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Director, Performance & Data Strategy
Acre is excited to be partnering with Thai Union in their search for a Director, Performance & Data Strategy.
About Thai Union
Thai Union Group PCL is one of the world's leading seafood companies, headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand, and listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. With annual revenues exceeding USD 4 billion and operations spanning more than 10,000 employees across Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond, Thai Union brings seafood to consumers in over 100 countries under iconic brands including John West, Chicken of the Sea, Petit Navire, Mareblu, and King Oscar.
Thai Union's ambition is to be the world's most trusted seafood company — trusted by customers, consumers, investors, communities, and the ocean. This ambition is brought to life through SeaChange®, Thai Union's sustainability strategy, which sets out the Group's commitments across healthy oceans, thriving communities, and a responsible business. SeaChange® 2030 builds on over a decade of sustainability leadership and represents Thai Union's most ambitious environmental and social commitments to date.
Thai Union has been consistently recognised as a global leader in sustainability, ranked among the world's most sustainable companies by MSCI, S&P Global, FTSE Russell, and the World Benchmarking Alliance. The company is a founding member of the Global Tuna Alliance, a signatory to the UN Global Compact, and an active participant in leading pre-competitive sustainability initiatives across the seafood industry.
SeaChange® 2030
SeaChange® is Thai Union's integrated sustainability strategy and the framework through which the Group delivers on its purpose. SeaChange® 2030 focuses on three interconnected pillars:
- Healthy Oceans — responsible fisheries, responsible aquaculture, biodiversity and ecosystem protection, and ocean plastics and packaging circularity.
- Thriving People — worker welfare across supply chains, community development, and advancing human rights.
- Responsible Business — climate and decarbonisation, governance, transparency, and sustainable financing.
The Sustainability & Communications function leads the development, governance, and delivery of SeaChange® commitments across Thai Union's global operations, business units, and supply chains. The Senior Director, Environmental Impact and the Director, Performance & Data Strategy are both direct reports to the Chief Sustainability & Communications Officer and play central roles in the Group's sustainability leadership.
The Opportunity
As sustainability reporting and disclosure requirements intensify globally — driven by CSRD, ISSB, SEC climate rules, and growing investor and customer scrutiny — the ability to measure, report, and assure sustainability performance has never been more commercially and reputationally critical. Thai Union is looking for a Director to own this agenda at the enterprise level.
The Director, Sustainability Performance & Data Strategy serves as the enterprise owner of sustainability intelligence for Thai Union. The role leads performance monitoring against SeaChange® 2030 commitments, oversees ESG reporting and assurance across all major frameworks and ratings, and drives the transformation of sustainability data through automation, AI, and end-to-end traceability systems.
This is a role for a leader who combines rigorous analytical capability with the commercial acumen to translate sustainability data into strategic insight — and the organisational credibility to drive alignment across Finance, Digital, Operations, Investor Relations, Legal, and Procurement in a genuinely complex global business.
Key Responsibilities
1. Sustainability Performance Management
- Own the Group sustainability performance framework, including KPIs, targets, scorecards, and reporting mechanisms across all Business Units.
- Monitor progress against SeaChange® 2030 commitments and identify performance risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities.
- Deliver executive-level dashboards, insights, and performance reviews to support management, Sustainability Committee, and Board decision-making.
- Drive corrective action plans and continuous improvement initiatives to improve sustainability outcomes across the Group.
2. ESG Reporting, Assurance & Compliance
- Lead all sustainability reporting and disclosures, ensuring compliance with regulatory, investor, customer, and other stakeholder requirements.
- Establish robust ESG controls, governance processes, evidence management systems, and assurance readiness across the organisation.
- Monitor emerging sustainability regulations, frameworks, and disclosure standards and assess business impacts and readiness requirements.
- Serve as the central point of coordination for external assurance, ESG audits, investor inquiries, customer disclosures, and sustainability reporting obligations.
3. ESG Ratings, Benchmarking & Market Intelligence
- Lead engagement with ESG ratings agencies, benchmark providers, investors, NGOs, and customers.
- Own performance and submissions for key assessments including S&P Global, MSCI, FAIRR, World Benchmarking Alliance, CDP, EcoVadis, and FTSE Russell.
- Conduct peer benchmarking, gap assessments, and trend analysis to identify opportunities for performance improvement and reputation enhancement.
- Provide forward-looking intelligence on investor expectations, ESG trends, and sustainability risks that may impact Thai Union's competitiveness and reputation.
4. ESG Data Strategy & Digital Transformation
- Define and execute the enterprise ESG data strategy, ensuring high-quality, auditable, and integrated sustainability data across the Group.
- Lead automation and digitalisation of sustainability reporting, performance management, and disclosure processes.
- Partner with Digital and IT teams to develop scalable ESG data platforms, reporting ecosystems, and management dashboards.
- Deploy AI and advanced analytics capabilities that improve data collection, validation, forecasting, insight generation, and decision support.
5. Traceability, Transparency & Sustainability Data Integration
- Define and lead Thai Union's global traceability roadmap and transparency strategy across priority supply chains.
- Ensure sustainability data is integrated across sourcing, supplier, operational, and customer systems to provide end-to-end visibility and transparency.
- Drive deployment of digital traceability platforms and technologies that strengthen sustainability performance, transparency, and stakeholder trust.
6. Sustainability Governance & Enterprise Integration
- Embed sustainability performance management into business planning, strategy development, operational reviews, and investment decisions.
- Establish governance frameworks and accountability mechanisms that support delivery of sustainability commitments across the Group.
- Drive alignment across Sustainability, Finance, Procurement, Operations, Digital, Investor Relations, Legal, and Communications functions.
- Act as the enterprise integrator connecting sustainability strategy, performance, reporting, ratings, data, and business execution.
Candidate Profile
Thai Union is seeking a technically rigorous, commercially astute sustainability leader with the credibility and drive to transform how a world-leading seafood company measures and manages its sustainability performance. The ideal candidate will bring:
Experience & Expertise
- 12 or more years of experience in sustainability, ESG reporting, sustainability performance management, data governance, risk, finance, consulting, or related disciplines.
- Demonstrated expertise in sustainability disclosure frameworks, ESG ratings, external assurance, and regulatory reporting requirements.
- Proven experience leading enterprise data transformation, system implementation, automation, or digital innovation programmes.
- Strong understanding of ESG data architecture, governance, analytics, AI applications, and business intelligence solutions.
- Experience influencing senior executives and leading complex cross-functional initiatives in multinational organisations.
- Experience with supply chain transparency, traceability systems, or sustainability technology platforms preferred.
To register your interest or request further information, please contact Greg Brittian at greg.brittian@acre.com. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are committed to a fair, transparent, and inclusive selection process.
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Spotlight
Our Most Valuable Resource Isn't in the Ground
At 3:30pm on November 5, 2015, a tailings dam near Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil began to leak. The Fundão Dam, operated by Samarco and built to store waste from the Germano iron ore mine, sat in the hills above the village of Bento Rodrigues. By 4:20pm, the leak had become a catastrophic rupture.
>> Read the full piece here
An estimated 43.7 million cubic metres of mine tailings surged into the Doce River. The toxic sludge engulfed Bento Rodrigues and Paracatu de Baixo, killing 19 people, displacing thousands, and contaminating hundreds of kilometres of waterways before reaching the Atlantic Ocean. It remains Brazil’s worst environmental disaster. The social, environmental, and economic impacts are still being felt and will likely persist for generations.
Four years later, the Brumadinho tailings dam disaster, also in Brazil, caused by the sudden collapse of an iron ore waste dam, killed 270 people. At precisely the moment when minerals were becoming central to the global energy transition, mining found itself in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons.
The industry response was significant.
In 2020, the Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) was launched by the International Council on Mining and Metals, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the Principles for Responsible Investment. It introduced a globally recognised framework built on zero harm, board-level accountability, independent oversight, transparent disclosure, and planning for worst-case failure scenarios.
Alongside this, the Mining Association of Canada’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) standard has also become a widely adopted industry framework over the last 20 years, focusing on continuous performance improvement across environmental and social responsibility, including tailings management, community engagement, and site-level accountability.
Across the sector, leadership teams have started to rethink and reshape their relationship with the land, communities, investors, and employees.
But standards and frameworks alone do not create responsible mining. People do.
>> Read the full piece here
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