John Tran

Sustainability & Social Impact at Vita Coco

New York City Metropolitan Area

About

Sustainability Professional

Experience

  • Vita Coco (5 yrs 3 mos)
    • VP, Social Impact & Sustainability
      Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Sustainability & Social Impact
      Apr 2021 - Feb 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Executive Director at Vita Coco Community Foundation
    Apr 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • Director, Sustainability & Responsibility at Pernod Ricard
    Sep 2017 - Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 8 mos

  • Sustainable Living Manager at Unilever
    Oct 2015 - Sep 2017 · 2 yrs

  • Campbell Soup Company (2 yrs 8 mos)
    • Procurement CSR & Sustainability Lead
      Apr 2014 - Oct 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Analytical & Performance Management • Collaborate with cross-functional partners and CSR Program Office to manage supply chain metrics on vendor performance, procurement spend, and category volume management • Sustainability savings projects across direct raw material spend; packaging reduction / lightweighting initiatives • Created sustainability scorecard program to measure and analyze supplier risk associated with CSR issues • Database and tracking manager of company performance against public commitments on sustainability metrics • Developed category risk mapping tools that assess situations and made recommendations on key opportunities in high risk supply chains, particularly human rights and sustainable agriculture • Procurement financial analyst that assesses supply chain impact from innovation projects (e.g. non-GMO conversion, NGO engagement, BPA non-intent, sustainable raw materials, etc.), Program & Process Management • Consumer & Customer Ready Response Team on Food Transparency (Sourcing): http://www.whatsinmyfood.com/ • Sourcing lead on stakeholder inquiries on sustainability, sourcing, and product transparency, • Thought leader and lead developer of Campbell’s first Global Procurement Sustainability Strategy • Lead sustainability efforts of Campbell Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) Program • Responsible for sustainability emerging supply chain issues management (conflict minerals, palm oil, deforestation, GMOs, human rights, sustainable ag, conflict sourcing) • Converting metrics and quantitative value to once unmeasured processes (Supplier Diversity, Supplier Risk Mapping, Supplier Scorecard) • Management of non-government organizations Strategy Implementation • Editor-in-Chief & Program Manager of Global Procurement Newsletter • Directly report updates to VP and C-level management;

    • Sustainability Procurement Sr. Analyst
      Mar 2013 - Apr 2014 · 1 yr 2 mos

      • Maintained performance management data of supplier performance, including quality, service, and overall spend per category; • Prepared supply chain performance report, utilizing key financial data metrics • Collaborated with global, cross functional business partners to report public data to key stakeholders • Created supply chain innovation process that categorizes and assess emerging value chain risks