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Position Overview:

Join Amcor and you can be part of the team that makes the packaging of the future better for people and our planet.

Here at Amcor, we work together every day to make a positive impact on the lives of millions of people across the globe by providing packaging for essential products, including food, beverages, pharmaceutical, medical, home and personal-care. Our products are vital to support the lives of millions of people across the globe every day.

We are sustainability leaders in our industry. We are the first global packaging company to commit to make all our products recyclable or reusable by 2025. We are always looking for talented and passionate individuals who are motivated to make a difference. Working at Amcor means you will have a unique opportunity to be a part of an organisation that is committed to innovating and driving new solutions to create more sustainable packaging solutions. To find out more about our commitment to sustainability and about Amcor, visit www.amcor.com.

Position Overview:

The sustainability function plays a key role in positioning Amcor as THE leading packaging company for the environment delivering on Amcor’s sustainability strategy and as a supplier of choice for responsible packaging.

The Manager, Sustainability will support the deployment and execution of Amcor’s sustainability initiatives and objectives. This position will also be responsible for the tracking of sustainability metrics and reporting out those results to the senior leadership.

The role will serve as a central point of contact and support for Amcor’s global Business Groups; acting as a subject matter expert and resource and key contact to ensure appropriate support for the business and ensure that Amcor’s sustainability agenda and goals are achieved.

Essential Responsibilities and Duties: 

Strategy Execution:

• Aligned with our ‘Being Amcor’ model, lead and execute the Amcor overall sustainability strategy. Help the Business Groups develop and implement sustainability action plans.
• Ensure that sustainability initiatives within assigned business groups are in alignment with the broader company sustainability framework.
• Align with the global Vice President of Sustainability on key metrics and track metrics monthly. Report out of metrics to Amcor leadership teams.

Program Management:

• Secures and leverages senior level commitment and engagement for integrating sustainable development into core business processes and decision-making.
• Collaborates with internal business functions (product development, sales/commercial, innovation, operations, engineering, procurement, communications) to execute a coordinated sustainability plan.
• Develop documents & presentations to help support Commercial meetings and customer sustainability expectations
• Work with the Sr. Director of Communications to help develop communication campaigns to publicize the company’s sustainability efforts and promote broad awareness of sustainability initiatives.
• Serves as the internal leader and “go to” expert for sustainability, monitoring emerging trends, programs and issues, and communicating and educating others on sustainability topics through internal communication channels.

Technical:

• Drives Business Group’s progress toward EnviroAction goals, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste to disposal, and water use. Ensures accurate and timely monthly reporting. Offers expertise and provides leadership-level support for initiatives to reduce company-wide resource consumption and waste generation.

Industry & Group Partnership:

• Participate in external and external meetings when Sustainability is an agenda topic.
• Builds effective partnerships with external organizations through the Amcor Sustainability Partners Program and appropriate business functional leaders to support sustainability efforts.
• Represents Amcor and asserts company interests within appropriate industry organizations.

Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Environmental Science, or Engineering, Master’s Degree preferred
• Minimum 6 years of experience in engineering or business positions related to improving the sustainability profile of manufactured products, preferably plastics
• Direct knowledge of the commercial and regulatory landscape of the secondary market of recycled materials
• Knowledge of the industry associations and lobby groups involved in the waste collection secondary market industry
• Familiar with the waste collection, processing and sale industry structure and support Amcor’s global ambition to create a plastics circular economy
• Demonstrated professional work characteristics including high initiative, dependability, and credibility
• Excellent program/project management experience (PMP certification is preferred)
• Able to differentiate between conflicting priorities and issues to identify underlying causes
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint software
• Ability to maintain and deal with confidential information
• Must be well organized and comfortable interfacing with all levels of management
• Plans, organizes, and controls large work volume in fast-paced environment
• Demonstrated ability to work with minimal supervision

Amcor is a thriving S&P 500 organisation listed both on the NYSE (AMCR) and ASX (AMC) with US$13 billion in sales. We have a proud history dating back to the 1860’s and come a long way from a single paper mill based in Melbourne to becoming the global leading packaging company. Today, Amcor is an international organisation empowering its 46,000 employees in over 40 countries and across 225 sites.

At Amcor we believe in talent through diversity and promote equal opportunity in the workplace and recognise that discrimination and harassment of co-workers based on race, creed, disability, gender, marital or maternity status, religious or political beliefs, age or sexual orientation is unlawful.

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