Senior Director – Sustainability Operations

Role Overview

• Lead global teams across climate, carbon reduction, forestry, renewables, life cycle assessment (LCA), and sustainability operations.
• Own development and execution of HP’s end-to-end decarbonization roadmap across Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
• Ensure sustainability requirements are embedded into product and service design through NPIs and NSIs.
• Drive cross-functional execution to meet HP’s external climate, deforestation-free, and circularity commitments.
• Provide executive leadership for HP’s Responsible Sourcing strategy, including human rights and environmental due diligence across the supply base.
• Oversee supplier sustainability performance, monitoring, and risk mitigation programs in partnership with Procurement and Supply Chain Responsibility teams.
• Ensure supplier alignment with HP requirements related to
• Human rights and labor standards, Environmental performance (carbon, water, materials, forestry), Regulatory readiness (e.g., UFLPA, EU Battery Regulation, CSRD, emerging due-diligence regulations).
• Drive supplier capability-building, data quality, and continuous improvement to support HP’s sustainability and market-access commitments.
• Own governance and execution of HP’s sustainability reporting and disclosure processes, ensuring audit-ready, accurate, and timely reporting.
• Oversee sustainability data systems, metrics, and controls supporting internal management reporting and external disclosures.
• Lead responses to customer, investor, regulatory, and ratings-agency inquiries (e.g., CDP, DJSI, TCFD, SASB, CSRD).
• Partner with Finance, Legal, and Disclosure Committees to ensure alignment across sustainability, financial, and regulatory reporting.
• Lead and develop a global organization of sustainability subject-matter experts.
• Influence executives and senior leaders across HP with clear insights on sustainability risks, tradeoffs, and opportunities.
• Represent HP externally with customers, NGOs, industry consortia, and regulators.
• Maintain HP’s leadership position by anticipating regulatory trends and shaping pre-competitive industry action.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Sustainability, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in sustainability, supply chain operations, responsible sourcing, climate strategy, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated executive-level leadership of enterprise sustainability programs across global value chains.
• Deep expertise in: Climate and carbon management (GHG Protocol, SBTi), Responsible sourcing and supplier due diligence, Sustainability data, controls, and reporting frameworks (CDP, DJSI, TCFD, SASB, CSRD)
• Strong understanding of product life cycles and supplier ecosystems in complex, global industries.
• Proven ability to translate complex technical and regulatory topics into clear business and leadership insights.
• Experience with carbon offsets/credits, developing long-term, high-quality community/forestry partnerships, and leading forestry standards such as Verra VCS is a plus.
• Experience with emerging carbon capture technologies is also a plus.
• Ability to translate complex concepts/data into simple to understand business reports and meaningful leadership insights.
• Strong business acumen – ability to define problems and translate findings into a clear business case with tangible analysis.
• Applies a solid understanding of HP's financial systems and business models to prioritize the team’s work, while helping refine future business opportunities.
• Values diverse thinking – excellent teamwork & collaboration skills exemplifying respect, integrity, and agility.
• Customer obsession – puts the customer first in the way we design, innovate, and develop our vision.
• Growth mindset – passionate about growing their own skills and the overall team’s skills.
• Competitive spirit– someone who wins with purpose and integrity.
• Is an excellent communicator, at all levels; able to distil complex inter-related disciplines into brief, impactful, and convincing arguments.
• Ability to thrive in the dynamic tech industry environment while bringing the discipline and processes required to drive the business as it scales.
• Industry-wide thought leadership
• develops new skills and capabilities internally and externally through partners, industry forums, and global climate related NGO’s.
• Able to scale – networking externally with key stakeholders and organizations to drive pre-competitive action on climate across a shared supply chain.
• Courageous leadership – willingness to tackle planet size problems while having cross-functional and executive conversations as we work to proactively move toward a more circular and low carbon economy.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave