Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader

Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader

Job Description

Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader

Permanent, Full Time

Location: UK (Other EMEA Locations also considered – France, Germany, Italy)

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 Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader will be responsible for environmental and sustainability compliance and risk management. This role involves assessing compliance requirements and risks from both financial and impact perspectives, while developing capabilities, processes, and controls within their region of accountability.

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 drive consistency and process improvements accordingly.

• Coordinate regional efforts in environmental and sustainability risk and compliance execution to ensure pragmatic alignment.

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. 

About You 

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development. 

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.  

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/environments.

• Ideally 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).

• At least 3 years experience in conducting environmental and sustainability risk assessment and management, including financial related effects, in areas of climate, energy, nature and products.

• Ideally 3 years + of demonstrated work 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

This role will require the ability to travel to support business needs and audits (up to 40%).

Total Benefits 

Here are just a few of the benefits you’d enjoy working in this role for Kimberly-Clark. For a complete overview, see www.mykcbenefits.com.  
 

Great support for good health with medical, dental, and vision coverage options with no waiting periods or pre-existing condition restrictions. Access to an on-site fitness center, occupational health nurse, and allowances for high-quality safety equipment.  

Flexible Savings and spending accounts to maximize health care options and stretch pounds when caring for yourself or dependents. 

Diverse income protection insurance options to protect yourself and your family in case of illness, injury, or other unexpected events. 

Additional programs and support to continue your education, adopt a child, relocate, or even find temporary childcare. 

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance.  Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme. 

To Be Considered 
Click the Apply button and complete the online application process. A member of our recruiting team will review your application and follow up if you seem like a great fit for this role.  

In the meantime, please check out the careers website.  

And finally, the fine print…. 

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world.  We actively seek to build a workforce that reflects the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position. 

Employment is subject to verification of pre-screening tests, which may include drug screening, background checks.

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Primary Location

United Kingdom- Flexible Location - South East England

Additional Locations

France- Flexible Location, Germany-Flexible Location, Italy- Flexible Location

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time