Sustainability Leader - NA (US KC-Site)

Sustainability Leader - NA (US KC-Site)

Job Description

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. 

The North America Sustainability Leader will formulate and execute commercial, products & materials related strategies for sustainability, supporting KC’s North America business segment, containing iconic brands such as Huggies, Kotex® & Kleenex®.  The incumbent will translate global product sustainability goals (Plastics, Fiber, Scope 3, Social Impact) to a focused approach designed to capture business value and elevate K-C’s brands, leveraging customer/consumer insights for highest market penetration.

In this role, you will:


* Develops and deploys the sustainability plans and objectives to support K-C’s North American product and brand portfolios, in close collaboration with segment R&D and growth teams and functional leaders.


* Collaborates with global program and other segment environment & sustainability leaders to set the targets and guidelines for the segment plastics, fiber, climate (Scope 3) & social impact goals, aligning Enterprise, Segment and category needs.   Drives performance management with a bias for execution/activation.


* Leads action teams consisting of R&D, procurement, business & brand leaders  to develop, validate and activate segment sustainability pipelines.


* Leverages customer and consumer insights, trends and business value creation levers to prioritize areas of focus and create commercial value for the brands.


* Enables & executes development of innovative business and circularity models, including products and processes designed to enhance the sustainability performance of K-C’s brands and products.


* Actively engages with innovation and R&D business processes to ensure principles of sustainability are embedded and considered in materials selection & product design.

Collaborate with brand and innovation teams to embed  “Design for Sustainability” processes and capabilities


* Partners with business/brands/innovation teams to identify, develop, launch strategic initiatives capable of driving growth and competitive advantage through sustainability.  Actively supports development of authentic sustainability-related marketing and communications activities.


* Strives for excellence in all formal and informal communications.

Work towards clear, cogent, practical and action-oriented written and oral communications that focus on the problem, recommend solutions and take into consideration the audience being addressed.


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