Head of Sustainability - Americas

The leadership role entails defining and devising strategies to achieve our 2025 global sustainability goals within the region. It involves adapting the Brambles strategy into a localized Americas sustainability strategy, accelerating the implementation of regional strategic priorities using CHEP's unique ESG credentials. The position will focus on integrating sustainability into our value proposition for key stakeholders - employees, customers, and suppliers - and developing tools to foster progress toward a more collaborative and regenerative supply chain.

Scope: Americas Region - all countries within scope

Major/Key Accountabilities

• Implementing the Brambles Sustainability Regenerative strategy and ensuring accountability for 2025 sustainability targets across the AMERICAS region.
• Fully accountable for the successful implementation of sustainability programs in the region.
• Responsible for defining, developing, and implementing the Americas sustainability value proposition for three stakeholder groups: Customers, Employees, and Shareholders.
• Lead sustainability discussions with the CHEP Americas and Brambles Executive Leadership Teams (ELTs), including regular interactions with regional CEOs and their management teams to align sustainability with business strategies.
• Provide thought leadership on sustainability to senior leadership.
• Ensure sustainability aspects are integrated into the Transformation program.
• Lead relationships with Heads of Sustainability in customer organizations and industry bodies.
• Represent the Brambles Group in interactions with sustainability and industry external bodies.
• Lead and coordinate the Americas Sustainability teams.
• Oversee actions for successful inclusion in external indices: Ecovadis, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, MSCI, Barrons, etc.
• Ensure adoption and application of sustainability regulations and best practices for Brambles Group compliance.
• Define and lead internal and external sustainability communication actions in collaboration with the Brambles communication function.
• Responsible for all internal and external sustainability reporting.
• Identify and promote social initiatives for Brambles employees, aiming to utilize the three days of volunteer time allowance per employee.
• Ensure consistency between Brambles Strategy, Business Unit Strategy, and Sustainability Strategy.
• Lead the coordination and implementation of specific sustainability global initiatives across the whole Brambles organization.

Measures

• Progress towards meeting Brambles' public targets.
• Increase in customer intimacy and partnership, specifically the percentage of successful tenders where sustainability is a customer criterion.
• Number of business development opportunities with new and existing customers aimed at defining innovative sustainability solutions.
• Successful cultural shift within the company towards integrating sustainability into all aspects, thereby increasing employee engagement.
• Successful senior-level relationships and interactions with Customers, Trade Bodies, and external organizations.
• Achievement of Brambles' public sustainability targets.
• Enhancement of the Brambles brand within the broader stakeholder community.
• Leadership position on Americas Sustainability indices.

Authority/ Decision Making

• Adapt and sign off the Americas Sustainability Strategy
• Lead and organize the Regional Sustainability Teams
• Develop, Define and Approve Sustainability Projects
• Develop the creation and roll-out of Sustainability Sales Tools

Key Contacts

• Americas ELT
• Country General Managers (CGMs)
• Business Unit heads
• Global Function Heads
• Corporate and BU’s Sustainability Teams
• Zero Waste World (ZWW) and Transformation Teams
• Heads of Sustainability and leadership in customer organizations
• Business Development, Packaging and Supply Chain experts in leading customer and non-customer organisations
• Consultants and specialists supporting sustainability related projects

Essential Qualifications

• Bachelor's or graduate degree ideally in sustainability, a science discipline, or supply chain.
• Minimum of 10 years in leading roles in senior sustainability/CSR roles in a global organization with a prominent role in sustainability
• Commercial experience
• Experience of working in a complex supply chain environment
• Proven track record of stakeholder management in complex, matrixed organisations
• Has built relationships at strategic levels with customers, with good contacts and relationships
• Proven track record of development and successful implementation of strategy relating to Sustainability

Desirable Qualifications: MBA highly desirable

Languages Required: English; Desired; Spanish

Base pay range is $203,000-300,000 annually

Salary ranges provided take into account a wide variety of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications, geographic differentials and other business and organizational needs. Therefore, actual amounts offered may be higher or lower than the range provided. If you have questions, please speak to your Talent Acquisition Partner about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Dependent on the position offered, other forms of compensation may be part of a total offering beyond medical & retirement benefits and may include other monetary incentives or business benefits.