As the Sustainability Project Manager, you will serve as Dematic’s program integrator and regional sustainability lead, ensuring sustainability is embedded in Sales, Project Delivery, and customer engagements in a scalable and repeatable way. This role is responsible for translating customer sustainability requirements into executable plans, supporting Sales in competitive proposals, and institutionalizing lessons learned into standardized tools, playbooks, and processes.
This is a senior individual contributor role that combines Project management, cross-functional leadership, and customer-facing execution. You will bridge Sustainability, Sales, Solution Development, Engineering, and Project Management to ensure Dematic consistently meets (and exceeds) customer sustainability expectations—turning sustainability from ad-hoc support into a competitive, business-as-usual capability.
We offer:
Career Development
Competitive Compensation and Benefits
Pay Transparency
Global Opportunities
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Tasks and Qualifications:
Core Responsibilities
Sales & Proposal Sustainability Leadership
Lead sustainability responses for major RFPs and strategic sales pursuits, partnering with Sales, Solution Development, and Bid teams.
Influence Solution Development to integrate customer’s sustainability objectives into Dematic’s design proposal.
Develop compelling, accurate sustainability proposal content, including value propositions, compliance statements, and quantified impacts (e.g., energy efficiency, carbon footprint estimates).
Maintain and continuously improve a library of pre-approved sustainability content, metrics, and narratives to ensure consistency, quality, and speed in proposal development.
Coordinate with internal experts (e.g., R&D, Sustainability Data Specialist, Legal) to tailor sustainability inputs while ensuring accuracy and credibility.
Project Sustainability Delivery
Support the execution of sustainability commitments made during sales once a project is awarded as part of the overall customer project delivery team.
Engage at project kickoff to translate contractual sustainability requirements into clear deliverables, owners, and timelines.
Support Project Managers throughout the lifecycle to ensure sustainability deliverables (e.g., sustainability plans, monitoring data, end-of-project reports) are completed on time, to specification and with appropriate proof points/quantification of impacts.
Compile and deliver customer-facing sustainability outputs at project milestones.
Standardization & Playbook Development
Develop and maintain sustainability playbooks, templates, and tools that streamline future sales and project delivery (e.g., sustainability management plans, contract clause guidance, PM checklists, purchase order deliverable requirements).
Capture lessons learned from completed projects and institutionalize best practices into standard processes.
Integrate sustainability requirements into Dematic’s core sales and project management methodologies (e.g., bid review, DPROM) in collaboration with process owners.
Cross-Functional Initiative Leadership
Lead cross-functional sustainability initiatives that span multiple functions, such as new sustainability offerings, delivery models, or compliance processes.
Define objectives, scope, timelines, and stakeholder roles; coordinate inputs across Engineering, Procurement, Project Management, and Sustainability.
Deliver scalable solutions and transition long-term ownership to the appropriate teams once initiatives are operationalized.
Standards, Compliance & External Liaison
Act as Dematic’s subject-matter lead for sustainability standards impacting projects and products (e.g., customer sustainability scorecards, green building standards, EU regulations).
Advise Sales and Delivery teams on opportunities to align with customer sustainability goals and exceed customer expectations.
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