Sustainability Specialist (Finance)

Ashland Inc.

Are you the kind of person that is always thinking, sketching, seeking, and adjusting? Who needs to understand how things work and then figure out how they can work better? Are you a passionate, tenacious, solver who loves to work with others who share your drive? Are you positive, constructive, and ingenious? Are you always solving? Then we'd like to meet you and bet you'd like to meet us.

Ashland has an exciting opportunity for a Sustainability Specialist to join our Ashland LLC business. This is a very visible, significant role within the Company and the EHS function. This position will report to the Director of EHS and Sustainability.

This role will be responsible for supporting the sustainability program for Ashland, by leading and supporting initiatives to increase energy efficiency and reduce Ashland's environmental footprint, with a focus on water, energy, and hazardous waste. This will include but is not limited to mandatory and voluntary initiatives to identify and increase efficiency within Ashland's process, gaining and communicating an understanding unit and product level emissions intensity, and quantifying the impact of process changes and ongoing efficiency efforts. This role will work closely with global manufacturing sites to support commercial and internal requests and will help the sites strategically implement solutions. This role will also support and maintain several sustainability certifications where assistance is needed.

The responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop and support execution of an energy transition strategy to move towards renewable energy options with a reduced carbon footprint
• Understanding and support of global manufacturing programs with a focus on US sites- with frequent site visits
• Understand emerging voluntary reporting frameworks and emerging regulations and work with Ashland work groups to develop and implement strategic response plans.
• Communicate strategic initiatives related to sustainability
• Identify and communicate best practices across manufacturing locations to promote broader improvements
• Maintain sustainability certification programs, leading internal and response to external audits
• Respond to commercial requests as needed and support collection and communication of key sustainability metrics and data.
• Lead US work group with key stakeholders to support sustainability progress/programs
• Manage implementation of programs and initiatives to meet emerging sustainability requirements
• Communication champion who drives awareness and cross-team discussion of activities to support sustainability- develop and maintain information related to initiatives for visibility to site projects
• Participate in industry sustainability interest groups

In order to be qualified for this role, you must possess the following:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Engineering, Environmental Management, or an equivalent science
• 5-10 years experience in sustainability related programs in a manufacturing environment
• Strong background knowledge in sustainability programs and current/emerging compliance requirements
• Strong project management skills, ability to manage cross functional teams and organize, plan, and meet goals
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience in project management and continuous improvement
• Proficiency in SAP, MS office Suite, Sharepoint, and LCA software (SimaPro preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to work across functions and geographies

The following skill sets are preferred by the business:

• Experience with SimaPro

In more than 100 countries, the people of Ashland LLC. (NYSE: ASH) provide the specialty chemicals, technologies and insights to help customers create new and improved products for today and sustainable solutions for tomorrow. Our chemistry is at work every day in a wide variety of markets and applications, including architectural coatings, automotive, construction, energy, personal care and pharmaceutical. Visit www.ashland.com to see the innovations we offer.

At Ashland our vision is to be a leading, global specialty chemicals company whose inspired and engaged employees add value to all we touch. In fact our people, employees, customers and vendors define who we are. They are the driving force behind everything we do.

Not only do we value our customers but we value our employees, and we work to offer them a dynamic and challenging environment. We hold ourselves to high standards at Ashland, and we value integrity and honesty.

Ashland has a history of attracting the best people and keeping them. The reasons are simple: industry competitive salary and benefits, pay-for-performance incentive plans and a diverse work environment where employees feel challenged and valued. People come to Ashland and stay. As a growing Fortune 500 specialty chemicals company, we offer opportunities for development and advancement throughout our global organization. Our values define who we are and what we care about as a company. If you are looking for a relationship with a company instead of simply a job, this may be a great fit.

Ashland is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/Gender Identity/Sexual Orientation.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability. NOTE: We do not accept resumes from external staffing agencies or independent recruiters for any of our openings unless we have a signed recruiting agreement in place to fill a specific position.