Senior Director of Sustainability
industrial_energy_operations › Sustainability (Energy / Mining) · M6 — M6 — Vice President · Management
Senior executive leader who directs an organization's sustainability strategy and programs across energy or mining operations, managing multiple managers and cross-functional initiatives.
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$241,631 USD
▲ +182.2% vs M1 on this ladder
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What this role is
Senior executive leader who directs an organization's sustainability strategy and programs across energy or mining operations, managing multiple managers and cross-functional initiatives. At the Vice President (M6) level, the role owns a major function or division, enterprise priorities and external factors, and drives division-wide / organization-wide. Leads the leadership of a division.
What this level does
- Lead the sustainability function across multiple divisions or the enterprise through senior managers, setting long-term strategy for responsible mining, energy management, and decarbonization with lasting effect on company success
- Define enterprise policy on abstract, cross-functional sustainability issues, and where the head-of-sustainability mandate extends the scope, across related activities such as environmental management, health and safety, or CSR
- Negotiate with executives, boards, regulators, and industry standards bodies on critical sustainability commitments, framework governance, and public performance targets
- Direct the integration of sustainability across corporate strategy so that energy, carbon, and responsible-mining objectives shape long-term capital and operating decisions
- Serve as the senior authority on sustainability risk and opportunity, keeping the organization proactively aligned to evolving industry frameworks (TSM, GISTM, TCFD/TNFD) and regulatory change
- Knowledge applied
- Defines long-term enterprise sustainability strategy across responsible mining, energy, and decarbonization, and where mandated related domains.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Tackles abstract, cross-functional issues with long-term effect on company success; sets enterprise policy.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Negotiates with executives, boards, regulators, and standards bodies on critical sustainability matters; influences policy.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years, deep leadership across departments or divisions.
Skills at this level
- Reporting frameworks knowledge
- — Directs alignment of sustainability and responsible-mining reporting to standards and frameworks such as GRI, SASB, ICMM principles, TSM, GISTM, and TCFD/TNFD.
- Sustainability data systems and reporting workflows
- — Manages sustainability data reporting or management systems (e.g., Intelex), including data collection, validation, and reporting workflows that feed framework submissions.
- Energy audits and efficiency programs
- — Oversees energy audits that analyze usage patterns and recommend technologies and practices leading to resource savings and cost reductions across sites.
- Energy forecasting modeling
- — Applies statistical and financial models for energy forecasting and comprehensive data analysis to support sustainability planning.
- Sustainability KPI setting and tracking
- — Sets and tracks key performance indicators to measure progress toward energy efficiency and sustainability targets at department and division level.
- Sustainability strategy integration
- — Embeds sustainability principles into corporate and operational strategies, reducing the environmental footprint of operations while enabling sustainable growth through continuous analysis and planning.
- Stakeholder engagement
- — Engages employees, customers, and regulators to raise awareness about sustainability goals and achievements and to secure alignment on framework commitments.
- Regulatory compliance and risk management
- — Ensures compliance with environmental regulations and proactively identifies and implements changes responding to upcoming sustainability risks and opportunities.
- Data analysis for footprint reduction
- — Uses data analysis tools and sustainability metrics to identify opportunities for reducing waste, energy use, and carbon footprint.
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