Sustainability Specialist - Commercial Execution

Sustainability Specialist - Commercial Execution

Requisition : 67792
Position Type: (US)
Full Time
Workplace Arrangement:

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

The Sustainability Specialist – Commercial Execution supports the implementation of sustainability in customer engagements, value propositions, and internal governance. The role focuses on executing established sustainability commercial processes, supporting quantified sustainability messaging, maintaining high-quality sustainability information systems, and improving visibility of sustainability’s contribution to commercial outcomes.

The role is customer-facing and builds capability in sustainability metrics, customer ESG requirements, CRM reporting, and cross-functional coordination, with exposure into more strategic sustainability value and impact work.

Note: Preference will be given to candidates within driving distance of our HQ in Beloit, WI.

What will you do?

Commercial Sustainability Enablement

Support the development and rollout of customer sustainability value propositions using approved data and messaging.

Provide sustainability insights, training, and technical support for customer engagements, proposals, and business opportunities.

• Work with Insights tools and team to showcase growth potential for customers with sustainability claims/ attributes by leveraging Kerry portfolio.

Develop decarbonization roadmaps for global and strategic customers in partnership with commercial teams.

Use customer insights and data analysis to strengthen sustainability value propositions and prioritize opportunities.

Sustainability Data, Metrics & Quantification

Apply sustainability metrics, including carbon, nature, and deforestation-free, to customer-facing materials.

• Gather, organize, and validate sustainability data across sustainability, R&D, operations, and regulatory teams.
• Build working knowledge of the organization’s sustainability measurement approaches, assumptions, and boundaries.
• Lead Carbon Guide validation in partnership with Global SME for accuracy.

Coordinate customer sustainability requests across commercial, R&D, Procurement, Regulatory, Legal, Operations, and Sustainability teams.

Complete customer sustainability questionnaires, RFIs, surveys, certifications, and related requests.

• Assist with customer requests within digital platforms, including administrative site linking, audit visibility, and internal coordination.
• Maintain tracking and documentation to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent responses.

Perform quality checks to ensure responses align with approved claims and supporting documentation.

Maintain a library of standard responses, data, and evidence to streamline future RFIs and questionnaires.

Sustainability Content Management

• Maintain approved sustainability content in content repositories (e.g., Seismic, SharePoint), ensuring materials are accurate, current, and aligned with the sustainability strategy.
• Support content updates following sustainability report releases, strategy refreshes, or new initiatives.
• Help commercial teams locate and correctly use approved sustainability materials.

Commercial Performance Tracking & CRM Reporting

Use CRM tools such as Salesforce to track and report sustainability-related commercial…