both client and internal cross-functional teams, in disseminating key information on legislative requirements

Managing the development of education and communication vehicles for key stakeholders, relevant to legislative packaging and its impact to the Client’s products and supply chain

Maintaining and fostering partnerships with key external stakeholders

Attending relevant industry conferences, forums, roundtables, etc. as deemed appropriate

Qualification

Legislation trackingSustainable packaging knowledgeData managementLegislation analysisCommunication skillsPeople managementResearch skillsAnalytical skillsInterpersonal skills

Required

People management and leadership skills as you will head a small team focused on delivering client services

The ability to interpret and communicate regional compliance needs to support the deployment of sustainability strategies

Development and delivery of tailored approaches to meet rapidly evolving Client needs

Experience in managing complex legislative requirements and responding to Client and Supply Chain queries on complex issues

Experience in systems and process development and supporting technology enablement to advance our tracking and reporting capabilities

Legislation tracking, interpretation and analysis experience

Ability to accurately translate legislative requirements

Demonstrated success managing information to ensure quality, on-time delivery of sustainability legislation reports, and support business continuity

Adeptness in legislative foresight and risk mitigation strategies

Data management experience

Experience with creating reports using multifaceted data sets to communicate, interpret and use for informed decision-making

Management, maintaining, and development of database systems and processes

Ability to develop and present complex information clearly and simply, catering to audiences with varied levels of expertise (internally and externally)

Strong interpersonal skills and building and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships to foster collaboration and navigate legislative dynamics

Minimum 4 years professional experience in legislation tracking, interpretation and development of response strategies

Sustainable packaging knowledge and how packaging can be impacted by legislation

An understanding of Extended Producer Responsibility packaging laws and requirements

An understanding of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Green Guides, sustainability labelling (e.g., How to Recycle, BPI, FSC) and general sustainability marketing claims

Data management

Strong research and analytical skills

Highly collaborative and able to build productive relationships

Ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams