Global Product Sustainability Lead

As a key player in Emerson's sustainability initiatives, you will lead the integration of sustainable design strategies across Emerson, driving efforts to reduce emissions and enhance product circularity. You'll oversee the global product carbon footprint program and collaborate with supply chain teams to improve sustainable procurement and transportation practices. This role demands a strategic thinker with a passion for sustainability, a strong technical background, and excellent communication skills.

You will have the opportunity to shape the future of sustainable design within Emerson, driving innovation through research collaborations and staying at the forefront of industry trends. Your ability to manage multiple projects, influence global teams, and convey complex sustainability concepts will be key to your success in this dynamic and impactful position.  
** _This position can be based in any major Emerson BU HQ location in the United States, enabling the successful candidate to partner with global teams while remaining connected to one of our key office locations._*
* ** In This Role, Your Responsibilities Will Be:*
* + Sustainable Product and Packaging Design

+ Lead the development and drive the adoption of sustainable product and packaging design strategies throughout the company and support product development teams in implementing actions to reduce emissions and improve product circularity.

+ Work with the product environmental compliance team to integrate regulatory considerations into Emerson's sustainable product and packaging design strategy and guidelines.

+ Collaborate with engineering teams to execute improvement projects that can serve as best practice examples.

+ Continue to enhance Emerson's sustainable new product and packaging design guidelines.

+ Identify and prioritize cross-business strategic design initiatives that can deliver material sustainability impact at scale across multiple product lines.

+ Keep abreast of external sustainable product and packaging design trends and actively participate in external expert industry forums.

+ Product Carbon Footprint Program and Reporting

+ Oversee the activities of the central team conducting product carbon footprint analyses.

+ Provide technical expertise to business-unit teams and collaborate with them in research and specific projects during a project's execution.

+ Help lead and expand Emerson's global product carbon footprint program by:

+ Continuing to improve internal methodologies and external communication collateral in alignment with external best practices and regulatory requirements.

+ Streamlining processes to reduce project timelines while maintaining high-quality outputs.

+ Working with the IT team to develop a longer-term data architecture plan to scale the product carbon footprint program globally.

+ Supporting vendor selection for Emerson's longer-term product carbon footprint program.

+ Driving the adoption of product carbon footprint analyses across Emerson's major product lines globally.

+ Building relationships with external experts and partners.

+ Collaborate with Scope 3 team to improve data quality and forecasting using PCF insights.

+ Train and support sales and marketing teams to ensure effective communication of results to external.

+ Data Strategy and Governance

+ Assess and benchmark the data maturity of business units to evaluate readiness for PCF calculations, identify gaps in data availability, quality, and systems, and define actionable roadmaps to improve data readiness and enable scalable deployment.

+ Act as the primary liaison to the enterprise product data program, ensuring alignment between product sustainability needs and broader data strategy.

+ Translate PCF requirements into clear data specifications and ensure integration into Emerson's product data architecture in collaboration with IT and PEC.

+ Monitor and assess Product Category Rules (PCRs) and relevant external standards to determine applicability across Emerson's portfolio and ensure methodological consistency.

+ Supply Chain Support

+ Collaborate with the Responsible Sourcing team to improve primary data collection practices from suppliers to…