Senior Manager Circular Economy - Climate Action Team - Remote

 

 

Job ID:  484395
 

CRH is a leading global diversified building materials group, employing over 75,800 people at more than 3,160 locations in 29 countries. CRH is the leading building materials company in North America and the world. We manufacture and distribute a diverse range of superior building materials, products, and solutions, which are used extensively in construction projects of all sizes. 

 

 

SENIOR MANAGER CIRCULAR ECONOMY - CLIMATE ACTION TEAM

 

 

This role reports into the Senior Vice President Climate Action & Sustainable Construction.

 

Sustainability is the business opportunity for CRH to really accelerate and activate the OneCRH approach, realize its full potential, and reinvent the way our world is built.

This role, Circular Economy Senior Manager, will lead CRH´s corporate approach on Circular Economy, will create a global strategy to develop and implement a circular economy framework, including vision, goals, targets and KPIs. They will lead the implementation of relevant programmes to ensure the business meets the needs of investors, ESG rating agencies, associations commitments & other stakeholders.

To accomplish this, the role will support the business with expert knowledge on regulations and standards which will help accelerate the portfolio evolution required to realize CRH´s sustainability targets.

They will represent the business and influences external initiatives and associations on Circular Economy, keeping the business informed of developments & good practices.

 

 

KEY GLOBAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

 

• Establish clear circularity strategies and targets positioning CRH as the industry leader in circular economy and waste management.
• Support the development of the overall circular economy roadmap for CRH to achieve relevant sustainability targets and external commitments. This includes an overall governance model for circularity, recycling and waste for CRH.
• Coordinate and align circular economy roadmap to achieve the targets and accelerate targets, if needed.
• Develop “strategic scenarios” and simulations to provoke future thinking as input into risk and business planning processes, including stress test to assess on emerging trends.
• Align circular economy targets with business strategy as part of CRH portfolio review and value creation through circular business.
• Linked with this, lead the definition of group strategy for “waste to value” supporting business to create value around waste use.
• Establish partnerships with other industries to achieve circular economy goals.
• Lead external engagement of CRH for circular economy.
• Suggest matter expertise and best practice sharing in circular economy.
• Focused communication internal & externally about circular economy. Create the narrative around circular economy supporting the sustainability reporting team.
• Identify and promote actions to achieve the necessary changes in regulations to promote the use of recycling materials across the construction value chain.
• Provide education and training via internal leaders and with external support.
• Align public policy and industrial positioning about circular economy.
• Embed innovation and venturing as enablers to deliver CRH´s circular economy ambition. Be part of the decision of projects aligned with the topic.
• Projects and responsibilities will be varied and continue to evolve over time as new business needs emerge.

 

 

KEY NEAR TERMS DELIVERABLES

 

Circular economy – Framework and Strategy

 

• Develop a deep dive analysis of CRH current position on waste management and circular economy with external support.
• Develop at company level circular economy framework including vision, targets, KPIs and governance model in collaboration with the business. Consolidate this framework with current initiatives on decarbonization, in collaboration with Senior Program Manager Decarbonisation.
• Start aligning circular economy targets with business strategy as part of value creation initiatives: “waste to value” approach.
• Initiative an evaluation of potential strategic partners to implement circular economy framework along the value chain.
• Create a community of practice to implement the developed circular economy framework.
• Develop a list of key external organizations to prepare external engagement strategy for circular economy.
• Connect products with recycling attributes with others, like low carbon content, to build and commercialize new sustainable solutions, in collaboration with VP Sustainable Construction.
• Support innovation and venturing defining and delivering p