Sustainability Business Leader

Responsibilities

• Your main responsibilities will include:
• Drive Country Ownership & Enablement (Matrix responsibility): Ensure country teams have clarity, capability and prerequisites to execute sustainability initiatives that are relevant to their markets and business realities.
• Build Capability Through Coaching & Mentoring: Lead development of country sustainability leaders and teams through effective coaching, mentoring and role modelling of behaviours that embed sustainability in everyday decisions.
• Track & Strengthen Performance: Lead tracking, monitoring and performance dialogue across countries to ensure delivery, learning and continuous improvement on key sustainability goals.
• Maintain Cross‑Country Visibility & Alignment: Own the overview of sustainability initiatives across countries, support prioritisation and scaling of proven solutions, and identify gaps or duplications.
• Foster Collaboration & Best Practice Sharing: Lead and enable cross‑market collaboration, knowledge exchange and co‑creation of tools, playbooks and approaches that raise the bar globally.

Requirements

• To succeed in this role, we believe you have:
• Experience leading a matrix organisation, where you align leaders around common priorities while understanding local market needs and ensuring relevance in different contexts.
• Strong understanding of retail and business operations, with the ability to connect sustainability to growth, cost efficiency, and brand goals, supporting markets in delivering overall business performance.
• A solid track record of coaching and developing leaders and teams, building capabilities and strengthening sustainability leadership across markets.
• Experience driving collaboration across markets, enabling best practice sharing by creating simple tools, forums, and ways of working that help teams learn from each other and scale successful solutions.
• The ability to influence senior leaders, manage complex situations, and facilitate constructive dialogue to co-create solutions and move the business forward.
• University degree and 7 years related experience, or minimum 10 years of related experience

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