VP Commercial Sustainability Strategy & Business Development

Job Description

We are looking for an established leader interested in being part of our broad portfolio across various sectors and industries to lead, refine, and grow our Commercial Sustainability offering. You should have strategic and practical global leadership experience with a strong technical foundation. We seek an individual to help us drive the continued growth of UL Solutions' business through selling and delivering game changing sustainability solutions to deliver positive impacts via Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) needs of our customers. This role will span the breadth of the globe and partner across our Consumer and Industrial Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) businesses and collaborate fully with our Software & Advisory business, the Science & Operations organization, and other key stakeholder across the company. This key hire will also recruit and develop our next generation of leaders, and further advance our Commercial Sustainability solutions and capabilities to drive true value-creation for our customers.

The ideal candidate will be a thought leader who can also shape and deliver our strategy with a programmatic approach while driving new work revenues along with more value and share of wallet across our customers.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver Commercial Sustainability/ ESG value-creation solutions.
• Stakeholder engagement to identify environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities.
• Familiarity with governance structure, vision, and goals that are integrated into the company's value proposition.
• Experience developing and delivering frameworks, data, and disclosing sustainability performance.
• Actively develop commercial strategies to pursue and win new business opportunities that result in significant revenue growth with target areas.
• Provide business value selling at the top levels of client organizations, raising the profile of UL Solutions' capabilities within key client organizations, to identify and shape clients' needs for our services.
• Maintain pulse on industries and prioritize team efforts toward existing and new high potential opportunities.
• Broaden and deepen UL Solutions Commercial Sustainability brand and offerings by speaking at client events and publishing thought leadership materials, developing new service offerings, delivering high quality impactful solutions to our customers current and future needs.
• Work in a collaborative, cross-functional team environment to build UL Solutions Commercial Sustainability global business portfolio, as well as to lead cross-business success.
• Drive and achieve financial targets, customer satisfaction/expectations, and ultimately our brand in the marketplace.
• Manage financial forecasting and budgeting.
• Engage in "deep dives" with big and complex customers/associations

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required, MBA or relevant master's or other related advanced degrees preferred.
• 15+ years' progressive experience in a Sustainability/ESG, working at a high-level with corporate clients; proven knowledge and familiarity with current market services and solutions.
• In-depth understanding of Sustainability/ESG ideally across several industries, including existing relationships with current and prospective customers globally.
• Business acumen to understand business risk and challenges and recognize key market opportunities.
• Understanding of key market drivers and value-creation for stakeholders both internal and external.
• Cross-functional expertise to architect and drive an integrated go-to-market plan.
• Experience with complex customer interactions, products, and services.
• Track record of building strong people/teams.
• Global experience (culture, market, business practices, etc.).
• Experience leading significant organizational changes.
• Experience balancing priorities and driving to execution and delivering through others.
• Experience with complex customer interactions, products, and services.

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About Us

A global leader in applied safety science, UL Solutions transforms safety, security, and sustainability challenges into opportunities for customers in more than 100 countries. UL Solutions delivers testing, inspection and certification services, together with software products and advisory offerings, that support our customers' product innovation and business growth.

The UL Certification Marks serve as a recognized symbol of trust in our customers' products and reflect an unwavering commitment to advancing our safety mission.

We help our customers innovate, launch new products and services, navigate global markets and complex supply chains, and grow sustainably and responsibly into the future.

From the adoption of electrification to the enablement of 5G and new mobility, we collectively look toward new frontiers, working for a safer world. Our science is your advantage.

Mission: Working for a safer world