Manufacturing Sustainability Director
About the Role
This role translates the general Supply Chain Sustainability strategy into impactful, manufacturing‑specific continuous‑improvement action plans and improvement projects. It plays a pivotal role in driving performance improvements across manufacturing sites worldwide and ensuring that operations deliver against ambitious long‑term sustainability targets — including SBT CO₂ net zero, responsible materials use, waste reduction, and water stewardship.
What You Will Do
You bring an uncompromised commitment to our I Care journey, actively fostering a safe, healthy, and sustainable working environment for all.
- Lead and inspire the development and implementation of sustainability projects and initiatives across manufacturing sites globally.
- Contribute to disruptive innovation by scouting, exploring, and advancing emerging technologies within manufacturing sustainability.
- Define clear and pragmatic technical pathways to achieve environmental targets in production, aligned with the global Supply Chain Sustainability strategy.
- Support manufacturing sites in identifying performance gaps, assessing technical opportunities, and delivering structured improvement roadmaps.
- Identify, pilot, and deploy technologies that enhance energy and material efficiency, enable alternative energy sources, and accelerate waste and water reduction as well as circularity within manufacturing operations.
- Partner closely with Engineering and Technology Platform teams on equipment upgrades, sustainability‑related CAPEX projects, and other strategic initiatives.
- Enable and support the effective use of sustainability performance data from manufacturing sites to drive transparency, insight, and decision‑making.
- Work in close collaboration with site leaders, engineering, procurement, and maintenance teams to seamlessly integrate sustainability into day‑to‑day operations.
- Build strong partnerships with external experts, technology pro