APPRENTICESHIP : Sustainability Climate Apprentice

Sodexo is a global leader in sustainable food and valued experiences with annual revenues of €21.1 billion and more than 430,000 employees operating in 43 countries.

Sodexo is a family business founded by Pierre Bellon in 1966 and now managed by his daughter Sophie Bellon, who is Chairwoman and CEO.

We serve 80 million consumers each day with an integrated offering developed over more than 50 years of experience: from food services, reception, maintenance and cleaning to facilities and equipment management.

Sodexo has two primary activities to support its client and consumer meet the chammenges of every day life: Food and Facilities Management Services.

• Food Services: For nearly 60 years, Sodexo has applied its expertise to offer healthy, balanced, varied meals every day, inspired by the latest culinary trends. In addition to traditional on-site food services, our teams develop customized solutions adapted to each environment to meet our clients’ and consumers’ needs and expectations.
• Facilities Management: Sodexo is recognized for its expertise in Facilities Management (FM) which combines reception, hospitality and cleaning services (soft FM) and infrastructure maintenance services (hard FM) and aims to meet our clients’ needs, while ensuring user comfort, safety and well-being.

Through these services, Sodexo has a dual goal: to improve the quality of life of our employees and those we serve, and contribute to the economic, social and environmental progress in the communities where we operate. For Sodexo, growth and social commitment go hand in hand.

Sodexo promotes the fulfilment of our employees and contributes to the economic, social and environmental development of the communities with which we work.

Our recruitment teams are trained in recruitment without discrimination, including people with disabilities. Our managers are also made aware of these issues and are our first ambassadors on these subjects.

You will work at the head office of the Sodexo group, located in Issy-Les-Moulineaux, accessible from Paris by RER C, Tram T2 from La Défense and Porte de Versailles or metro line 12.

CONTEXT

APPRENTICESHIP POSITION AVAILABLE BETWEEN JANUARY AND MARCH 2026

Transforming the global economy to address the global climate emergency is one of the most urgent issues of our time. The Sustainability team’s role is to ensure that Sodexo is contributing to this challenge to the greatest extent possible. As a food service company, this means supporting the transition to a sustainable food system.

Sodexo’s ambition is to be the world leader in sustainable food and valued experiences at every moment in life: learn, work, heal and play.

Being a sustainability market maker is one of the two pillars of Sodexo’s corporate strategy and personally supported by our CEO and President of the Board, Sophie Bellon.

Having a positive impact on the planet and people is at the core of Sodexo’s business; we are committed to encouraging our guests to develop good eating habits and healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

Sodexo has taken the commitment to reach Net-Zero by 2040, with interim goals at 2025 and 2030, following the Science-Based Target initiative guidelines.

To achieve this commitment, Sodexo has defined four priority actions:

1. Promoting sustainable and low-carbon recipes

2. Sourcing Responsibly

3. Preventing Food Waste

4. Providing responsible on-site energy management solutions

The climate team, which you will be a part of, is in charge of driving this ambition, by bringing expertise and recommendations to the business.

MISSIONS

You will be supporting the team in the ongoing definition and deployment of Sodexo’s Climate strategy, including climate action planning, measurements and reporting processes.

You will work on several projects that can support clients and internal teams such as supply management, learning & development, communication. You will also support local and regional teams to create and operate their own roadmaps of reduction.

Your missions will be:

• Support the annual data collection processes on climate-related topics (Scope 1, 2 and 3 and other metrics),
• Contribute to the climate-related communication, both internally and externally
• Support climate-related trainings and awareness campaigns internally
• Manage development of Sodexo Climate Trajectory and Action Planning tool and support Sodexo local entities to create and prioritise actions plans to achieve our 2025, 2030 and 2040 commitments
• Coordinate responses to ESG rating agencies, including CDP Climate Change
• Improve processes of reporting to investors and clients on Climate Change

You will be working closely with other members of the CSR communities within the different countries where Sodexo operate, as well as key internal stakeholders at group level.

WHY SODEXO ?

• You will be integrated into the life of the team
• You will attend all coordination meetings and you will thus have an overview of the activity of a Group CSR team
• You participate in rich and empowering missions, in an international environment
• Sodexo offers you training adapted to your needs, in particular to develop your skills
• Restaurant pass, partial reimbursement of transport tickets

PROFILE

• Current student pursuing a master’s degree in Sustainability, Climate science, Environmental science or similar
• Fluent in English (spoken and written). French skills a plus
• Passionate about building a sustainable and equitable world. Mission-driven and committed to positive change while being pragmatic, with solid business understanding
• A multidimentional analytical thinker with the ability to ask the right questions from a variety of perspectives and to interrogate the options
• Knowledge in Climate Impacts and/or Carbon emissions is a plus