Regional Environment

**Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader**

**Permanent, Full Time**

**Location: Germany (Other EMEA Locations also considered - France, United Kingdom)**

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.

The Regional Environment & Sustainability Risk and Compliance Leader will be responsible for environmental and sustainability compliance and risk management. This role involves assessing compliance requirements and risks from both financial and impact perspectives, while developing capabilities, processes, and controls within their region of accountability.

In this role, your responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

- Collaborate with Sustainability, Supply Chain, Legal, R&D, Marketing and Finance teams, works to ensure compliance with environmental and sustainability-related policies, laws, regulations, and relevant standards, with a focus on Kimberly-Clark’s assets, operations, products, materials and brands.
- Devise and deploy management controls validation processes and activities against compliance needs and risks; reports on gaps and drives corrective/preventative actions.
- Leads and executes the environmental and sustainability auditing process in the region in collaboration with Health & Safety; develops and issues audit reports.
- Recommend, support and monitor closure of environmental and sustainability compliance/conformance gaps and provides status updates to key stakeholders. Leverages digital systems/platforms to review and synthesize audit data/metrics; conduct trend analysis and recommend systemic improvements.
- Leverage IMF, capital planning/governance, claims review/validation and other business processes to verify compliance early in the innovation cycle and as part of project execution. Communicates and escalates concerns and recommendations to key stakeholders and leadership accordingly.
- Review, validate and approve all product-related sustainability claims within the region and drive consistency and process improvements accordingly.
- Coordinate regional efforts in environmental and sustainability risk and compliance execution to ensure pragmatic alignment.

**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 professional 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:

- 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/environments.
- Ideally 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).
- At least 3 years experience in conducting environmental and sustainability risk assessment and management, including financial related effects, in areas of climate, energy, nature and products.
- Ideally 3 years + of demonstrated work experience developing controls to ensure complianc