Government Relations Leader

Government Relations Leader

Location(s):
Toledo, OH, US, ;
Washington, DC, US

Function:
Legal

Audience:
Experienced Professional

Work Arrangement:
On Site

The Government Affairs Lead is an enterprise-level, strategic role responsible for maximizing Owens Corning's influence as a leading building products manufacturer across the policy and trade association landscape.

The role shapes and advances policy advocacy and trade association strategies that support long-term growth, protect market access, and reinforce Owens Corning's competitive advantages. This includes influencing legislative, regulatory, incentive-based, insurance-driven, and standards-based policy outcomes that directly affect the building products industry.

The position spans multiple businesses and trade associations and is a key enabler of Owens Corning's standardized operating model for external engagement, ensuring advocacy efforts are enterprise-aligned, intentional, scalable, and focused on the issues that matter most to the business.

• Owens Corning is positioned for maximum influence across trade associations, policy forums, and standards-based processes that are most critical to business performance.
• External engagement is enterprise-aligned, intentional, and repeatable, rather than dependent on individual roles or relationships.
• Business leaders have clear ownership of priorities and decisions, supported by strong enterprise-level governance, advocacy, and coordination.
• Policy objectives—whether legislative, regulatory, incentive-based, insurance-related, or standards-based—are integrated and mutually reinforcing, rather than operating in silos.
• Engagement intensity and focus are aligned to business priority, risk, and opportunity, not equally distributed across all issues or businesses.

• Develop and advance enterprise-level strategies for engaging trade associations as platforms for influence.
• Advise on governance structures, committee participation, leadership roles, and escalation pathways to ensure Owens Corning is positioned to shape outcomes.
• Align trade association engagement with enterprise priorities, business strategies, and long-range growth objectives.
• Partner with business leaders to determine where trade associations provide the greatest leverage against priority risks and opportunities.

• Monitor, analyze, and assess legislative, regulatory, and policy developments affecting Owens Corning's businesses, customers, and end markets.
• Partner with business leaders, Legal, Sustainability, and other functions to develop integrated advocacy strategies addressing key policy objectives, which may include:
  • manufacturing competitiveness and housing affordability
  • sustainability initiatives (e.g., recycled content, circularity, EPR)
  • incentives and tax credit structures
  • insurance-driven building requirements
  • building codes and product standards adoption
• Coordinate engagement through trade associations, coalitions, and external advisors to advance aligned policy outcomes.

• Provide enterprise-level policy insight, issue framing, and context to inform business-led prioritization and decision-making.
• Enable visibility, consistency, and alignment across businesses on policy and trade association activities.
• Support coordinated enterprise positions while respecting business ownership of priorities.

• Ensure adherence to lobbying, disclosure, and trade association governance requirements.
• Institutionalize scalable processes, playbooks, and engagement frameworks that support consistent execution across the enterprise.
• Strengthen continuity by reducing reliance on individual facilitation and enabling repeatable engagement approaches.
• Support effective knowledge transfer and role transitions related to policy and trade association engagement.

• Enterprise-level, multi-BU in scope
• Covers multiple trade associations and policy advocacy platforms
• Strategic in nature, with emphasis on direction, leverage, and influence, rather than…