Director Sustainability Innovation

Republic Services•Phoenix, AZ

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About The Position

The Director of Sustainability Innovation will be responsible for providing leadership and strategic direction to identify, innovate, evaluate, and validate potential new technologies that can be operationalized and commercialized to create breakthrough and transformative growth to help achieve Republic’s 2030 Sustainability Goals. The incumbent will operate with a high degree of cross-functional agility using outstanding influencing and interpersonal skills to conceptualize, develop and lead the innovation roadmap that will help evolve the Company from incremental improvements of the business core to high impact value creating products with innovative technologies using continuous discovery and delivery.

Requirements

Ten years of relevant work experience in innovation identification and investment, corporate strategy and/or strategy consulting experience, and/or business development expertise working experience.
Five years of management experience.

Nice To Haves

3+ years executive-level exposure (i.e. comfort in front of and experience working directly with executive and board-level committees) is preferred.
Excellent knowledge of key trends in technology and innovation (i.e. Clean Technology).
Excellent analytical, financial acumen, project management and influencing skills; Proven ability to take projects from idea to commercial success.
High ambiguity tolerance and interest in developing adjacent businesses.
Excellent communication and presentation skills.
Cross-functional relationship skills with experience of leading in a matrix organization highly desired.
Engaging presentation and/or storytelling skills.
Ability to travel: Up to 50% (domestic and potential for international).

Responsibilities

Lead the monitoring of the external environment and market assessment of new technology ensuring awareness and identification worldwide while developing innovative partnerships with external partners.
Establish an active and actionable global network of internal and external subject matter experts to collaboratively innovate and co-innovate existing and new offerings with speed to market, optimum design and to maximize efficiencies.
Assess macro market and technology trends, customer insights, and business objectives to identify unmet customer needs and underserved markets to drive innovation and enhanced sustainability opportunities and priorities.
Develop technology innovation governance structure to fit in line with program delivery methodologies to screen and validate opportunities though use cases, testing and rework.
Partner with Business Development and other internal resources in Business Case Development.
Partner with R&D in the discovery and scaling of market-led emerging technologies.
Identify and evaluate to leverage Republic’s core competencies and solve customer needs.
Create viable business models that lead to commercialization strategies for new and mature innovations.
Support the Emerging Business Development team on executing our acquisition pipeline.
Nurture a culture of customer obsession, entrepreneurism and innovation.
Promote the Company’s innovation agenda; influence and obtain support from business leaders and senior management for successful execution of the agenda.
Perform other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.
Develop and lead a team of highly skilled development managers to deliver business outcomes as well as ensuring a robust talent pipeline.