Director, Environmental Sustainability

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Your role at Clorox:

The Director Environmental Sustainability is an expert-level sustainability role responsible for translating Clorox’s global Environmental Sustainability strategy into business-integrated plans, capabilities, and results. The role will lead cross-functional integration across R&D, Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, Legal, and business units to advance SBTi, packaging sustainability, regulatory readiness, and decarbonization priorities while optimizing cost, managing risk, and enabling business value. A significant portion of the role will focus on embedding carbon accounting, material carbon footprint insights, supplier engagement, and packaging regulatory compliance planning into core business processes, including participation in the cross-functional group managing EPR and other packaging regulations. The ideal candidate brings deep technical expertise in GHG accounting, Scope 3 emissions, carbon footprints of materials and packaging, plastics and packaging regulations, and sustainability reporting, combined with the executive presence and thought leadership needed to advise senior leaders and represent sustainability priorities with internal and external stakeholders.

In this role, you will:

Strategy Integration & Enterprise Leadership

• Lead the integration of Clorox’s environmental sustainability strategy into business unit priorities, functional roadmaps, governance routines, and investment decisions.
• Partner with R&D, Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, and business units to develop and guide execution of cost-optimized roadmaps that advance SBTi, packaging, and related environmental goals.
• Serve as a senior strategic advisor and thought leader, translating emerging sustainability trends, EPR and packaging regulations, technologies, and market expectations into actionable recommendations for the business.
• Lead periodic strategic reviews of climate, packaging, and broader environmental plans to ensure goals, KPIs, governance, and management approaches remain fit-for-purpose and results-oriented.
• Participate in the cross-functional group responsible for managing EPR and other packaging regulations, helping translate regulatory requirements into enterprise priorities, governance needs, and execution plans.
• Prepare and present clear executive-level updates, scorecards, recommendations, and decision materials for senior leadership and other governance forums.

Carbon Accounting, Materials Footprinting & Performance Management

• Provide technical leadership and oversight for enterprise GHG accounting, including Scope 1, 2, and 3 inventories, methodology decisions, baselining, data quality, process management, and audit readiness.
• Apply expertise in material carbon footprints, packaging, ingredients, commodities, and supplier data to identify emissions hotspots and inform business unit decarbonization strategies.
• Oversee measurement and reporting for key environmental metrics, including energy, water, waste, renewable energy and GHG emissions.
• Provide technical oversight for environmental sustainability disclosures and assurance processes, including relevant content for the Annual Report and CDP.
• Build compliance plans for EPR and other packaging regulations, including requirements assessment, data needs, cross-functional owners, implementation timelines, reporting obligations, and risk mitigation actions.
• Monitor evolving carbon accounting standards, climate regulations, customer expectations, and industry best practices to ensure Clorox’s methodologies, systems, and reporting remain credible and future-ready.

Business Unit Enablement & Supplier Engagement

• Build the tools, training, and operating mechanisms needed to embed carbon reduction and packaging sustainability into business unit planning, product innovation, sourcing, and decision-making.
• Provide leadership, guidance, and technical support to business unit sustainability partners, including development of carbon reduction guidance and practical playbooks for functional teams.
• Partner with Procurement to strengthen the Clorox Climate Partners supplier engagement program.

Executive Communication & External Thought Leadership

• Translate complex technical sustainabi