Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader

Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader

Apply locations: Brazil - Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires - Olivos Office, Costa Rica - San Jose, Colombia - Flexible Location - Bogota

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 5 Days Ago

Job Description

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.

In this role, you will:

• Collaborate with Sustainability, Supply Chain, Legal, R&D, Marketing, and Finance teams to ensure compliance with environmental and sustainability-related policies, laws, regulations, and relevant standards, focusing on Kimberly-Clark’s assets, operations, products, materials, and brands.
• Stay abreast of relevant environmental and sustainability policy and regulatory developments; develop and align appropriate processes and controls to ensure compliance and effectively manage environmental and sustainability-related risks.
• Develop and deploy the environmental and sustainability risk assessment processes, building capabilities and prioritizing work based on severity and likelihood.
• Lead and execute the environmental and sustainability auditing process in the region in collaboration with Health & Safety; develop and issue audit reports and communicate gaps to key stakeholders.
• Coordinate regional efforts in environmental and sustainability risk and compliance execution to ensure pragmatic alignment. Provide support to Regional Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leaders in achieving their objectives.

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.

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.
• 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).
• 3+ years of experience in conducting environmental and sustainability risk assessments and management, including financial related effects, in areas of climate, energy, nature, and products.
• 3+ years of 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 (e.g., Risk Management, Legal, Research & Engineering, Regulatory Affairs, Government Relations, and Compliance & Ethics).
• Ability to travel to support business needs and audits (up to 40%).

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: https://careers.kimberly-clark.com/es-419

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.

This role is available for local candidates already authorized to work in the role’s country only. Kimberly-Clark will not provide relocation support for this role.

Primary Location

Brazil - Sao Paulo

Additional Locations

Buenos Aires - Olivos Office, Colombia - Flexible Location - Bogota, Costa Rica - San Jose

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time