HP

Senior Director – Sustainability Operations

HP

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Vancouver • Texas • Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $200,150 - $320,250 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
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