Director Sustainability Innovation

• 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.

This role creates positive change by identifying and operationalizing new technologies to help achieve Republic's 2030 Sustainability Goals, advancing circularity and decarbonization efforts to create a more sustainable world.

• 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.
• 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).

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:

• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
• Employee discount programs.
• Retirement plan with a generous company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).

Republic Services, Inc. is a leader in the environmental services industry providing recycling, waste, special waste, hazardous waste and field services. Their industry-leading commitments to advance circularity and support decarbonization are helping deliver on their vision to partner with customers to create a more sustainable world.