Director, Corporate Sustainability Governance & Disclosure

As the largest pureplay adhesives company in the world, H.B. Fuller’s (NYSE: FUL) innovative, functional coatings, adhesives and sealants enhance the quality, safety and performance of products people use every day. Founded in 1887, with 2024 revenue of $3.6 billion, our mission to Connect What Matters is brought to life by more than 7,500 global team members who collaborate with customers across more than 30 market segments in over 140 countries to develop highly specified solutions that enable customers to bring world-changing innovations to their end markets. Learn more at www.hbfuller.com.

Director, Corporate Sustainability Governance, Disclosure & Engagement

Position Summary

The Director, Corporate Sustainability Governance & Disclosure, is the enterprise-wide leader accountable for the governance, accuracy, and integrity of the Company’s sustainability disclosures globally. This role owns the design, implementation and enterprise governance of product-level sustainability documentation and disclosures, including but not limited to Product Lifecycle Assessments (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint analysis (PCF), ensuring consistency, auditability, and regulatory alignment across the global product portfolio and value chain.

In addition, this role leads sustainability governance frameworks, disclosure controls, and regulatory reporting in alignment with U.S. SEC climate rules, EU CSRD / ESRS requirements, ISSB / IFRS Sustainability Standards, and other applicable global sustainability-related financial disclosure regulations. This will include understanding and tracking changes to all regulatory requirements, benchmarking with industry and local peers and overseeing the data collection process by developing a control structure around the processes to ensure data is complete, accurate and auditable. In addition, this role will partner with consultants and auditors as needed.

Key Responsibilities

Sustainability Governance & Oversight

• Establish and maintain the Company’s global sustainability-related financial disclosure governance framework, including policies, procedures, controls, and accountability structures.

• Serve as the management owner for sustainability and sustainability-related financial disclosure governance, including escalation, review, and approval processes.

• Coordinate sustainability disclosure oversight activities with and prepare periodic report outs to Executive Leadership, Sustainability Committee, Finance Leadership, and the Audit Committee.

Regulatory Disclosure & Financial Alignment

• Lead enterprise-wide compliance with sustainability-related disclosure requirements, including:

  • SEC climate-related disclosure rules, including financial statement impacts, capitalized costs, expenditures, and assumptions related to climate risks

  • State reporting requirements, including California SB 261 and SB 253 compliance

  • EU CSRD and ESRS, including financially material impacts, risks, and opportunities (IROs)

  • ISSB / IFRS S1 and S2, including connectivity between sustainability and financial information

• Ensure sustainability disclosures are fully aligned with financial reporting under U.S. GAAP and IFRS, as applicable.

• Oversee governance for identifying, assessing, and disclosing climate- and sustainability-related financial risks and opportunities

• Ensure consistency between sustainability disclosures and financial filings (e.g., Form 10-K, 20-F, annual report) under established disclosure controls and procedures.

Product Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) & Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)

• Lead the development, governance, and global implementation of standardized methodologies for Product Lifecycle Assessment (LCA) & Product Carbon Footprint (PCF)

• Ensure methodologies align with recognized standards (ISO 14040/44, ISO 14067, GHG Protocol Product Standard) and evolving regulatory and customer requirements.

• Establish governance, controls, and documentation supporting the financial and operational use of product-level sustainability data.

• Ensure alignment between product-level emissions data and enterprise Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions disclosures and related financial impacts.

Reporting, Controls & Assurance

• Design and maintain sustainability disclosure controls and procedures (SDCPs), including controls over financially related sustainability information.