Sustainability Specialist - Commercial Execution

​Requisition ID: 67792

Position Type: (US)Full Time

Workplace Arrangement:

About Kerry

Kerry is the world's leading taste and nutrition company for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries. Every day we partner with customers to create healthier, tastier and more sustainable products that are consumed by billions of people across the world. Our vision is to be our customers' most valued partner, creating a world of sustainable nutrition. A career with Kerry offers you an opportunity to shape the future of food while providing you opportunities to explore and grow in a truly global environment.

About the role

The Sustainability Specialist – Commercial Execution supports the implementation of sustainability in customer engagements, value propositions, and internal governance. The role focuses on executing established sustainability commercial processes, supporting quantified sustainability messaging, maintaining high-quality sustainability information systems, and improving visibility of sustainability’s contribution to commercial outcomes.

The role is customer-facing and builds capability in sustainability metrics, customer ESG requirements, CRM reporting, and cross-functional coordination, with exposure into more strategic sustainability value and impact work.

Note: Preference will be given to candidates within driving distance of our HQ in Beloit, WI.

What will you do?

Commercial Sustainability Enablement

• Support the development and rollout of customer sustainability value propositions using approved data and messaging.

• Provide sustainability insights, training, and technical support for customer engagements, proposals, and business opportunities.

• Work with Insights tools and team to showcase growth potential for customers with sustainability claims/ attributes by leveraging Kerry portfolio.

• Develop decarbonization roadmaps for global and strategic customers in partnership with commercial teams.

• Use customer insights and data analysis to strengthen sustainability value propositions and prioritize opportunities.

Sustainability Data, Metrics & Quantification

• Apply sustainability metrics, including carbon, nature, and deforestation-free, to customer-facing materials.

• Gather, organize, and validate sustainability data across sustainability, R&D, operations, and regulatory teams.
• Build working knowledge of the organization’s sustainability measurement approaches, assumptions, and boundaries.
• Lead Carbon Guide validation in partnership with Global SME for accuracy.

Commercial Support: ESG requests, Questionnaires & Platform Management

• Coordinate customer sustainability requests across commercial, R&D, Procurement, Regulatory, Legal, Operations, and Sustainability teams.

• Complete customer sustainability questionnaires, RFIs, surveys, certifications, and related requests.

• Assist with customer requests within digital platforms, including administrative site linking, audit visibility, and internal coordination.
• Maintain tracking and documentation to ensure timely, accurate, and consistent responses.

• Perform quality checks to ensure responses align with approved claims and supporting documentation.

• Maintain a library of standard responses, data, and evidence to streamline future RFIs and questionnaires.

Sustainability Content Management

• Maintain approved sustainability content in content repositories (e.g., Seismic, SharePoint), ensuring materials are accurate, current, and aligned with the sustainability strategy.
• Support content updates following sustainability report releases, strategy refreshes, or new initiatives.
• Help commercial teams locate and correctly use approved sustainability materials.

Commercial Performance Tracking & CRM Reporting

• Use CRM tools such as Salesforce to track and report sustainability-related commercial activity.

• Track pipeline development and conversion for sustainability-related opportunities.

• Sustainability contracts performance and reporting to customers.

Governance, Engagement & Continuous Improvement

• Support adoption of carbon metrics into recipe creation with RD&A teams.
• Support coordination of a sustainability ambassador or champion network, including communications, mentoring, and participation tracking.

• Support sustainability governance forums through meeting coordination, action tracking, and documentation.

• Assist with process improvement initiatives and special projects as assigned.

What will you need to be successful?

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, marketing, or a related field.
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in marketing, sales, supply chain, procurement, customer support or a related business operations role.
• Comfortable working with CRM and content management systems (e.g., Salesforce, Seismic, SharePoint) and online reporting tools.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong attention to detail and analytical skills, with the ability to review sustainability data, spot inconsistencies, and produce accurate responses.
• Working knowledge of common ESG and sustainability reporting concepts (e.g., GHG emissions scopes, targets, responsible sourcing); prior experience with customer platforms/questionnaires is a plus.
• Experience organizing councils, committees, or cross-functional groups.
• Availability to travel up to 30%.

Compensation Data

The pay range for this position is $63,000 - $103,450 in Annual Salary. Kerry typically does not hire an individual at the top or near the top of the range, as we are a pay-for-performance company, and this range is set to continue to reward performance annually while in role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. The specific compensation offered to a candidate within the above range may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and location. Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement. This job posting is anticipated to expire on 12/09/2026.

We may use artificial intelligence tools to support the review and assessment of applications and assist with scheduling interviews. We do not use AI to make decisions during the interview process. All candidate assessments and hiring decisions are made by our recruitment and leadership teams.

​Kerry is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. Kerry will only employ those who are legally authorized to work in the United States for this opening. Any offer of employment is conditional upon the successful completion of a background investigation and drug screen. Additional information can be found at: Know Your Rights: Workplace Discrimination is Illegal (dol.gov).

Beware of scams online or from individuals claiming to represent us. A Kerry employee will not solicit candidates through a non-Kerry email address or phone number. In addition, Kerry does not currently utilise video chat rooms (e.g., Google Hangouts) to conduct interviews. Refuse any request that asks you to provide payment to participate in the hiring process (e.g., purchasing a “starter kit,” investing in training, or something similar). Kerry will not ask you to pay any money at any point in the hiring process with the exception of reimbursable travel expenses. In addition, any payments made by Kerry will be from official firm accounts bearing the Kerry name.

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Posting Type: DNI