Careers
We love what we do! We’re on a journey to make international trade fair for everyone – and we’d love you to bring in your expertise!
FLOCERT is a business with a difference. We’re a social enterprise, which means all of our money is invested back into social and environmental change. We are highly values-driven – and our values are the key to our success. When you join us, you can be sure that you’ll never have to move your ethics down your agenda.
CEO / Geschäftsführer (m/f/div)
Introduction & Description
Description
- Job Share: Full-time (40 hours per week)
- Location: FLOCERT GmbH Headquarter Bonn, Germany
- Salary: The salary and benefit package depend upon qualifications and experience
- Start date: As soon as possible
Your responsibilities
- Reporting to the Board, full Profit and Loss (P+L) accountability for global assurance, certification and consulting revenues and EBIT
- Drive revenue growth, evolve and embed sustainable new value propositions, growing brand impact and projection
- Champion FLOCERT across complex Fairtrade stakeholder landscape and beyond, standard-bearer of fairness in trade
- Cross-functional leadership with global remit across team of 200+, responsible for refining service definition and delivery
- Shape strategy and implement a commercial business culture across a context driven by social / ethical mission
- Bring clarity and focus to service development and FLOCERT’s role in the world and across complex value chains
- Deploy thought leadership; leverage trends / techniques in standards / assurance across increasingly challenging context
- Lead, develop and motivate the team across disciplines / geographies, drive ‘can-do’, risk-aware culture and disciplines
- High-visibility ambassador and reputation-builder; proactive, robust driver of growth and evolution with contextual sensitivity
Your qualifications, experience and skills
- 15+ years’ demonstrable success in €50 million+ P+L leadership; proven revenue growth success entering new segments
- CEO / Geschäftsführer with growth record across global consumer / retail / co-operatives categories, with sustainability bias
- Alternatively, leadership in standards, assurance, certification and/or relevant consulting – with corresponding prominence
- Outstanding communicator; demonstrable system thinking across complex global value chains and stakeholder landscapes
- Incisive and diplomatic, with track record of balancing commercial and ethical / sustainability mission-driven agendas
- Functional leadership covering all commercial disciplines, highlighting sales acumen and relationship-building excellence
- Polished international presence with undoubted authority and ethical standards, accustomed to compliance scrutiny
- Demonstrable operational detail / process orientation to underpin cohesion, sustainability and business ‘backbone’
- Clear track record of building and rolling out new reputation-enhancing and revenue-generating propositions internationally
- Visible passion for sustainability subject-matter; inspiring, outcome-oriented simplifier with urgency and charisma
How to apply
Kindly note: Please be advised that FLOCERT is collaborating with the external executive recruitment firms 'Sand Partners & Samuel Jacques Associates' for this recruitment process. They will be your first point of contact, receive and review your application as well as may contact you further in the process.
If none of the above positions is a right fit, send us an unsolicited job application to recruitment@flocert.net and subscribe to our jobalert.
After you apply: One step closer to joining our team
Once you have applied for one of our positions listed above, we will carefully screen your application based on the skills and experience required for the job.
If it's a great match, we will contact you to schedule a (remote) interview. As part of the interview process, we may ask you to complete an online assessment to further assess your skills.
Once all interviews are completed, and a decision has been taken, we will inform all shortlisted candidates. If you are successful, we will offer you an employment contract. Our journey together starts when the contract is signed, and we can welcome you to FLOCERT to start your onboarding process.
FLOCERT is an organisation I'd be proud to retire from—though I'm not planning on that anytime soon! The vibrant, multicultural work culture, which is both friendly and inspiring, makes every day enjoyable. The work-life balance is a standout feature, with a flexible model that lets me work partially from home – a huge advantage since I live out of state. I'm grateful to be part of such an amazing organisation and look forward to continuing my journey here.
”Jasleen Kaur
Key Account Officer
FLOCERT is a Great Place To Work
FLOCERT is one of the winners of this year's Great Place to Work® competition, "Best Workplaces in North Rhine-Westphalia 2024".
In receiving this prestigious accolade, FLOCERT reaffirms its commitment to fostering an exceptional workplace culture that transcends borders and resonates deeply with its global workforce.
Watch Christian Jambor, Head of Human Resources at FLOCERT, explain why this certification is important to our organisation.
Your best career move yet
With headquarters in Germany and regional offices in Costa Rica, England, India, South Africa and the United States, there are plenty of opportunities to expand your horizons. Our team is full of cultural diversity and creativity, and we respect and learn from each other's ways of working – but when it comes down to it, we all share the same ethical principles and values.
At FLOCERT, we value attitude just as highly as formal qualifications. Every individual in our team has an entrepreneurial spirit and is proud to own their role. A shared eagerness to learn and develop means that our organisation is always alive with fresh ideas and enthusiasm. Innovation plays a key role in FLOCERT's success in a dynamic environment.
Be the future of Fairtrade
As ethical awareness grows across the world, so does Fairtrade. In conjunction with the German dual vocational training system Berufsausbildung, we're proud to welcome the upcoming generation into this extraordinary sector. Our apprenticeships are designed to give the freshest talent in our sector a well-rounded introduction to Fairtrade.
To make sure we're always doing the best by our team, we partner with prestigious institutions such as Great Place To Work and berufundfamilie.
