Global Sustainability Strategic Initiatives Leader

Job Description

Hybrid/Remote: This role is based remotely but if you live within a 50-mile radius of Warren, Michigan you are expected to report to that location three times a week, at minimum.

The Role

General Motors aims for Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion, and your role is essential to this vision. As part of this vision, GM is looking for a leader to drive oversight, project management, and attainment of public sustainability goals.  This includes oversight of GM’s double materiality assessment and investor engagements.

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What You'll Do

• Provide ongoing expertise and oversight of high profile, high value strategic sustainability programs and projects.
• Establish process to collect, analyze and communicate key sustainability insights for various stakeholders to drive innovation and informed decision making by governance bodies and workstreams.
• Lead strategic oversight of GM’s first ever double materiality assessment (DMA), including navigating alignment across key functions (sustainability, finance, legal, supply chain), and driving approach and management of key executive awareness, reviews and approvals. Related, lead implementation of outcomes and longer-term strategy to drive work needed as a result of material topics identified in the assessment. Lead future assessments (expected every other year.)
• Lead oversight, project management, and attainment of public sustainability goals, internal targets, and overall goal evolution. Maintain awareness and expertise of corporate goal setting trends, lead adjustments and evaluation of GM public goals, as well as oversee process to evaluate, adjust or sunset public goals and related internal targets and goals.
• Support core functions and business units responsible for sustainability KPIs and targets to embed sustainability in their BU/function plans. Lead process to drive quarterly accountability to their KPIs and provide guidance and support as needed to help them achieve their goals and/or influence work needed to achieve them.
• Support investor engagements on ESG and sustainability topics, as well as related investor inquiries or activities needed to deliver on investor expectations.
• Serve as core leader for triaging sustainability-related inquiries, often ad hoc, as trends or news cycles create new issues or topics that need exploration and action planning.
• Serve as core leader for sustainability story identification to meet brand & story telling KPI for sustainability in close partnership with corporate communications.
• Support stakeholder engagement strategy development and ongoing stakeholder engagement activities as needed.
• Serve as external spokesperson, thought leader, and ongoing sustainability expert for GM’s sustainability strategy, vision and related programs.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications)

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Business, Sustainability, Science, or other related field.  
• Minimum 10 years of sustainability expertise, with public recognition as sustainability leader, and demonstrated ability to lead complex, global enterprise-wide sustainability strategies and programs.
• Strong ability to influence and drive accountability across an enterprise.
• Action-oriented mindset toward action, innovation and leadership on environmental and social topics and broad corporate sustainability strategy, with ability to navigate strong headwinds with resilience and maintain optimism for direct team, enterprise and beyond.
• Authentic commitment to the EV transition, a zero emissions future for GM, and a more sustainable world.

Compensation: The compensation information is a good faith estimate only. It is based on what a successful applicant might be paid in accordance with applicable state laws. The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position, as well as geography of the selected candidate.

• The salary range for this role is $137,000 - $214,300 . The actual base salary a successful candidate will be offered within this range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.
• Bonus Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.
• Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays, tuition assistance programs, employee assistance program, GM vehicle discounts and more.

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits. 
 

GM DOES NOT PROVIDE IMMIGRATION-RELATED SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS ROLE. DO NOT APPLY  FOR THIS ROLE IF YOU WILL NEED GM IMMIGRATION SPONSORSHIP NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. THIS INCLUDES DIRECT COMPANY SPONSORSHIP, ENTRY OF GM AS THE IMMIGRATION EMPLOYER OF RECORD ON A GOVERNMENT FORM, AND ANY WORK AUTHORIZATION REQUIRING A WRITTEN SUBMISSION OR OTHER IMMIGRATION SUPPORT FROM THE COMPANY (e.g., H-1B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc.)

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us 

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

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