Sustainability, Environmental & Resilience Manager

Role Purpose

Embed environmental sustainability, resource efficiency, and enterprise resilience into group strategy execution by driving measurable improvements in cost efficiency, operational continuity, environmental performance, and long-term value protection across subsidiaries.

This role is value-driven and operations-linked , not a PR, reporting, or compliance function. It ensures environmental and resilience priorities translate into financial impact, efficiency gains, and risk reduction .

1. Key Responsibilities

A) Environmental Sustainability & Resource Efficiency

• Identify and lead initiatives reducing energy, water, emissions, waste, and material losses across subsidiaries.
• Develop business cases for environmental and sustainability initiatives with measurable ROI and payback.
• Support implementation of resource efficiency programs in operations and supply chain.
• Track environmental performance indicators linked to cost, productivity, and efficiency.
• Support alignment with environmental targets where applicable.

B) Sustainability as Value Creation

• Build and maintain a portfolio of sustainability initiatives linked to cost savings and value protection.
• Identify opportunities in utilities optimization, waste reduction, and circular initiatives.
• Support integration of sustainability into capital investment decisions.
• Coordinate cross-entity initiatives for efficiency and environmental improvement.
• Review major capital projects and investment proposals to assess energy use, resource efficiency, environmental impact, and lifecycle cost implications, and provide recommendations to improve long-term cost performance and resilience.
• Coordinate cross-entity initiatives for efficiency and environmental improvement.

C) Resilience & Continuity Enablement

• Support group-level resilience priorities (supply disruption readiness, critical risk mitigation, operational continuity).
• Coordinate resilience planning across subsidiaries.
• Track resilience readiness indicators and escalate material risks.
• Support integration of resilience into transformation programs and investment decisions.

2. Core Competencies

• Commercial mindset
• Systems thinking
• Risk-based decision making
• Cross-functional influence
• Data-driven execution
• Practical implementation focus

3. Skills & Tools

• Utilities and resource efficiency analysis
• Environmental performance metrics
• Business continuity frameworks
• KPI and dashboard design
• Financial justification of initiatives
• Excel & Power BI preferred

4. Experience & Qualifications

• 7–12 years in sustainability, environmental efficiency, utilities optimization, operational excellence, or resilience roles
• Experience in manufacturing or supply chain environments strongly preferred
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Engineering or environmental discipline preferred

Certifications (Preferred but not mandatory)

• Energy management
• Environmental management
• ISO 14001 exposure
• ISO 22301 / BCM exposure
• Sustainability or carbon management exposure

Explicit Exclusions :

This role does NOT own:

• HSE operations
• Regulatory compliance
• ISO environmental audits
• External ESG reporting (unless assigned)
• CSR/PR programs
• Environmental permitting

Those remain with Operations/HSE/Compliance.