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Job Description

General Motors (GM) aims for Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion, and your role is essential to this vision. As part of this vision, GM is looking for a leader to drive our international sustainability strategy and program. This role focuses on strengthening regional sustainability capabilities, aligning internal and external expectations, and ensuring consistent progress toward GM’s long-term sustainability goals. This team member will lead sustainability professionals around the globe and develop key priorities and performance indicators for our international regions.

What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)

+ Establish vision, strategy and priorities for GM sustainability activities outside North America, including priorities, connections, and goals.

+ Lead GM’s international sustainability team, including sustainability professionals in Brazil and supporting GM China.

+ Establish and lead cross-functional sustainability working group, consisting of leaders across GM International, to drive shared goals, insights and accountability to achieve our sustainability targets.

+ Gather and share insights and knowledge from regions to influence and guide global strategy and programs.

+ Contribute to the development of governance models, aligning KPIs, and integration of sustainability into business planning and decision making. Harmonize the sustainability processes across regions through knowledge sharing and implementation of common practices.

+ Partner closely with public policy, communications, product engineering and manufacturing to share insights and drive shared projects and goals.

+ Manage international stakeholder engagement, including employee engagement and partner / NGO engagements, in close collaboration with global stakeholder engagement lead and plan.

+ Serve as external spokesperson, thought leader, and ongoing sustainability expert for GM’s sustainability strategy, vision and related programs.

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

+ Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Business, Sustainability, Science, or other related field.

+ Minimum 5 years of sustainability experience, ideally in multinational companies

+ Strong ability to influence and drive accountability across an enterprise.

+ Action Oriented, with a focus on innovation and leadership on environmental and social topics and broad corporate sustainability strategy, with ability to navigate strong headwinds with resilience and maintain optimism for direct team, enterprise and beyond.

+ Authentic commitment to the EV transition, a zero emissions future for GM, and a more sustainable world.

+ Willingness to travel 25% of the time.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)

+ Master's degree in engineering or business administration

+ International Public Policy Experience

+ Experience working cross functionally across multiple teams

Company Vehicle: Upon successful completion of a motor vehicle report review, you will be eligible to participate in a company vehicle evaluation program, through which you will be assigned a General Motors vehicle to drive and evaluate. Note: program participants are required to purchase/lease a qualifying GM vehicle every four years unless one of a limited number of exceptions applies.

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Every day, we want every employee to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Benefits Overview

From day one, we're looking out for your well-being–at work and at home–so you can focus on realizing your ambitions. Learn how GM supports a rewarding career that rewards you personally by visiting Total Rewards resources (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/working-at-gm/total-rewards) .

Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunities (U.S.)

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of unlawful discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that providing an inclusive workplace creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers.

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We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. Applicants in the recruitment process may be required, where applicable, to successfully complete a role-related assessment(s) and/or a pre-employment screening prior to beginning employment. To learn more, visit How we Hire (https://search-careers.gm.com/en/how-we-hire) .

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We are leading the change to make our world better, safer and more equitable for all through our actions and how we behave. Learn more about:

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Our Culture

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Our diverse team of employees bring their collective passion for engineering, technology and design to deliver on our vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion. We are looking for adventure-seekers and imaginative thought leaders to help us transform mobility.

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