Sustainability Director, North America (Cambridge, MA or Nashville, TN)

Philips • Nashville, TN

26d • Onsite

About The Position

The Sustainability Director, North America is responsible for developing and executing the department’s strategic plan and vision, integrating sustainability strategies and policies across Business Units (BU) to achieve organizational success. The role leads sustainability projects with Business Units, customers and partners, ensuring alignment with environmental, economic, and social performance criteria and compliance with environmental and related regulations. The role also ensures that policies reflect industry standards and drive a culture of sustainability through overseeing training and awareness programs for employees. Your role: Lead customer and partner engagement across North America (NA), ensuring sustainability and access to care priorities actively influence pipeline progression, solution design, and deal outcomes. You will consult with Sales, support Request for Proposal (RFP) responses, and help quantify how Philips solutions advance customer commitments such as emissions reduction, NetZero targets, and improved access. Additionally, monitor the adoption of sustainability-enabled solutions across the region and use customer insights to shape BU sustainability strategies, ensuring our approach reflects real-world needs. Steer measurable impact through programs that improve environmental performance, advance access and rural health initiatives and demonstrate clear pre/post value. You will analyze customers’ sustainability commitments, identifying opportunities to support their goals, and ensuring pilot implementations show tangible improvements in environmental footprint, access to care, cost of healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. You will provide expert guidance to both businesses and customers, integrating sustainability principles into strategic planning, decision-making, and solution development while ensuring projects meet environmental, social and economic performance criteria from conception through to completion. Operationally, you strengthen regional capabilities by delivering training, enablement of assets, and cross functional support that elevate the organization’s sustainability maturity. In addition, you will oversee training and certification for Sales and Account Executive (AE) teams, develop playbooks and tools to improve customer engagement quality, and ensure timely delivery of sustainability enhancements requested by the market. You will lead North America thought leadership efforts, support policy and regulatory engagements, cultivate strategic partnerships with health systems, NGOs, payers, and agencies, and contribute to media and content development that elevates Philips’ reputation as a sustainability leader. Through this work, you help set and execute the strategic vision for Sustainability in NA, positioning the function as a key driver of long-term organizational success.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience with a Bachelor's OR 6+ years of experience with Master's in areas such as Sustainability, Environmental Management, Corporate Social Responsibility or equivalent.
• Environmental and social sustainability expertise
• Strong analytics and ability to leverage large data sets
• Business acumen, strategy and transformation
• Partnerships and multi-stakeholder management
• Leading without authority
• Business and impact development skillset
• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Sustainability, Environmental Science or equivalent.
• Must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position.
• Excellent communicator and team player; able to take a lead or support the team to achieve a complex goal; has a strong strategic thinking skills and yet pragmatism to enable implementation
• US work authorization is a precondition of employment.
• For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Nashville, TN or Cambridge, MA.

Nice To Haves

• MD or PhD is a plus

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the department’s strategic plan and vision.
• Integrate sustainability strategies and policies across Business Units (BU) to achieve organizational success.
• Lead sustainability projects with Business Units, customers and partners, ensuring alignment with environmental, economic, and social performance criteria and compliance with environmental and related regulations.
• Ensure that policies reflect industry standards and drive a culture of sustainability through overseeing training and awareness programs for employees.
• Lead customer and partner engagement across North America (NA), ensuring sustainability and access to care priorities actively influence pipeline progression, solution design, and deal outcomes.
• Consult with Sales, support Request for Proposal (RFP) responses, and help quantify how Philips solutions advance customer commitments such as emissions reduction, NetZero targets, and improved access.
• Monitor the adoption of sustainability-enabled solutions across the region and use customer insights to shape BU sustainability strategies, ensuring our approach reflects real-world needs.
• Steer measurable impact through programs that improve environmental performance, advance access and rural health initiatives and demonstrate clear pre/post value.
• Analyze customers’ sustainability commitments, identifying opportunities to support their goals, and ensuring pilot implementations show tangible improvements in environmental footprint, access to care, cost of healthcare delivery and patient outcomes.
• Provide expert guidance to both businesses and customers, integrating sustainability principles into strategic planning, decision-making, and solution development while ensuring projects meet environmental, social and economic performance criteria from conception through to completion.
• Strengthen regional capabilities by delivering training, enablement of assets, and cross functional support that elevate the organization’s sustainability maturity.
• Oversee training and certification for Sales and Account Executive (AE) teams, develop playbooks and tools to improve customer engagement quality, and ensure timely delivery of sustainability enhancements requested by the market.
• Lead North America thought leadership efforts, support policy and regulatory engagements, cultivate strategic partnerships with health systems, NGOs, payers, and agencies, and contribute to media and content development that elevates Philips’ reputation as a sustainability leader.
• Help set and execute the strategic vision for Sustainability in NA, positioning the function as a key driver of long-term organizational success.

Benefits

• Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees