Senior Vice President, Sustainability

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Job Purpose and Impact

The Senior Vice President, Sustainability provides enterprise leadership to advance the company’s sustainability direction. The role brings a strong customer‑ and market‑informed perspective to ensure sustainability commitments, standards, and actions are credible, defensible, and aligned with how customers assess trust, risk, and long‑term value. Working across businesses, functions, and regions, this leader integrates sustainability expectations into operations, sourcing, products, and decision‑making, strengthening the company’s ability to meet evolving requirements while supporting responsible growth.

Enterprise Sustainability Leadership (Customer Informed Focus)

• Provide senior leadership for the company’s sustainability strategy, ensuring it reflects evolving customer expectations, global market signals, and emerging sustainability‑related regulatory trends.
• Enable long‑term sustainability priorities and partner with enterprise leaders to shape enterprise direction, ensuring initiatives support trust, transparency, and long‑term value creation.
• Partner with the business in identifying new sustainability‑driven value opportunities, including advanced low‑carbon pathways and future‑focused capabilities.

Customer & Market Integration

• Translate customer sustainability priorities into scalable enterprise standards that inform products, sourcing, operations, and long‑term planning.
• Align sustainability commitments and statements to customer‑driven needs, ensuring defensibility, clarity, and consistency across businesses and regions.
• Maintain strong external awareness of sustainability expectations to help the organization anticipate and respond to market and customer shifts.

Sustainability Compliance & Risk Enablement

• Oversee sustainability‑related compliance expectations across businesses, ensuring protocols strengthen customer trust and support responsible growth.
• Establish alignment between sustainability commitments and considerations, compliance requirements, and enterprise risk frameworks.
• Partner with legal, policy, and risk teams to help ensure credibility and defensibility of sustainability claims, standards, and practices across the company.

Carbon & Environmental Data, Analytics & Transparency

• Lead the development of AI-enabled data and analytics  foundations to power credible sustainability reporting,  performance tracking, and customer-required metrics.
• Ensure sustainability data is AI-ready – high quality, consistent, and structured to support advanced modeling, automation, and meet customer, market, and regulatory expectations.
• Build and scale AI-driven transparency frameworks that enable dynamic measurement, validation and delivery of environmental attributes and metrics across the value chain.

Business Integration & Enterprise Execution

• Partner with supply chain, operations, procurement, and commercial teams to embed sustainability standards and expectations into business processes and decision‑making.
• Support businesses in operationalizing sustainability requirements in a way that is feasible, scalable, and aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Lead cross‑enterprise initiatives designed to increase consistency, reduce operational risk, and strengthen sustainability integration across regions and product lines.

External Engagement & Sustainability Representation

• Engage with priority customers, partners, and value‑chain stakeholders to strengthen trust and demonstrate the company’s sustainability positioning.
• Participate in relevant external forums or industry groups to represent the company’s sustainability direction and learn from broader market developments.
• Gather insights from external stakeholders and translate them into enterprise‑relevant sustainability strategies and expectations.

Leadership, Talent Development & Organizational Capability

• Lead and develop high‑performing sustainability teams, fostering deep expertise in environmental data, standards, operational integra