Global Sustainability Lead

**About the job**
We have a clear purpose**:to accelerate the global transformation to clean technologies**. The world has woken up to the fact that water and energy are precious resources that must be cherished. Technology will play the leading role in transforming the industry so that we can all live a more sustainable life. We are a technology-first company, powered by pur people that leads in our core markets, providing essential software and services to the energy industry, moving it into the cloud, transforming it to be agile and deploying clean solutions to consumers and enterprises across the globe. We bring innovation and pace to the industry.

The company is a 600+ person, growing business dual-listed in the Australian and New Zealand exchanges. The company is hiring a Global Sustainability Leader who will report directly into the Chief People Officer (CPO) and work closely with the CEO and executive team to define the company’s sustainability strategy, programs and leverage the entire company to execute against these initiatives.

**The specifics**
- In this pivotal role and you will work very closely with a highly capable group of leaders. You will have the full support of the Chief Executive, CPO and ELT to drive your vision.
- Today the company has three main pillars to its sustainability strategy. They are:

- Build cleantech technologies to allow retailers and vertically integrated energy providers to support hundreds of millions of homes and businesses with more efficient and cleaner uses of energy and water
- Implement a Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and programme centred on reducing plastic use for cleaner oceans and programs to protect and enhance our global waterway
- Drive internal sustainability targets with clear goals and objectives as we journey towards net zero
- The role touches on all sustainability topics including diversity and inclusion, but the priority focus areas for now are noted above.
- Ideally the role will be stationed out of London, but the company is open to placing this role in
- Auckland, Melbourne or Pune.
- You will not have a direct team working for you. A key enabler of the job is to therefore leverage passionate Gentrackers to drive these programs - including Sustainability and CSR sponsor leads at Gentrack’s people locations around the world.
- Being savvy on technology is a benefit as we are a software organization which makes cleantech products for the planet. This multiplier effect of our technology being used by many others is part of our Sustainability strategy and purpose. Defining ways to better invest in green initiatives and quantifying the impact is a necessary part of the role. This does not mean that the Sustainability manager will be a Software Product manager but will work closely with the CTO and customers to shape, leverage and communicate on such programs.

**This role will give you the opportunity to**:

- Choose your own path to success - you’ll have the freedom to build the vision and the responsibility for making it happen.
- Be flexible in how and where you work, we understand everyone needs a little something different, so we’ll do our best to make it happen. We believe in collaboration and as such expect that this role will be better connected if a minimum of 60% of the time is spent in the office.
- Potential travel to work with our teams that are spread across the world.
- Work with the Global CPO to frame strategies /approaches in the field to socialize with the board.
- Inspire teams with your ideas, knowledge and self-starting attitude.
- Passionately bring opinions in an environment that supports a plurality of views and perspectives despite hierarchy.

**Some important characteristics we are looking for**:

- We are a high integrity organization, and our values are based on respect - respect for our planet, our customers, and our employees. As a leader in the company, it is important that these values resonate with you and that you act on them daily - empowering the culture of the business.
- You are a change program expert with proven experience in creating, delivering, and driving positive change in purpose led initiatives.
- You are analytical and creative - a consultancy change background would be beneficial.
- You are influential and engaging to ensure that the programs are shared in accountability and demonstrable in delivery.
- You are in the details. The entire team is detailed oriented to a deep degree including the CEO. The CEO expects the company’s leaders to be across the specifics of their function and learn the product and industry. If you are not such a person, then this role will not work.
- You are highly collaborative. You have a genuine passion for creating an environment where people can do their best and act as one team.
- Finally, Sustainability has a large remit and must evolve by its very nature. You will not tackle it all at once. You will shape this strategy and galvanize an organi