Director, Impact & Sustainability, Global
Rosewood Hotels and Resorts
Job Description Impact of this roleYou will support the transformation of Rosewood Hotel Group into a purpose-driven company creating a future where people and place enrich one another. You will help embed positive environmental and social impact in business operations and drive greater understanding of our purpose-driven ambition. Reporting directly to the Vice President of Impact & Sustainability, you will be a key leader in progressing our profits-with-purpose agenda, with a strong focus on stakeholder management and internal communications. This role will give you a chance to be creative, exercise agility, and influence a wide range of stakeholders across a global portfolio.
Key Responsibilities• Strategy: Support the execution of a sustainability strategy that is fiscally sound and helps achieve our purpose across people and place, with a specific focus on business operations and planning.• Leadership: Support the socialization and execution of our impact and sustainability agenda across the group. - Drive collaboration between key departments to ensure we are moving lock-step towards the same goals. - Drive buy-in through raising awareness, inspiring, and engaging stakeholders to develop internal ownership of projects. Internal communication and stakeholder management will be key focuses for this role. - Bring collective intelligence into projects to resolve challenges and balance diverse interests to deliver win-win outcomes.• Management: Harness a growing network of impact and sustainability professionals at our hotels. • Program design: Design programs that (1) support our net zero ambition by bringing circular solutions to life and (2) enable equitable access to opportunity for all people in our ecosystem.• Partnerships: Identify and grow strategic partnerships with businesses, suppliers, producers, NGOs and others that align with our profits-with-purpose goals.• Measurement: Define, measure and report on concrete impact and sustainability KPIs across global property portfolio. Provide actionable recommendations to key stakeholders on property.• Innovation: Seek out innovations in the global impact space and seed across the group. Support our impact and sustainability strategy’s evolution by leveraging external insights and "outside-in" thinking. Deploy "inside out" thinking into customizing solutions.• Education: Lead the development and deployment of a groupwide core impact and sustainability learning program.
Skills, experience and mindset• Experienced professional who is passionate about catalysing transformation into a business-with-purpose. Must have direct or adjacent experience in sustainability and/or hospitality.• Strategic thinker who can see both the big picture and the frontline actions that will bring it to life.• Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex messages and adapt them to different audiences. Experience in marketing communications is highly desirable. • Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills to help build collaborations across departments and ensure a drumbeat rhythm of execution.• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a leadership role, ideally with a sustainability mandate.• Demonstrable experience in change management, oversight of projects, and managing people.• Experience of working across multiple geographies and markets. • Proficiency in analysing trends based on quantitative and qualitative data. • Hands-on executor who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get the job done.• Willingness to learn, adapt and grow within a new but critical function in a fast-growing company.• Experience with luxury brands is a plus.
Key Responsibilities• Strategy: Support the execution of a sustainability strategy that is fiscally sound and helps achieve our purpose across people and place, with a specific focus on business operations and planning.• Leadership: Support the socialization and execution of our impact and sustainability agenda across the group. - Drive collaboration between key departments to ensure we are moving lock-step towards the same goals. - Drive buy-in through raising awareness, inspiring, and engaging stakeholders to develop internal ownership of projects. Internal communication and stakeholder management will be key focuses for this role. - Bring collective intelligence into projects to resolve challenges and balance diverse interests to deliver win-win outcomes.• Management: Harness a growing network of impact and sustainability professionals at our hotels. • Program design: Design programs that (1) support our net zero ambition by bringing circular solutions to life and (2) enable equitable access to opportunity for all people in our ecosystem.• Partnerships: Identify and grow strategic partnerships with businesses, suppliers, producers, NGOs and others that align with our profits-with-purpose goals.• Measurement: Define, measure and report on concrete impact and sustainability KPIs across global property portfolio. Provide actionable recommendations to key stakeholders on property.• Innovation: Seek out innovations in the global impact space and seed across the group. Support our impact and sustainability strategy’s evolution by leveraging external insights and "outside-in" thinking. Deploy "inside out" thinking into customizing solutions.• Education: Lead the development and deployment of a groupwide core impact and sustainability learning program.
Skills, experience and mindset• Experienced professional who is passionate about catalysing transformation into a business-with-purpose. Must have direct or adjacent experience in sustainability and/or hospitality.• Strategic thinker who can see both the big picture and the frontline actions that will bring it to life.• Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to simplify complex messages and adapt them to different audiences. Experience in marketing communications is highly desirable. • Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills to help build collaborations across departments and ensure a drumbeat rhythm of execution.• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in a leadership role, ideally with a sustainability mandate.• Demonstrable experience in change management, oversight of projects, and managing people.• Experience of working across multiple geographies and markets. • Proficiency in analysing trends based on quantitative and qualitative data. • Hands-on executor who is not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get the job done.• Willingness to learn, adapt and grow within a new but critical function in a fast-growing company.• Experience with luxury brands is a plus.
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