Envirium Life Sciences (ELS) is a green industrial group, headquartered Belgium, Europe, specializing in the production, processing, and supply of natural products for the food, beverage, cosmetics, and healthcare industries. Its portfolio includes cocoa, vanilla, green pepper, coffee, chia seeds, and other natural raw materials.
The team is united around strong values of sustainability, traceability, biodiversity, and close collaboration with smallholder farmers. Experiencing strong global growth, the group continues to expand through ambitious projects worldwide. For more information, please visit: www.envirium.be
To support the growth of Envirium Life Sciences, we are recruiting a Certifications and Grants Manager (M/F/X) to join their operations in Mauritius, with frequent international travels.
Responsibilities
As a Certifications & Grants Manager, you ensure the operational sustainability and compliance of the group across multiple international subsidiaries.
Act as a key interface between field operations, certifications, and ESG strategy.
Contribute to the development of impact-driven and fundable projects (climate, biodiversity, smallholder farmers).
Your main responsibilities are:
- Lead and secure certifications (RFA, Organic, Fairtrade, BSCI, EcoVadis, SBTi) and manage field audits.
- Ensure compliance across international subsidiaries and strengthen traceability & internal control systems.
- Translate certification requirements into concrete operational practices with sourcing, production, and ESG teams.
- Implement group standards, harmonize practices, and deploy field-oriented tools.
- Identify funding opportunities for to the development of impact-driven projects.
- Provide technical input for grant applications.
- Support impact measurement and reporting.
- Train, support, and empower local teams, ensuring strong field presence.
Profile
- 5–10 years’ experience in certifications and grants, ideally in the agri-food industry.
- Strong knowledge of certification standards : RFA, Organic, Fairtrade, etc.
- Good understanding of agricultural supply chains.
- Solid understanding of ESG topics : climate, biodiversity, traceability.
- Ability to structure projects and translate field realities into fundable impact.
- Experience in international and multicultural environments (Africa / Asia preferred).
- Strong coordination and leadership skills. Proactive, ethic and team player.
- Field-oriented, pragmatic, and autonomous, able to navigate between operations and strategy with strong interpersonal skills.
- Languages: Fluent in English and French. Swahili is a plus.
Offer
- A key and diversified impactful role working with the Executive team and operations.
- The opportunity to shape and influence the Envirium’ strategy of the company.
- Career growth opportunities within an ethical, ambitious and growing organization.
- A dynamic and collaborative work environment.
- A competitive salary and benefits package.
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