Filtration Environmental Strategy Manager

Leads processes to determine discipline positions on strategic environmental and business priorities and leads and internal and external stakeholder engagement. Manages, develops, and implements programs composed of multiple cross functional projects. Partners with key business stakeholders to ensure a successful project completion. Manages the design, development and implementation of tools and processes which facilitates the achievement of functional excellence. Partners with discipline leadership to identify process gaps, and develops improvement plans. Coordinates and monitors the execution of the improvement projects for a given area.
Designs, develops, and applies strategic frameworks to analyze identifying strategic opportunities, challenges, risk, threats, and develop solutions; synthesizes environmental data, stakeholder input, and trends necessary to develop insightful recommendations and policy solutions to support strategic business decisions. 
Communicates complex strategy topics clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences through both written and oral communication; develops unified messages and related communication materials. 
Maintains Environmental customer relationships by effectively leading multiple strategic projects with internal and external partners, such as peers in other units, staff groups, senior management and outside stakeholders, to accomplish organizational goals and to identify opportunities and resolve problems.  
Works with the business to understand its goals and objectives to ensure that environmental policy and strategic planning activities are aligned to the business; identifies risk to the enterprise from environmental issues. 
Documents common aspects of key functional processes and works to ensure that processes, tools, and people associated with these processes are available and capable.
Leads multiple cross-functional projects that may comprise a program from inception to completion; facilitate project planning sessions with internal stakeholders to determine the scope and objectives of each project; work with business stakeholders to establish project performance goals; design project plan, develop timeline, identify project milestones, and track performance against performance goals and timeline. 
Plans and monitors project budget, conduct research and analysis; provide input into the design and development of project plans and timelines. 
Manages project risk; use quality tools to identify areas of risk; identify alternatives or solutions; apply motivational techniques to broad-based organization change issues. 
Leverages experience of cross-functional resources and resources external to the project team; document and share team learnings with other teams; draw on other project team experiences to enhance the success of the project. 

Skills

Environmental Acumen - Leverages environmental topics and trends related to air, exhaust, water, waste, sustainability, and/or materials; uses environmental data to solve problems, understand business impact, protect and improve the environment while also making a positive impact in human health and well-being.

Manages complexity - Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Strategic mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies.

Plans and aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.

Collaborates - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.

Instills trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.

Gap Analysis And Inference - Collects data by speaking to stakeholders, benchmarking, or other method to compare and contrast gaps between current state and desired state (e.g. product capabilities, customer requirements, etc.); infers directional steps needed to reach desired state; making recommendations, as appropriate.

Project Issue and Risk Management - Manages the process to identify, assess and prioritize issues and risks using recommended tools and processes to minimize, monitor, and control the probability and/or impact of negative events or to maximize the realization of positive events.

Education, Licenses, Certifications

College, university, or equivalent degree in field appropriate for the discipline required.

Experience

Significant relevant work experience required. Experience leading global initiatives. Experience across organizations and global regions preferred.

• Define the vision for environmental strategy within the global Filtration business strategy
• Champion the development of environmentally sustainable business practices
• Provide consulting services on environmental compliance issues. Partner with technical consultants to support regional compliance evaluation and risk mitigation
• Support senior leadership and site leadership teams with effective interactions with regulators
• Create a proactive management system framework that focuses on sustainability, preventative actions and measures of success
• Partner with other functional leaders to integrate environmental sustainability into key business decisions
• Ensure business sets goals and reports progress for its Facility and Product Environmental footprint, to include GHG emissions, water consumption, energy consumption and waste/recycling
• Drive ownership of environmental performance through leadership to Plant Managers and site HSE leaders
• Partner with corporate responsibility sponsors to identify meaningful environmental projects that impact communities and engage our employees
• Partner with Filtration Health & Safety leader to create an integrated approach to site HSE management systems and resources
• Support and develop individuals and teams in environment acumen/knowledge
• Recognized expert with several years of experience in global multi-site organizations for developing environmental strategy and improving environmental performance
• We anticipate that the future responsibilities of this role will expand to include governance of climate-related risks and relevant risk management processes, plus assessment of direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and indirect emissions from purchased electricity or other forms of energy across the global supply chain.