Environmental & Sustainability Risk & Compliance Leader APAC

Environmental & Sustainability Risk & Compliance Leader APAC

Job Description

Your Job

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role.

Neither are we.

Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference.

Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands.

In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU. 

Role Overview & Primary Accountabilities:


* Collaborate with Sustainability, Supply Chain, Legal, R&D, Marketing and Finance teams, works to ensure compliance with environmental and sustainability-related policies, laws, regulations, and relevant standards, with a focus on Kimberly-Clark’s assets, operations, products, materials and brands.


* Stay abreast of relevant environmental and sustainability policy and regulatory developments; develops and aligns appropriate processes and controls to ensure compliance and effectively manage environmental and sustainability-related risks.

Communicates developments to key stakeholders and drives continuous improvement in processes/controls as needed.


* Develops and deploys the environmental and sustainability risk assessment processes, building capabilities and prioritizing work based on severity and likelihood.

Partner with Sustainability and Enterprise Risk Management to apply sustainability risk and materiality assessments at the regional level in support of sustainability strategy/planning and to enable legally required environmental and sustainability-related reporting requirements.


* Devise and deploy management controls validation processes and activities against compliance needs and risks; reports on gaps and drives corrective/preventative actions.


* Leads and executes the environmental and sustainability auditing process in the region in collaboration with Health & Safety; develops and issues audit reports.

Communicates and escalates gaps to key stakeholders.


* Recommend, support and monitor closure of environmental and sustainability compliance/conformance gaps and provides status updates to key stakeholders.

Leverages digital systems/platforms to review and synthesize audit data/metrics; conduct trend analysis and recommend systemic improvements.


* Leverage IMF, capital planning/governance, claims review/validation and other business processes to verify compliance early in the innovation cycle and as part of project execution.

Communicates and escalates concerns and recommendations to key stakeholders and leadership accordingly.


* Review, validate and approve all product-related sustainability claims within the region and drives consistency and process improvements accordingly.


* Coordinate regional efforts in environmental and sustainability risk and compliance execution to ensure pragmat...