Director of Sustainability Solutions

Full Time
New York, NY
Posted
Job description
About rePurpose Global

rePurpose Global is the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform dedicated to reducing waste, reviving lives, and restoring nature's balance. Through our pioneering ecosystem of solutions that span advisory, action, and advocacy, we help people and companies calculate, reduce, and offset their plastic footprint, while empowering grassroots innovators on the cutting edge, solving for our planet's future.

To date, we've created systemic change for people across 26 countries and hundreds of purposeful brands worldwide, such as Grove Collaborative, AB InBev, The Hut Group, Google, Credit Suisse, and Colgate. On behalf of our global coalition, we eliminate millions of pounds of plastic waste from nature every year, and in doing so, positively impact the lives of 10,000+ marginalized waste workers and community members worldwide.

rePurpose Global in Numbers

Founded in 2016 at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
80-person+ full-time team spanning Asia, Europe, the US, and Africa
20+ operational rePurpose Impact Projects spanning across 5 countries and 3 continents
155 countries where rePurpose-certified products are retailed worldwide
Over 14 million pounds of plastic waste eliminated from nature every year - that's 3500+ plastic bags equivalent of waste removed by our Impact Projects, EVERY SINGLE MINUTE

Spearhead Corporate Sustainability functions at rePurpose Global to develop the world’s foremost one-stop shop for the CPG industry to measure their plastic footprint and reduce plastic waste through effective actions.

As a rapidly growing, VC-backed social enterprise, we are seeking a Corporate Sustainability Director / Director of Sustainability Solutions to co-lead, mentor, and empower the sustainability team at rePurpose Global. In this capacity, you will directly collaborate with Aditya Siroya , Co-Founder & Chief Impact Officer and report to Tamara Nemeroff to drive the team’s strategy across sustainability functions [Research & Analysis, New Product Development, Ecosystem Partnerships].

The role’s success will be viewed as establishing the corporate sustainability team as a strong and effective partner in the business development and customer engagement processes. The role requires developing a robust product innovation pipeline, demonstrating continuous improvement in work processes and customer data analysis, establishing a strong internal research portfolio, and ensuring active partnerships with NGOs, standard developers, industry trade associations and other coalitions active in plastic waste debates.

Responsibilities

  • 1️⃣ Develop and lead a team capable of robust product innovation and demonstrate continuous improvement in compliance processes and customer data collection and analysis.
  • 2️⃣ Establish 5-10 external partnerships on a global and national stage to build the credibility of rPG among industry sustainability stakeholders.
  • 3️⃣ Manage & develop internal processes for sustainability operations, ensuring impact outcomes meet evolving marketplace requirements
  • 4️⃣ Manage & develop internal processes for sustainability operations ensuring impact outcomes meeting international standards & certifications
  • 5️⃣ Support business development and customer engagements to build trust and credibility of rePurpose Global with CPG brand partners and improve product offers.

In doing so, your goal is to initiate and nurture a product development and delivery organisation that enables the CPG industry to measure its plastic footprint and reduce plastic waste through effective actions.

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