Requirements: English
Company: Vans
Region: Stabio , Ticino
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Senior Sustainability Manager
Apply locations EMEA > CHE > Stabio > VF Campus VF1 time type Full time posted on Posted 30+ Days Ago job requisition id R-20241202-0010
VF Corporation is looking for an exceptional Senior Sustainability Manager to join our EMEA Sustainability team based in Stabio, Switzerland.
Lets Talk about the Role
As a Senior Sustainability Manager, youll be at the forefront of transforming VFs business capabilities in alignment with our Global Sustainability strategy and forthcoming regulatory requirements. This role will be central to driving progress in the EMEA region that contributes to VFs global sustainability goals, and will require adept relationship building skills across both internal and external stakeholders.
YOUR TEAM
We are a small team with big responsibilities. We design and implement the sustainability programs and initiatives across VF and its Brands in the EMEA region, and help in shaping the future of the organization. We do research, create strategies, implement projects, and innovate product and processes through the lens of our global sustainability strategy, and emerging regulatory requirements. The Senior Sustainability Manager will have a key role to play in shaping the team to meet the future demands and needs of the region and feed into global VF Sustainability programs.
YOUR MISSION
As Sn Manager Sustainability, you will be responsible for the following key activities and programs:
Environmental Regulatory Preparedness
- In partnership with VFs Government Affairs, Global Sustainability, Product Stewardship and Legal teams, as well as external partners, follow EU and global environmental regulatory developments.
- Act as subject matter expert and the essential point of knowledge and contact for the business on upcoming sustainability-related regulations in the EU, and collaborate with VF teams in other regions to inform the Global Sustainability strategy.
- Lead on collating information and insights to input into the EU policy development process in line with VFs public policy strategy.
- Transpose regulatory developments into forthcoming business requirements, and disseminate information through to key stakeholders across the business.
Sustainability Incubation, Implementation & Transformation
- Assess the business status quo against forthcoming requirements, and identify capability and capacity needs.
- Establish pathways to educate and upskill key stakeholders, across both regional and global functions, as critical enablers in the transformational effort required.
- In partnership with the Brand Sustainability Operations team, be a thought partner to incubate and implement critical regulatory requirements, e.g. ESPR performance & information requirements, eco-modulation pathways across packaging & textiles, product impact transparency & circularity indicators.
- Further develop the global coverage of EPR across key markets for VF and provide guidance and expertise to the global eco-modulation strategy and implementation.
- Be responsible for process documentation & SOP creation as well as risk advisory & controllership in close collaboration with internal & external expert stakeholders.
- People management & development responsibility, covering a team working across Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), EU Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) preparedness, regional Energy Efficiency compliance & action (EED), and other key initiatives.
YOUR STORY
- 5+ years of experience in the field, preferably within the apparel or footwear industry or adjacent industries that share similar industrial production challenges.
- Excellent stakeholder management skills and able to understand how to successfully lead cross-functional initiatives in highly matrixed organisations.
- Strong grounding in environmental policy, and EU governance and public policy.
- Excellent analytical skills & process thinking to translate complex external issues from multiple sources into tangible & streamlined guidance for a wider set of internal stakeholders.
- Experience in governance & process design, risk advisory & controls, working against assurance readiness.
- An ease to manoeuvre between different stakeholder groups and an ability to reconcile diverse inputs into an aligned pathway forward.
Skills for Success
- A boundless curiosity for the planet, nature and thriving ecosystems.
- An understanding of corporate business processes and the industry operating model.
- Excellent analytical skills & process thinking to translate complex external issues from multiple sources into tangible & streamlined guidance for a wider set of internal stakeholders.
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