Program Specialist, Environmental LCA
Job DescriptionYou’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:
Be responsible for developing, implementing, and monitoring company-wide environmental lifecycle assessment capabilities, processes and tools. This role involves analyzing the environmental impacts of K-C’s products from end-to-end, supporting product and materials innovation to identify areas for improvement, recommending changes to procedures, and ensuring the integration of sustainable practices into our business strategy.
Drives innovation, value creation and competitive advantage through product/packaging sustainability practices by implementing systems, tools and best practices, and building the sustainability mindset and capabilities of product development, marketing and packaging teams.
Completes environmental lifecycle assessments in support of product development and category teams, making recommendations and driving environmental footprint improvements.
Partners across the Sustainability and Digital teams to build future-facing LCA processes, platforms and capabilities, with a vision and strategy that enables sharing of environmental impact data with customers.
Identifies opportunities to manage/reduce environmental impacts via product/packaging innovation and new technology development, and shares best practices globally.
Tracks and reports on key sustainable product/packaging KPIs/metrics.
Integrates LCA and product scorecarding into K-C’s innovation processes..
Supports capability building throughout the global organization relative to application of lifecycle assessment tools and thinking.
Benchmarks externally and stays current with latest trends and standards related to LCA
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 Environmental Specialist LCA 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:
Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, or a related field.
At least 5 years of experience working in environmental LCA in a consulting capacity or a complex, global CPG company.
Strong digital, analytical and problem-solving skills.
Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
Knowledge of environmental regulations and sustainability standards.
Exceptional ability to extract, distill, communicate, and teach complex processes and requirements to all levels of the organization
Strong interpersonal and communications skills to motivate, coach, lead, and influence multinational working teams at various levels of the organization without authority
Ability to adapt to rapidly changing needs across the organization.
Experience in building strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time to support Segment needs.
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.
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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 check, and DMV check.
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