Corporate sustainability jobs and people moves
This fortnight’s sustainability vacancies include roles at Starbucks, Mars, WWF, Wella and Schneider Electric.
Starbucks is looking for someone to oversee its external communications on coffee and sustainability. The global ‘strategy principal’ will be based in Seattle and be paid between $128k and $214k.
Chocolate giant Mars is seeking a human rights manager to help build its stakeholder management practices for its supply chain. The hybrid role, which reports to the firm’s social impact director, will be based in Virginia.
Dubai-based logistics firm DP World is recruiting a group director for sustainability to help it achieve its environmental and social goals, including its “long-term vision of minimising social risk across its operations”.
US storage firm Western Digital is hiring a director to take charge of its sustainability disclosures, including to ratings providers. The California-based role carries a salary of between $173k and $246k.
German electronics retailer MediaMarktSaturn is on the hunt for a head of circularity services to join its Ingolstadt-based team.
Danish healthcare company Novo Nordisk is looking for an ESG auditor to join its internal audit team.
Wella is hiring a senior sustainability expert to focus on how its research and development efforts contribute to its decarbonisation goals. The role is based in Darmstadt.
Singaporean transport firm ComfortDelGro is looking for a senior sustainability executive to oversee its strategy.
Environmental think-tank E3G is looking for a policy advisor to join its EU sustainable finance programme, and WWF is looking for a Washington-based senior programme officer to focus on corporate climate engagement.
The We Mean Business Coalition is recruiting a senior manager for its SME Climate Hub.
The UK’s Green Finance Institute has put a call out for a programme director to work on sustainable aviation fuel. Applications are open until June 20th.
Tyson Foods is searching for a senior data scientist to lead its global greenhouse gas emissions accounting work.
Schneider Electric is recruiting an environmental sustainability manager to be based in either Sweden or Canada. The French firm has just named Esther Finidori as its new Chief Sustainability Officer, replacing Chris Leong after just a few months in the role. Finidori was Schneider Electric’s vice president of strategy. Leong has gone to Ecolab as chief marketing and innovation officer.
Other people moves include Wayfair’s CSO Anna Vinagradova, who has been replaced by Devin Gile, a former renewable solutions manager at International Paper.
US food company McCormick & Company has promoted its vice president of global sustainability, Kathy Rostkowski, to CSO, replacing Michael Okoroafor; and Shilpa Agrawal has joined Vestas as a sustainability reporting specialist.