Vice President of Sustainability Engagement

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Position Overview

Shaw Industries Group Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design innovation and operational excellence the company takes a people-centered customer-focused and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex COREtec Shaw Floors Patcraft Philadelphia Commercial Shaw Contract Shaw Sports Turf Shawgrass Southwest Greens Watershed Geo and more. Headquartered in Dalton Georgia Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18000 associates worldwide.

Position Summary

Shaws corporate sustainability team helps create a competitive advantage for Shaw and its brands through sustainability leveraging market insights and technical expertise to inform influence and support business decisions.

The Vice President of Sustainability Engagement acts as a liaison with Shaws sustainability team its brand leaders and external stakeholders including customers business partners membership organizations and target media. This role deepens customer relationships helps translate sustainability into business value for our customers gathers market insights stays abreast of emerging trends and represents Shaw in internal and external forums to effectively communicate Shaws sustainability strategy progress and key programs.

Reporting to the Vice President of Global Sustainability this role contributes to the continued development and evolution of Shaws enterprise sustainability strategy by connecting customer priorities market intelligence and strategic relationships with business objectives. Working through influence and partnership this leader collaborates across the sustainability team sales marketing business units and external stakeholders to strengthen Shaws reputation deepen customer relationships and support long-term business success.

Key Areas of Responsibility

Strategic Customer & Market Engagement

Strengthen Shaws strategic relationships with customers business partners and industry influencers while helping the organization translate sustainability into meaningful business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Build trusted executive-level relationships with customers A&D firms end users strategic partners and industry influencers to strengthen Shaws market position and sustainability leadership.

• Partner with business leaders to help the organization capture the value of Shaws sustainability strategy while translating that value into meaningful outcomes for customers and the marketplace.

• Represent Shaw at executive customer engagements conferences industry events and strategic forums as a credible sustainability ambassador.

Market Intelligence & Strategic Insight

Continuously monitor evolving customer needs market trends and industry insights leveraging that market intelligence to strengthen Shaws sustainability strategy and business priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as corporate sustainabilitys primary connection to customers sales marketing and other key internal and external partners bringing meaningful insights back into the organization.

• Monitor emerging customer expectations competitive activity sustainability trends regulatory developments and partnership opportunities to identify opportunities and business risks.

• Translate market intelligence into actionable recommendations that help Shaw anticipate and prepare for change strengthen business strategy and lead through sustainability.

Sustainability Enablement & Business Partnership

Strengthen the organizations ability to understand communicate and leverage Shaws sustainability strategy across customer engagement business planning and market activation.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with sales marketing and business leadership to integrate sustainability into customer engagement and business strategy.

• Co-develop scalable tools educational resources engagement strategies and customer-facing resources with Shaws business and brand sustainability teams to strengthen sustainability understanding and confidence across the organization.

• Serve as a trusted business partner who helps connect corporate sustainabilitys expertise with customer needs and business priorities.

Sustainability Story Alignment & Thought Leadership

Strengthen Shaws ability to communicate the value of its sustainability strategy through authentic visionary technically credible and customer-relevant storytelling.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with corporate communications and marketing to shape and continuously evolve Shaws sustainability narrative in alignment with enterprise sustainability strategy.

• Help translate sustainability strategies and technical expertise into meaningful business stories that strengthen customer relationships reinforce Shaws reputation and support talent attraction and retention.

• Expand Shaws sustainability influence through strategic partnerships executive speaking engagements media opportunities industry events and thought leadership.

Strategic Partnerships & Industry Leadership

Build strategic partnerships that strengthen Shaws influence expand sustainability leadership and support long-term business success.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain relationships with key sustainability organizations industry associations certification bodies NGOs academic institutions and other strategic stakeholders.

• Partner with the Vice President of Global Sustainability to coordinate Shaws external engagement strategy and ensure the appropriate leaders are engaged in the right opportunities.

• Leverage strategic partnerships to strengthen Shaws market position identify collaboration opportunities and advance sustainability leadership across the industries Shaw serves.

Leadership & Enterprise Influence

Advance Shaws sustainability engagement capability by building trusted relationships strengthening collaboration and enabling the organization to realize greater value from its sustainability strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead with integrity credibility and influence building trusted partnerships and collaborating across corporate sustainability sales marketing business units and corporate functions consistently representing Shaws sustainability strategy.

• Contribute customer perspectives market intelligence and strategic insights that strengthen Shaws enterprise sustainability strategy and business priorities.

• Foster a culture of curiosity service collaboration continuous learning and optimism while continuously strengthening sustainability engagement capabilities and business impact.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Sustainability Environmental Science Engineering Business Marketing Communications or a related field. Advanced degree preferred.

• 10 yrs of sustainability customer engagement strategy etc. experience required.

• Progressive leadership experience in sustainability business strategy customer engagement consulting marketing product stewardship environmental leadership or a related discipline.

• Demonstrated ability to build trusted senior level relationships and influence customers business leaders and cross-functional teams through collaboration rather than formal authority.

• Established relationships within the built environment and sustainability communities with the ability to strengthen Shaws strategic partnerships and market influence.

• Strong foundation in sustainability principles combined with the business acumen to connect technical sustainability concepts with customer priorities market opportunities and business strategy.

• Demonstrated personal integrity and sound judgment with a track record of building trust through honest accurate and transparent communication.

• Experience developing trusted relationships with customers strategic partners industry organizations or other external stakeholders.

• Demonstrated business acumen with the ability to connect sustainability strategy to customer priorities market opportunities and business objectives.

• Exceptional written verbal and presentation communication skills with experience representing an organization in a variety of settings while engaging executive customer and industry audiences.

• Ability to travel as needed to support customer engagement strategic partnerships and industry leadership activities.

Preferred Experience

• 5 yrs of industry experience

• Sustainability consulting or enterprise sustainability transformation.

• Executive speaking media engagement or industry thought leadership.

• Active leadership within industry organizations and strategic sustainability partnerships.

Leadership Competencies

• Ensure a Customer-centric Approach

• Sell the Vision

• Demonstrate Strategic Influence

• Build Strategic Partnerships

• Coach and Develop Others

• Drive Execution

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