North America Product Sustainability Senior Manager

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At Graphic Packaging International, we produce the paper cup that held your coffee this morning, the basket that transported those bottles of craft beer you enjoyed last weekend, and the microwave tray that heated your gourmet meal last night. We’re one of the largest manufacturers of paperboard and paper-based packaging for some of the world’s most recognized brands of food, beverage, foodservice, household, personal care and pet products. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, we are collaborative, diverse, innovative individuals who create inspired packaging while giving back to our communities. 

 

With over 25,000 employees working in more than 130 locations worldwide, we strive to be environmentally responsible in our industry and in the communities where we operate. We are committed to workplace diversity and offer compensation and benefits programs that are among the industry’s best to reward the talented people who make our company successful.

 

If this sounds like something you would like to be a part of, we’d love to hear from you.

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The North America Product Sustainability Senior Manager is responsible for supporting product sustainability initiatives in the Americas region and Graphic Packaging’s corporate sustainability strategy to create competitive advantage for our packaging solutions and generate business results.  S/he will work closely with the Americas commercial teams, the Europe Product Sustainability Manager, regional sustainability resources, and the corporate sustainability team to ensure plans for product development, commercial launch, and organic sales growth are connected, cohesive, and supported by credible sustainability messaging.  S/he will serve as a sustainability resource to the sales and innovation teams - supporting customer initiatives, consulting on customer sustainability matters, and engaging with customers and other external stakeholder groups.

 

A results-oriented, collaborative, and diplomatic problem solver, the North America Product Sustainability Senior Manager thrives in a fast-paced and rapidly changing environment. S/he monitors evolving policy and regulations, voluntary industry initiatives, competitive threats, and customer/consumer packaging preferences, making recommendations, and driving projects to continually strengthen our product position.  S/he is a skilled communicator who develops strong relationships and concisely conveys complex data, insights, and product sustainability attributes to a wide variety of internal and external stakeholder audiences.  This position requires the ability to work independently and the initiative and drive to achieve goals and business results.  Job duties will primarily be executed at the tactical level, with some strategic input and formulation.

 

 

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Partner with Americas commercial teams and EU Product Sustainability manager to define, develop, and lead strategic initiatives to expand and/or defend GPI product sustainability and market positions and develop required data to support product sustainability claims.

• Partner with the product innovation team to further integrate design for the environment principles in the innovation process (including raw material selection and qualification), improve the environmental profile of GPI packaging solutions, and develop data-based sustainability proof points in advance of product commercialization.
• Focal point for environmental assessments/modeling of GPI packaging products and competing materials, including life-cycle assessments, circularity analyses, and other product evaluations.  Leverage results from assessments to inform packaging design and material selection to provide competitive advantage.  Develop KPIs, dashboards and visual communication tools for product sustainability performance evaluation.

• Subject matter expert for Americas sales teams and customers on GPI product sustainability questions and corporate sustainability program.  Support commercial teams with customer sustainability conversations and provide sustainability consulting advice to customers as applicable to advance shared sustainability goals.
• Partner with the Sustainability Communications Manager to develop and conduct training to increase Americas commercial team knowledge and comfort in communicating corporate and product sustainability performance with customers and support addressing customer requests for product sustainability information.

• Monitor external environment to identify emerging product sustainability t