Candida Barbato
Sustainability Director Emea (Contract) @HORTIFRUT
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WORK HISTORY
Sustainability Director Emea (Contract) @HORTIFRUT
Seville, ES
Member of the EMEA leadership team and global sustainability team, responsibilities include-co-developed the corporate sustainability strategy based on a robust materiality assessment, ensuring regional needs are met-facilitated internal approval and supervised the implementation of regional plans to ensure effective response to customer sustainability requirements and compliance with key European Sustainability legislation including EPR, PPWR, and CSRD across a complex, and evolving regional business structure-promoted a sustainability culture across functions, through thought leadership, training and leadership briefings, ensuring that new sustainability processes and practises are embedded in the business-coordinated the development of non financial reports according to legislation, contribute to the development of the Corporate Non Financial Report-managed relations with a wide range of environmental and social stakeholders including Non Governamental Organisations as well as Customers collaborative initiatives (FNET, ETI, WRAP, ETF ecc)-Small team leadership and development;
EDUCATION
Sapienza Università di Roma
Economics
HEC Paris
MBA, CSR/Ethical Business
Istituto tecnico commerciale C. Levi
Accounting and IT
SKILLS
ABOUT CANDIDA BARBATO
Senior sustainability professional with more than 20 year global experience working with NGOs, governments, consultancies, and businesses to develop sustainability strategies in food and agriculture supply chains to ensure positive social and environmental impact. Demonstrable track record in leading cross-functional, international teams to design and implement high-impact programs that deliver positive change for workers, communities and the environment whilst mitigating risk and improving access to market for producers. Skilled in facilitating stakeholder collaboration / engagement / partnerships and in building local teams and supplier capacity to implement good human rights and environmental practises. Hands on field experience in UK, Italy, Mexico, US, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Spain, Portugal, Peru, India and Thailand among others. Fluent in English, Italian, Spanish and conversational in French. Candida shaped the design of Driscoll\'s Award-Winning social compliance programme and played a crucial role in its implementation. She was instrumental in supporting the development of the Mexican agriculture industry collaboration platform AHIFORES (Alianza Hortofrutícola Internacional para el Fomento de la Responsabilidad Social).At ETI she facilitated numerous successful collaborations including the Better Strawberries Working Group in collaboration with Oxfam in Morocco and led the development, fundraising and roll out of the supervisor training program in the agriculture sector in Kenya and South Africa in collaboration with Partner Africa (former Africa Now) and other local organisations.Key areas of expertise include Sustainability Strategy development, planning, execution and reporting (major reporting frameworks such as CSRD, CDG, Ecovadis, etc), Human Rights and Environmental Due diligence, multi-stakeholder engagement and facilitation, Ethical Trade & Modern Slavery, Community Development and Impact reporting, Regenerative proctice applied to intensive agriculture, Social and environmental Certifications (LEAF, GRSP, SMETA, BCorp).
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