Sustainability Operations Delivery Lead

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Job Summary

The Sustainability Operations Delivery Lead is an expert-level role responsible for integrating and delivering HP’s sustainability agenda to achieve Net Zero by 2040, with a primary focus on Scope 3 decarbonization, cost optimization, external outcomes, and enterprise storytelling.

This role unifies execution across three critical domains required to deliver Net Zero:

• Customer-driven decarbonization (Carbon Sync and customer commitments)
• Operational decarbonization (renewable energy strategy and execution with CREWS)
• Supplier decarbonization (sourcing strategy and coordinated engagement across the value chain)

The role ensures these workstreams operate as a single, coordinated system, delivering:

• Measurable emissions reductions aligned to Net Zero 2040
• Cost-optimized decarbonization strategies
• Audit-ready, externally credible data and reporting
• Compelling, differentiated narratives for HP’s sustainability leadership

Key Responsibilities

1. End-to-End Integration of Decarbonization Workstreams

• Integrate and align:
  • Customer-driven decarbonization
  • Operational decarbonization (CREWS)
  • Supplier decarbonization
• Establish a single operating model across:
  • Strategy → Execution → Data → Reporting → Narrative
• Reduce fragmentation, ensuring:
  • Shared priorities
  • Aligned metrics
  • Consistent delivery cadence

2. Sustainability Delivery (Scope 3 + External Outcomes)

• Lead execution across:
  • Renewable energy
  • Carbon reduction and removals
  • Water and waste
  • Operational circularity (internal operations and resource flows, not product/packaging)
• Ensure delivery supports:
  • Scope 3 targets
  • Customer requirements
  • Ecolabels and certifications (e.g., EPEAT, TCO)

3. Supplier Engagement Through Sourcing Strategy

• Drive supplier decarbonization through strategic sourcing alignment:
  • Partner with Responsible Sourcing, Procurement, Climate, Circularity, and CREWS SMEs
  • Focus on orchestration rather than direct technical ownership
• Orchestrate deep, coordinated supplier engagement:
  • Mobilize subject matter experts across key domains
  • Align supplier asks across:
    • Renewable electricity
    • Carbon data and reporting
    • Circularity and operational improvements
    • Human rights and compliance
  • Ensure streamlined, non-duplicative supplier experience
• Ensure supplier programs deliver:
  • Clear expectations and adoption pathways
  • Coordinated outreach across HP functions
  • Alignment to scorecards, surveys, and reporting systems

4. Decarbonization Cost Strategy & Financial Optimization

• Lead development of strategies to redefine and lower the cost of decarbonization, improving affordability of Net Zero goals
• Evaluate financial trade-offs across key levers:
  • RECs vs PPAs vs VPPAs vs onsite generation
  • Carbon removal pathways (nature-based vs engineered)
  • Supplier vs operational investment strategies
• Develop expertise in advanced market strategies, including:
  • Direct development of projects
  • Co-investment models
  • Long-term offtake or ownership approaches
• Translate financial insights into:
  • Sourcing strategies
  • Executive decision frameworks
  • Market and customer narratives

5. Operational Decarbonization Alignment (CREWS Integration)

• Partner with CREWS to align:
  • Renewable energy sourcing strategy
  • Operational emissions reductions
• Ensure operational actions:
  • Support supplier engagement (“lead by example”)
  • Enable customer commitments
  • Strengthen external positioning

6. Customer & Market Integration (Carbon Sync)

• Integrate customer decarbonization requirements into:
  • Supplier strategies
  • Operational decisions
  • Reporting and data flows
• Ensure consistency across:
  • Customer commitments
  • Certification requirements
  • External disclosures

7. Raters, Rankers, and Reporting Alignment

• Drive performance across:
  • EcoVadis, CDP, and ESG benchmarks
  • Ecolabels (EPEAT, TCO)
• Partner with Reporting teams to ensure:
  • Audit-ready, traceable data
  • Alignment between execution and disclosures
• Connect:
  • Program delivery → metrics → external reporting

8. Storytelling, Narrative, and Differentiation

• Develop integrated narratives connecting:
  • Customer outcomes
  • Supplier transformation
  • Operational leadership
• Translate technical work into:
  • Executive messaging
  • Customer differentiation
  • External storytelling
• Identify and scale distinctive HP narratives, including:
  • Value chain integration
  • Additionality leadership
  • Supplier engagement innovation

9. Industry Partnerships & External Learning

• Serve as the lead for industry engagement and learning
• Build and manage partnerships across:
  • Renewable energy alliances
  • Carbon removal ecosystems
  • Supply chain decarbonization consortia
• Leverage partnerships to:
  • Bring leading practices into HP
  • Influence industry standards
  • Unlock new models for cost reduction and scalability

10. Cross-Functional Orchestration (E2E Model)

• Coordinate across:
  • Climate
  • Responsible Sourcing
  • Circularity (operational focus)
  • CREWS
  • Digital/Reporting (FDL, SIRA, Resilinc)
• Simplify the end-to-end Supplier → Operations → Customer → Reporting pathway
• Establish governance, cadence, and accountability across an ad hoc, matrixed team

Scope & Impact

• Direct impact on:
  • HP’s Net Zero 2040 pathway (with emphasis on Scope 3)
  • Customer-facing sustainability differentiation
  • Supplier transformation at scale
  • External ratings, certifications, and reporting credibility
• Acts as:
  • Enterprise integrator across sustainability workstreams
  • Key enabler of both execution and external positioning

Qualifications

• 10–15+ years experience in sustainability, sourcing strategy, climate, or enterprise operations
• Deep expertise in:
  • Scope 3 decarbonization
  • Renewable energy markets and carbon strategies
  • Supplier engagement and sourcing integration
• Strong experience in:
  • Financial trade-offs in decarbonization
  • Operating model design and cross-functional integration
  • Translating technical work into business outcomes and narratives
• Proven ability to:
  • Lead without authority
  • Influence senior stakeholders
  • Drive outcomes across complex, distributed environments

Leadership Profile

• Integrator-first: connects siloed systems into one model
• Externally oriented: focused on customers, markets, and reputation
• Strategic operator: balances execution and financial optimization
• Story-driven: translates complexity into differentiation
• Influencer at scale: mobilizes teams across the enterprise

Success Metrics

• Delivery of integrated decarbonization aligned to Net Zero 2040
• Progress on Scope 3 emissions and supplier renewable energy adoption
• Improved cost efficiency of decarbonization pathways
• Strong performance in CDP, EcoVadis, and ecolabel certifications
• Reduction of fragmented supplier engagement
• Delivery of clear, differentiated sustainability narratives for HP
• Consistent, audit-ready data and reporting outputs

Disclaimer
• This job description describes the general nature and level of work performed in this role. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, skills, responsibilities, knowledge, etc. These may be subject to change and additional functions may be assigned as needed by management.

Salary

The pay range for this role is $105,050 to $161,800 USD annually with additional opportunities for pay in the form of bonus and/or equity (applies to United States of America candidates only). Pay varies by work location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits:

HP offers a comprehensive benefits package for this position, including:

• 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 (US benefits overview)

The compensation and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. The Company reserves the right to modify this information at any time, with or without notice, subject to applicable law.

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