Supply Chain Environment & Sustainability (E&S) Due Diligence Program Expert (Roswell, GA.)

Supply Chain Environment & Sustainability (E&S) Due Diligence Program Expert (Roswell, GA.)

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU. 

Position Summary:

The Supply Chain Environment & Sustainability (E&S) Due Diligence Program Expert is accountable for developing, implementing, and advancing Kimberly-Clark’s environment, sustainability and social compliance due diligence strategies across the global supply chain. The role is responsible for identifying and facilitating the management of material product and product and materials sourcing risks related to environmental and sustainability topics. The role provides strategic leadership and subject matter expertise to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, drive supplier and stakeholder engagement, and foster continuous improvement in social and environmental performance. The Program Expert collaborates cross-functionally to align business objectives, manages risk, and supports governance processes, all while building organizational capability and representing the company in external engagements.

In this role, you will:

Program Strategy & Leadership

• Enable and advance Kimberly-Clark’s environment, sustainability and social compliance due diligence strategies by engaging plant operations, suppliers and external stakeholders to create and deploy more sustainable solutions.
• Develop and deploy business processes and controls to manage supplier-related environment and sustainability risks and maintain operational compliance with relevant policies and regulatory requirements.
• Provide strategic subject matter expertise on environment, sustainability and social compliance, including responsible forest management, forest certification, human rights, biodiversity protection, land use, GHG Scope 3 emissions, and local community and indigenous people’s expectations.

Due Diligence and Engagement

• Lead due diligence and engagement activities with plant operations and suppliers to assure compliance and conformance with regulations, standards, customer requirements and company policies.
• Collaborate with suppliers, ENGOs, certifiers, investors, and other stakeholders to catalyze systems change and innovation while addressing customer and consumer expectations.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Responsible for identifying and facilitating the management of material product and materials sourcing risks related to environmental and sustainability topics, such as physical risks due to climate change, deforestation risks, water risks, resource availability and others.
• Monitor and evaluate regulatory standards and company policy requirements (e.g., forced labor regulations, deforestation regulations, Scope 3 GHG emissions reporting), assessing impacts to the company and its suppliers.
• Lead incident response and due diligence activities, including audits, investigations, and remediation planning for critical or major issues (e.g., human rights, forced labor).

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work cross-functionally across a matrixed environment, using leadership, influence, and business acumen to evaluate risks and opportunities and propose appropriate courses of action.
• Collaborate with internal functions such as Ethics & Compliance, Human Resources, Supply Chain, Marketing, Government Relations, and Legal to align on strategic direction and business plans to deliver responsible sourcing goals.

Communications & Reporting

• Guide the development of Kimberly-Clark’s technical and strategic positioning related to sustainable and responsible sourcing.
• Monitor, analyze and report on program progress, compliance rates, closure of major findings and trends.

Program Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Facilitate Responsible Sourcing Governance Committee and provide input on human rights and responsible sourcing policies, standards, disclosures, and mitigation measures.
• Monitor program performance, raise concerns, and review/approve action plans in response to critical incidents.
• Understand emerging responsible sourcing issues and inform enterprise response, including escalation to executive leadership if needed.