Global Head of Corporate Sustainability

Introduction

Zoetis has long been a values and purpose-driven organization. Our focus on animal health and creating healthier communities is at very essence of our purpose. At the beginning of 2020, we formally defined "Championing a Safe and Sustainable Future" as one of our five key strategic priorities. Sustainability has increased in importance to Zoetis because we believe that we can and must make a difference on social and environmental issues as well as due to growing interest among our employees, customers, and investors to more programmatically address sustainability matters.

As such, Zoetis has developed Driven to Care , a cohesive strategy and a long-term roadmap to expand our contribution, heighten our focus on key issues, and set metrics that track our performance. We are looking for a Global Head of Corporate Sustainability to continue to operationalize the strategic plan and advance our ESG agenda to amplify our impact and contribution on communities, animal health and the environment.

Description

• Support the EVP, Corp. Affairs, Communications & Sustainability in driving Zoetis’ sustainability agenda and meeting desired objectives and metrics
• Work collaboratively with senior business leaders and the ZET, including the Chief Executive Officer as well as other leaders in Commercial, R&D, Manufacturing and Supply, Finance, HR, Corporate Affairs/Communications, and IT departments
• Play a highly visible role with direct impact on the evolution of the market leader in animal health
• Play a highly visible role with external stakeholders, including customers and industry participants

Responsibilities:

This role has two main focus areas:

• Drive overall sustainability agenda and provide expertise on sustainability trends and implications
  • Engage Senior Leaders on sustainability and progress towards goals; provide visibility to Zoetis Executive Team and support updates to the Board of Directors
  • Review and adapt portfolio of sustainability initiatives regularly
  • Advance ESG strategy for reporting to investors and stakeholders and drive reporting process in collaboration with Corporate Affairs, Finance and Investor Relations teams
  • Monitor sustainability trends and advise initiatives on implications for Zoetis (incl. conducting supporting analyses)
  • Bridge expertise between Zoetis initiative owners and sustainability stakeholder community
• Provide focused support in agenda execution
  • Advance Zoetis’ climate strategy in partnership with Manufacturing & Supply, Finance, IT and commercial teams
  • Serve as thought partner on sustainability topics to help markets and functions with execution
  • Link the sustainability agenda to the overall strategic agenda by partnering closely with Corporate Strategy team
  • Break down sustainability goals into targets / KPIs for relevant leaders and link to performance management
  • Ensure that annual operating plan inputs around sustainability result in cohesive set of actions to meet sustainability targets
  • Work with initiative owners on topical or regional forums to bring in Zoetis’ sustainability perspective

Requirements:

• BA required; MBA preferred
• Background in sustainability and social impact; strategy consulting experience preferred
• Background in life sciences / animal health / agriculture preferred
• Strong presence and collaborative working style with the ability to drive cross-functional projects
• History of being resourceful and self-motivated, with ability to operate with limited direction and prioritize based on business and stakeholder value

Skills:

• Eager to learn and happy to play a role where success means “influencing without authority”
• Exhibits strong project management and interpersonal skills in driving cross-functional teams towards common objectives
• Strong executive presence, including ability to interact well with senior management and executive teams
• Ability to be the external face of sustainability at Zoetis including external events and conferences
• Strong strategic and business acumen, financial analysis, change management and relationship building skills
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills
• Strong demonstrated learning agility to work on a wide variety of topics and comfort dealing with ambiguity
• Possesses or able to quickly develop a strong understanding of the animal health business and Zoetis

Full time

Regular

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