Senior Director, Sustainability Operations

Senior Director, Sustainability Operations

Description -

The Senior Director, Sustainability Operations, will lead HP’s global sustainability execution across climate, carbon, forestry, responsible sourcing, supplier monitoring, and sustainability reporting. The role serves as a central integrator across HP’s value chain, driving strategy, governance, supplier engagement, and disclosure readiness to ensure progress against HP’s 2030 Sustainable Impact Goals and 2040 Net Zero climate ambition. The role balances ambition with execution, ensuring regulatory compliance, market access, and sustained sustainability leadership across HP’s global operations and supply base.

Reporting to the Chief Sustainability Officer, this role leads a team of managers and experts. The position is placed within Enterprise Operations and partners closely with Procurement, Legal, Finance, Product Stewardship, R&D, Business Units, and external stakeholders. The position is a key member of the Global Product Compliance & Sustainable Impact (GPCSI) leadership team and acts as a trusted advisor to senior executives on sustainability risk, performance, and disclosure.

Please note therefore our desired candidates should demonstrate proven successful leadership in these areas, and can share specific real examples in leading company-wide sustainability operations.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Sustainability & Climate Operations

• Lead global teams across climate, carbon reduction, forestry, renewables, life cycle assessment (LCA), and sustainability operations.
• Own development and execution of HP’s end-to-end decarbonization roadmap across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
• Ensure sustainability requirements are embedded into product and service design through NPIs and NSIs.
• Drive cross-functional execution to meet HP’s external climate, deforestation-free, and circularity commitments.

Responsible Sourcing & Supplier Monitoring

• Provide executive leadership for HP’s Responsible Sourcing strategy, including human rights and environmental due diligence across the supply base.
• Oversee supplier sustainability performance, monitoring, and risk mitigation programs in partnership with Procurement and Supply Chain Responsibility teams.
• Ensure supplier alignment with HP requirements related to - Human rights and labor standards, Environmental performance (carbon, water, materials, forestry), Regulatory readiness (e.g., UFLPA, EU Battery Regulation, CSRD, emerging due-diligence regulations)
• Drive supplier capability-building, data quality, and continuous improvement to support HP’s sustainability and market-access commitments.

Sustainability Reporting & Disclosure

• Own governance and execution of HP’s sustainability reporting and disclosure processes, ensuring audit-ready, accurate, and timely reporting.
• Oversee sustainability data systems, metrics, and controls supporting internal management reporting and external disclosures.
• Lead responses to customer, investor, regulatory, and ratings-agency inquiries (e.g., CDP, DJSI, TCFD, SASB, CSRD).
• Partner with Finance, Legal, and Disclosure Committees to ensure alignment across sustainability, financial, and regulatory reporting.

Leadership, Influence & External Engagement

• Lead and develop a global organization of sustainability subject-matter experts.
• Influence executives and senior leaders across HP with clear insights on sustainability risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities.
• Represent HP externally with customers, NGOs, industry consortia, and regulators.
• Maintain HP’s leadership position by anticipating regulatory trends and shaping pre-competitive industry action.

Qualifications & Leadership Attributes:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in sustainability, supply chain operations, responsible sourcing, climate strategy, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated executive-level leadership of enterprise sustainability programs across global value chains.
• Deep expertise in: Climate and carbon management (GHG Protocol, SBTi), Responsible sourcing and supplier due diligence, Sustainability data, controls, and reporting frameworks (CDP, DJSI, TCFD, SASB, CSRD)
• Strong understanding of product life cycles and supplier ecosystems in complex, global industries.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical and regulatory topics into clear business and leadership insights.
• Experience with carbon offsets/credits, developing long-term, high-quality community/forestry pa