Sustainability, Environmental & Resilience Manager
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About the Role
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.
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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.
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.
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