Global Environmental Sustainability Expert

Since 1929, ESTEVE has been driven by a clear and powerful purpose: improving lives together. Headquartered in Barcelona, ESTEVE have two main businesses: CDMO & Pharma.

ESTEVE CDMO, it's a global CDMO company with world-class production sites in Spain, Mexico, China and USA, and the Vision to be global CDMO leaders in small molecule APIs, trusted by partners for quality and reliability.

ESTEVE pharma business has affiliates in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, France, the UK, and the Vision to be a global pharmaceutical company serving people with a need of highly specialized solutions.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: people matter, transparency, and accountability.

We care, we do: Our commitment goes beyond medicine. We care about making a positive impact on people, the environment, and the way we do business.

Mission

Reporting to the EHS Governance Manager, this role will be responsible for managing projects aligned with the company’s environmental sustainability and decarbonization strategy. It will consolidate the decarbonization roadmap and ensure its alignment with applicable standards and requirements as needed (SBTi, M&A, base year recalculation, etc.).

This position will play a key role in anticipating, analyzing, and explaining variations in the carbon footprint, based on information provided by different stakeholders. It will work cross-functionally with all areas impacting the footprint—such as Engineering, Supply Chain, Pharma Affiliates, Facilities, among others—driving the development of decarbonization projects aligned with both short- and long-term targets.

It will ensure the continuous update of the roadmap and decarbonization targets based on inputs and progress from the different areas, maintaining alignment with ESTEVE’s Net Zero Policy.

The role will define and manage decarbonization key performance indicators (KPIs), aligned with the overall strategy and commitments, ensuring proper tracking and promoting their visibility across the organization to support decision-making and progress towards targets.

In addition, it will play a key role in internal and external awareness, team training, and collaboration with external organizations, ensuring regulatory compliance and fostering innovation in environmental sustainability. It will also identify funding opportunities and grants in coordination with the relevant internal areas.

The role will maintain active engagement with external organizations, industry peers, and specialized providers to translate strategy into concrete decarbonization actions, assess tailored solutions for each project, and identify the resources required both to improve the granularity of carbon footprint data and to implement effective reduction initiatives.

Furthermore, it will be responsible for addressing customer requirements and expectations related to decarbonization, ensuring that the company has the necessary data, plans, and capabilities to meet these demands and strengthen its competitive positioning.

Roles

• Own and maintain the global decarbonization roadmap, ensuring it reflects actual progress and serves as the single reference for tracking performance.

• Define annual decarbonization targets in line with SBTi commitments and the Net Zero Policy.

• Monitor progress of decarbonization projects across all areas and assess their contribution against defined targets.

• Identify gaps vs. targets and trigger corrective actions with the responsible areas

• Engage key functions (Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Affiliates, Facilities, etc.) to ensure delivery of decarbonization initiatives.

• Ensure periodic update of the roadmap, targets, and base year recalculations as required (SBTi, M&A, structural changes).

• Lead the tracking and explanation of carbon footprint variations, ensuring consistency and robustness of data.

• Define and track decarbonization KPIs, ensuring visibility to support decision-making at different levels of the organization.

• Translate the decarbonization strategy into concrete, actionable initiatives across the business.

• Ensure compliance with applicable regulatory requirements and evolving sustainability standards.

• Address customer requirements related to decarbonization, providing reliable data, plans, and responses.

• Identify and support access to funding opportunities and external resources to accelerate decarbonization projects.

• Engage with external partners, industry peers, and forums to benchmark practices and identify improvement opportunities.

• Promote internal awareness and engagement on decarbonization through workshops, campaigns, and Net Zero community initiatives.

Direct Reporting

EHS Governance Manager

Required Studies

Academic background in Engineering, Sciences or related areas

Other specialized knowledge

• Sound knowledge of relevant environmental regulations and sustainability standards.

• Critical analysis skills and abilities to evaluate and implement sustainable solutions.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to influence internal and external stakeholders.

• Abilities to manage data and tech tolos and reporting platforms.

• Project management abilities

Languages

English (según MCER): English Proficiency Fluent

Professional experience

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in developing sustainability & decarbonization projects, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.

• Proven experience in coordination of cross-functional teams.

Ready to join us on our purpose to improve people’s lives? Become part of a team where your passion can make a real difference.