Sustainability Manager

Interface is a global flooring solutions company and sustainability leader, offering an integrated portfolio of carpet tile and resilient flooring products that includes Interface® carpet tile and LVT, nora® rubber flooring, and FLOR® premium area rugs for commercial and residential spaces. Made with purpose and without compromise, Interface flooring brings more sophisticated design, more performance, more innovation, and more climate progress to interior spaces. A decades-long pioneer in sustainability, Interface remains “all in” on becoming a restorative business. Today, the company is focusing on carbon reductions, not offsets, as it works toward achieving its verified science-based targets by 2030 and its goal to become a carbon negative enterprise by 2040.

Position summary: 

As a member of the Global Market Sustainability Team, the Sustainability Manager - (North America) will serve as the primary brand figure and market sustainability expert for activities in the region and as part of the global team.

The candidate should have 5+ years of experience in a sustainability or tangential role and be highly skilled in communication and collaboration. This individual must be able to command everchanging and challenging subject matter, educate effectively, field questions and manage objections. The ideal candidate has experience navigating broad sustainability topics in writing and with live audiences, small and large and will make connections between customers’ sustainability commitments and Interface’s corporate sustainability leadership and product offering. This person will collaborate with the salespeople and management on account strategy as it relates to sustainability and ensure that Interface continues to have specifiable differentiation in the market, thus leading to top line sales growth. Additional responsibilities include circular economy market expansion and NGO committee participation both of which shape the market at mitigate financial and brand risk.

Content development and delivery objectives: 

• Leverage our mission for brand leadership awareness in marketplace
• Support salespeople’s ability to drive specifications via sustainability
• Understand detailed product and building certifications like LEED, WELL, LBC, C2C, Declare, BREEAM and articulate how our products meet such standards
• Shape presentation and event content relative to sustainability
• Act as a team member for curriculum curation for sales education and customer training

Essential duties:

• Primary team member for business development activities

• Public speaking and written communication around challenging sustainability topics
• Collaboration with internal departments including, but not limited to: Technical Sustainability Team, Supply Chain, Marketing, Communications, Sales, Global Accounts, Contracts, Innovation/Product Development, and Human Resources/Training
• Provide training and tools to help sales leverage our sustainability leadership to pursue and close sales 
• Tight collaboration with sales and sales management
• Identify, vet, and develop market-based circular economy opportunities leverage with customers and de-risk an everchanging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) policy landscape, represent region in global circular economy strategy development
• Maintain extensive network of other sustainability experts, customers including design principals and leaders withing end users via Salesforce and LinkedIn
• Perform other duties as assigned in an ever-changing landscape

Work environment: 
Office
Travel varies and can be up to 40% in a given month

Work experience: 
5+ years in similar role 

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