Director Sustainability Innovation

Overview

Lead sustainability tech innovation, strategy, and commercialization to meet 2030 goals.

Key Responsibilities

• network building
• tech scouting
• business modeling
• r&d partnership
• team leadership
• innovation governance

Tasks

-Establish an active and actionable global network of internal and external subject matter experts to collaboratively innovate and co-innovate existing and new offerings with speed to market, optimum design and to maximize efficiencies. -Lead the monitoring of the external environment and market assessment of new technology ensuring awareness and identification worldwide while developing innovative partnerships with external partners. -Create viable business models that lead to commercialization strategies for new and mature innovations. -Partner with R&D in the discovery and scaling of market-led emerging technologies. Identify and evaluate to leverage Republic’s core competencies and solve customer needs. -Partner with Business Development and other internal resources in Business Case Development. -Support the Emerging Business Development team on executing our acquisition pipeline. -Develop and lead a team of highly skilled development managers to deliver business outcomes as well as ensuring a robust talent pipeline. -Assess macro market and technology trends, customer insights, and business objectives to identify unmet customer needs and underserved markets to drive innovation and enhanced sustainability opportunities and priorities. -Develop technology innovation governance structure to fit in line with program delivery methodologies to screen and validate opportunities though use cases, testing and rework. -Promote the Company’s innovation agenda; influence and obtain support from business leaders and senior management for successful execution of the agenda.

Requirements

• 10 years
• cleantech
• financial acumen
• project management
• executive exposure
• cross-functional

What You Bring

-Ten years of relevant work experience in innovation identification and investment, corporate strategy and/or strategy consulting experience, and/or business development expertise working experience. -Excellent knowledge of key trends in technology and innovation (i.e. Clean Technology). -Engaging presentation and/or storytelling skills. -Ability to travel: Up to 50% (domestic and potential for international). -Excellent analytical, financial acumen, project management and influencing skills; -High ambiguity tolerance and interest in developing adjacent businesses. -Cross-functional relationship skills with experience of leading in a matrix organization highly desired. -Proven ability to take projects from idea to commercial success. -Excellent communication and presentation skills. -Five years of management experience. -3+ years executive-level exposure (i.e. comfort in front of and experience working directly with executive and board-level committees) is preferred.

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Benefits

-Health care and dependent care spending accounts. -Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). -Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage. -Employee discount programs. -Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance. -Great Place to Work -Retirement plan with a generous company match. -Short- and long-term disability. -Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).

About Republic Services

-It operates collection, transfer, recycling centers, landfills and energy‑from‑waste facilities across the U.S. -Typical projects include curbside residential pickup, commercial/industrial waste hauling, recycling operations and landfill gas‑to‑energy plants. -Specialisms span residential and commercial collection, industrial waste services, recycling processing, hazardous waste treatment, and renewable energy generation.

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