Senior Director, Customer Sustainability

Senior Director, Customer Sustainability

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. We know we have something special. Behind our customers – amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life‑saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility – our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Rockwell Automation is looking for a Senior Director, Customer Sustainability, to join our global sustainability organization. In this role, you are responsible for developing, leading, and implementing our global customer sustainability strategy and initiative, and leading the team for executing Rockwell’s customer sustainability strategy. Reporting to the Vice President, Sustainability, you will manage meeting business development goals, internal and external responsibilities, and help communicate priorities with stakeholders.

You will help drive innovation across our internal operations and collaborate on our ESG commitments and ESG strategy for our customers. This will require internal business unit collaboration, influencing product strategy and roadmaps, thought leadership for us and growing Rockwell’s revenue in the sustainability market. You will have experience and ability to strategize and implement high‑level program initiatives. This role will be based in a Rockwell office in either Milwaukee, WI, Mayfield Heights, OH or Houston, TX on a hybrid office schedule.

• Forward‑thinking and visionary leader, responsible for developing and leading our core and extended customer sustainability organization that builds and drives new sustainable revenue growth.
• Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers and employees to address sustainability issues, trends and disruptions in the technical business environment.
• Work together with the business unit to influence product strategy and roadmaps to develop new and existing sustainability offerings meeting customers’ growing needs.
• Monitor trends and evolving expectations and their impact on RA strategy and priorities. Assess markets and opportunities and build long‑term strategies to accelerate growth – including build, partner, buy analysis, joint value propositions and go‑to‑market plans.
• Collaborate with GSM to develop the appropriate go‑to‑market strategies and ensure plans, resources, and findings are secured to execute them.
• Lead active thought leadership in industry consortia and standards.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.
• Travel of 30%, including both domestic and international travel.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related discipline.
• Minimum of 12 years of work experience with people‑leadership experience.
• Advanced degree/MBA.
• Current or previous industrial automation sales experience and sales leadership experience.
• International work experience or leading a global team in sales, sustainability or a combination of both.
• Capability to work dynamically and collaboratively across multiple teams and projects in a technical business environment.
• An external network of sustainability peers in companies, government, academia and the non‑profit sector.
• Progressive leadership and decision‑making experience in a complex multi‑stakeholder working environment.

• Health Insurance (Medical, Dental and Vision).
• 401(k).
• Paid Time Off.
• Parental and Caregiver Leave.
• Flexible Work Schedule that can adapt to your personal life.
• Access to our benefits package – visit  for more details.

At Rockwell Automation, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

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Rockwell Automation’s hybrid policy aligns that employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays unless they have a business obligation out of the office.