Clarios is looking for a global sustainability leader to set the company’s roadmap and turn regulatory, customer, and investor expectations into decisions, targets, and funded plans. The role brings climate strategy, reporting, carbon accounting, and governance together, with a direct line to senior leadership on risks and trade-offs.
The work connects disclosure requirements with the realities of making and recovering batteries across a large industrial business. Clarios says it recovers, recycles, and reuses up to 99% of battery materials; this director’s agenda also addresses emissions from operations and the value chain, product carbon footprints, and readiness for expanding climate rules and external assurance. Credible, consistent data can support both accountability and commercial relationships.
This suits someone who has led reporting and Scope 1-3 accounting in a complex manufacturer, understands standards such as CSRD/ESRS and SBTi, and can guide specialists while gaining alignment across finance, operations, procurement, legal, and regional teams.
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What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The director would set Clarios’ enterprise sustainability roadmap, translating regulatory, customer, and investor expectations into priorities, owners, targets, and investment decisions. The scope combines climate strategy, carbon accounting, reporting, compliance readiness, and executive advice on risks and trade-offs.
A central responsibility is maintaining a governed, assurance-ready data set for the Scope 1-3 inventory, climate targets, and disclosures. The role also leads reporting and regulatory work, including CSRD/ESRS, California climate disclosure rules, ISSB-aligned reporting, CDP, and EcoVadis, while coordinating controls and external assurance.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The role offers direct experience integrating climate strategy, corporate reporting, and business planning in a global manufacturing company. The director could deepen expertise in applying CSRD/ESRS, ISSB, SBTi, GHG Protocol methods, and assurance requirements across multiple jurisdictions.
Close work with Finance, Internal Audit, Operations, Procurement, Legal, and executive leaders may build skills in data controls, decarbonization investment analysis, and communicating complex reporting decisions. Leading a team and representing Clarios with customers, assurers, and industry bodies could also extend leadership and external engagement experience.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
The posting calls for at least eight years in sustainability reporting, GHG accounting, climate strategy, or assurance, including ownership of a multi-site Scope 1-3 inventory and a published report or regulatory filing. Manufacturing or industrial experience is expected, with battery, metals, chemicals, or automotive supply experience an advantage.
A strong candidate would know the GHG Protocol, CSRD/ESRS and double materiality, SBTi, ISSB/IFRS S2, and external assurance processes. Quantitative skills, advanced Excel, and SQL or Python are requested, alongside experience building data governance with Finance and Internal Audit. The role also calls for people leadership, sound business judgment, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across functions.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Use the application to show direct ownership rather than general familiarity: describe the size and boundaries of a Scope 1-3 inventory, the reporting or filing delivered, and the candidate’s role in assurance and controls. Include examples of applying CSRD/ESRS, double materiality, SBTi, or ISSB requirements where relevant.
For interviews, prepare a concise example of turning a regulatory or customer request into a clear business decision, including data gaps, owners, costs, and trade-offs. Be ready to explain how emissions reductions could be modeled with operations and procurement in an industrial or battery value chain, and how you have built agreement across functions without direct authority.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role is likely to focus on climate measurement and disclosure across Clarios’ global operations and value chain. That includes Scope 1-3 accounting, energy and emissions baselines, SBTi targets, climate risk assessment, decarbonization planning, and product carbon footprints.
The company describes recovering, recycling, and reusing up to 99% of battery materials, so circularity forms relevant business context, though the listed role is weighted toward enterprise strategy, carbon, and reporting. Regulatory readiness, double materiality, disclosure controls, and assurance are also central sustainability concerns for this position.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
A key challenge could be obtaining consistent, reviewable data across sites, regions, and business functions while bringing multiple customer questionnaires and regulatory disclosures into one governed system. The role must prepare for differing and changing requirements, including European, U.S., and ISSB-aligned reporting.
Another challenge is connecting climate targets and reporting findings to practical investment decisions. Decarbonization options may require coordination with operations and procurement, while executive leaders need clear analysis of costs, risks, priorities, and trade-offs. Expanding assurance also raises expectations for evidence, controls, and documented review.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
A day could move between reviewing emissions or disclosure data, meeting with Finance, IT, Legal, or Internal Audit on reporting controls, and working with Operations or Procurement on baselines and abatement options. The director may also review regulatory developments and prepare a decision brief for senior leaders.
The schedule would vary with the reporting calendar, assurance cycle, and regulatory deadlines. At other times, it may include coaching team members, resolving data ownership questions with regional colleagues, or speaking with customers, external assurers, and industry groups.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
This position offers scope to develop from technical reporting and carbon accounting into enterprise sustainability strategy, executive decision support, and team leadership. Direct ownership of climate targets, regulatory readiness, and assurance could build expertise across the full cycle from measurement to business planning.
The global remit and access to senior leaders may also create opportunities to lead broader decarbonization or governance initiatives, or to move into wider sustainability, strategy, or ESG leadership roles. The posting does not specify a defined promotion path, so progression would depend on business needs and results.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
The director would work with Finance, Legal, Government Affairs, Procurement, Operations, Commercial, Internal Audit, IT, regional teams, and sustainability colleagues. Interactions would cover data ownership, reporting controls, climate plans, regulatory requirements, and resource decisions.
Senior leaders and relevant board or management committees would receive updates on performance, risks, readiness, and investment trade-offs. Outside the company, the role represents Clarios in discussions with customers, external assurers, investors, regulators, and industry bodies.
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