Belgium
As a Senior Sustainability Specialist at Toyota Motor Europe, work focuses on advancing human rights due diligence and compliance within the automotive industry. The role emphasizes policy diffusion, governance realignment, and stakeholder engagement to align with European directives. Key areas of expertise include public policy, policy development, and human rights due diligence. With a background in human rights policy and extensive experience in international operations, contributions center on integrating sustainability and accountability into corporate frameworks. Current efforts include enhancing grievance mechanisms and embedding standards such as the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and EU Battery Regulation to achieve meaningful, long-term impact.
The expectations of the role: Continue to progress the respect for Human rights across the Toyota's European Operations by enhancing the following mechanisms: - Realigning Structure and Governance for human rights. - Human Rights Policy Diffusion across all relevant areas of the business - Enhancement of the Due diligence process in alignment with core European Directives. - Continue to build and engage new Stakeholders. - Incorporate compliance for European regulations that impact the automotive industry. - Enhance the Grievance mechanisms
Managed Company wide projects for Human Resources
The role oversaw the following functions: - Coordinating the antennae or scanning function. - Progressing Frameworks and policy for embedding Human Rights - Coordinating and conducting training at regional headquarters in order to build capacity. - Diffusing Human rights key principles into existing operational policy.
Organisational Development: The role included the following functions: - Talent pipeline development - Resourcing technology like Success Factors to compliment talent development - Enhancing our objective talent profiling mechanisms - Strategically planning for succession that fits into the strategic imperatives of the company.
This role included the following: - Facilities and Equipment project engineer primarily in charge of delivering a new paint plant. - This included Equipment design and development for the Top coat plant. - Intensive project management which included managing over 200 contractors on site for 2 years. - Key focus on health and safety which was built into the design as well as being a core them for installation and commissioning.
Key tasks, responsibilities and capabilities: - Driving key improvement projects effectively within allocated budget and timings - Technical Field Support in FMCG environment including personal, beauty and home care sectors. - Technical support and problem solving of raw material performance and factory process optimisation projects - New Product Development & Sourcing.