Senior Group Director, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility

Company Description

Ramboll has launched an ambitious strategy; "The Partner for Sustainable Change". Building on Ramboll’s purpose and strong sustainable offering, the strategy aims to go all in on sustainability by orienting our entire offering, client base and company presence around four unifying sustainability themes. It means that on all projects Ramboll will offer clients alternative solutions on how to improve the sustainability of their projects and will collaborate very closely with clients and partners to bring the best of Ramboll’s sustainability insight, innovation power and design excellence. Ramboll will focus on four sustainability themes, where societal and client needs intersect with Ramboll’s expertise: decarbonisation, urban resilience and liveability, resource management and circularity, and biodiversity. In each of the four themes, Ramboll intends to be a global leader, and in the green energy transition the ambition is to become the global industry leader.

We are now looking for a Senior Group Director, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility to lead on the implementation of our strategy acting as the driver of cross-functional and cross-business unit collaboration. You will be a thought leader within Sustainability and act as the voice of Ramboll internally, and externally to stakeholders and the wider market. Your experience in ESG will ensure that we role model in our industry regarding how we act through transparency and disclosure in both our ESG reporting and human rights due diligence. You will build on our strong sustainability commitment in supporting the creation of a Learning Universe to support the development of our people enabling them to support on Ramboll’s strategy as well as strengthening knowledge sharing communities across the organisation.  

Job Description

You will lead our Group Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility function

As our Senior Group Director, Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility, reporting to the Group Executive Board, your team functions as a Centre of Excellence for Sustainability through a network of Sustainability Directors in our 16 business units. You will directly lead a team of 7, responsible for the further development of Ramboll’s position as a responsible corporate citizen and as a leading service provider of sustainable solutions. You will lead the team in designing and delivering upon the activities within the 4 pillars of our commitments:

• Act Responsibly (Corporate Responsibility, Ethics etc.)
• Shape Sustainable Solutions (Project Delivery, tools etc.)
• Engage in Society (advocacy, volunteering, etc.)
• Upskilling all our employees through our Sustainability Learning Universe.

As Ramboll goes all in on sustainability, the role of the Sustainability & CR Director requires extended ability to collaborate and co-create across markets and geographies and relies upon close relations to the Network and other Group functions. The Sustainability & CR function is host and responsible for the Secretariat of Ramboll’s Ethic committee. The Committee discuss and develops guidance for identified and new sustainability dilemmas and ensures that the Ramboll Foundation Legacy is upheld when dilemmas are met. 

Furthermore, the function is also the Secretariat for Ramboll’s social impact programme, Flourish that invites employees across Ramboll to come together and use their skills and expertise to support underserved groups and communities.

Your key tasks and responsibilities will be:

• shaping our ESG roadmap to support Ramboll’s strategy and ensuring compliance with upcoming European legislation.
• providing leadership for our Corporate Climate Action with performance meeting our strategy targets 2025, and our Science Based net zero journey towards 2040 with the aim to go beyond compliance and increasing our impact & leadership on specific climate improvement areas (e.g. Carbon removal program, Water & Waste).
• implementing human rights impact assessments and project level due diligence
• continuously developing sustainability tools and indicators to be integrated into our account management, CRM system and Project Execution Model.
• Driving continued development of Ramboll Sustainability Learning Universe (currently +10.000 active users) targeting sustainability in our projects, and embracing comments and feed-back from the users.
• Maintaining our international sustainability rankings and academic partnerships, as well as Ramboll’s best practice repository supporting our sustainability position in various internal and external materials.
• Ensure that Ramboll is relevant for our most important clients, the value chains and client sectors.
• Ensure implementation of sustainability in project delivery through the Sustainability impact programm