Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader

at  KimberlyClark

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.

In this role, you will:

• 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.
• Develops and deploys the environmental and sustainability risk assessment processes, building capabilities and prioritizing work based on severity and likelihood.
• 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.
• Coordinate regional efforts in environmental and sustainability risk and compliance execution to ensure pragmatic alignment. Provide support to Regional Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leaders in achieving their objectives.

ABOUT US

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.
At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.
Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

In this role, you will:

• 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.
• Develops and deploys the environmental and sustainability risk assessment processes, building capabilities and prioritizing work based on severity and likelihood.
• 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.
• Coordinate regional efforts in environmental and sustainability risk and compliance execution to ensure pragmatic alignment. Provide support to Regional Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leaders in achieving their objectives

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering, science, environmental economics or related field specific to roles in environmental and sustainability compliance or risk management in complex manufacturing operations.
• 10+ years of experience working in related roles requiring environmental and sustainability regulatory, risk management, audits and controls.
• Working knowledge of applicable, pending, and evolving environmental and sustainability requirements in relevant jurisdictions (international, national, local).
• 3+ years of experience in conducting environmental and sustainability risk assessment and management, including financial related effects, in areas of climate, energy, nature and products.
• 3+ years of experience developing controls to ensure compliance and conducting and managing environmental and sustainability audits.
• Ability to effectively communicate complex legal or internal requirements to all levels, providing guidance to leaders in Supply Chain and collaborating on these topics with other relevant business functions (e.g. Risk Management, Legal, Research & Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Government Relations and Compliance & Ethics).
• Ability to travel to support business needs and audits (up to 40%)