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(Ideally this role will be based in the UK or Switzerland - but applications will be considered throughout Europe. Sponsorship/relocation is not available for this post)
What you'll do
Within the Corporate Sustainability’s Environmental Management team, the Net-Zero Project Expert actively contributes to the success of SAP’s environmental sustainability strategy and performance. In this role, you steer and drive the execution of SAP’s Net-Zero program, all related targets, sub-projects and initiatives.
The role requires strong thought leadership skills to understand future environmental trends and needs for our customers, partners, and respective SAP business units. You collaborate closely with key C-Level stakeholders and executives to drive SAP-wide support for environmental standards, programs, processes, and tools.
Your tasks include the following:
- Drive SAP’s environmental transformation programs to ensure SAP meets its commitments outlined in the SAP Global Environmental Policy.
- Manage Net-Zero 2030 program, key initiatives, and work-streams with lines of business.
- Provide thought leadership for environmental focus areas, such as carbon and energy.
- Develop global roadmaps and investment cases for the implementation of nature-based solutions and technical removal technologies for SAP’s own operations.
- Act as a trusted thought leader and build deep trust relationship with internal stakeholders, partners, NGOs, and customers.
- Inspire senior leaders and executives from all internal lines of business to embed environmental actions in their day-to-day operations, initiatives, and leadership behaviours.
- Represent SAP internally and externally as a role model for environmental management.
What you bring
- University degree in business administration, natural sciences, business informatics, or sustainability management.
- Very solid working experience with proven track record in consulting, project management, and customer advisory.
- Experience in complex program management with Executive Board visibility
- Very good knowledge of environmental opportunities, challenges, and legal regulations and standards (e.g., EU Taxonomy / Sustainable Finance, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive / CSRD, CSRD, Greenhouse Gas Protocol, SBTi).
- Ability to craft and communicate vision and strategy effectively to SAP teams, partners, and customers.
- Strong negotiation, facilitation and influencing skills with the ability to articulate and present to C-Level executives, as well as the ability to shape customer expectations.
- Strong leadership skills, intercultural sensitivity, and strength to influence without authority.
- Excellent and fluent English skills, both written and spoken, German skills would be beneficial.
Meet your Team
Supporting SAP’s purpose to help the world run better and improving people’s lives, the global Corporate Sustainability Team is on a mission to transform SAP to a role model of a sustainable company and create positive economic, environmental, and social impact within planetary boundaries. The team collaborates with all internal lines of business and works on embedding sustainability further into SAP’s corporate strategy, product and service portfolio, policies, processes, practices, and everything we do. This means improving the sustainability performance of our own operations, driving customer impact creation, and stimulating new sustainability initiatives across the organization. We warmly invite you to become part of our team and shape SAP’s sustainability journey together with us.
The Sustainability Team offers you to…
- work with a self-managing team who is supportive, passionate about their work and eager to initiate and embrace positive change.
- become part of a highly dynamic, important, and demanding professional field.
- expand your professional network by collaborating with diverse, international stakeholders.
- gain and share valuable insights across a broad variety of sustainability topics ranging from climate action, circular economy, holistic steering, and reporting to ethical business practices.
- increase your project management skills and expand your professional network.
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.
We win with inclusion
SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team:
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Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.
Requisition ID: 418953 | Work Area: Finance | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.
