Freelance Head of Sustainability Regulatory

Key Responsibilities

1. Sustainability Regulatory Strategy & Regulatory Change Leadership

• Define and lead the firm's global sustainability regulatory strategy, ensuring alignment between enterprise sustainability objectives, regulatory requirements, and legal entity obligations.
• Serve as strategic advisor on sustainability and climate-related regulatory developments, assessing regulatory impacts and advising senior management on emerging risks, opportunities, and implementation priorities.
• Translate regulatory requirements into actionable implementation strategies, governance frameworks, operating model enhancements, disclosure requirements, and delivery roadmaps.
• Maintain a forward-looking view of regulatory change, supervisory expectations, industry developments, and peer practices to inform strategic decision-making and enterprise prioritization.

2. Enterprise Regulatory Execution & Program Delivery

• Lead enterprise-wide implementation of sustainability regulatory requirements across global and legal entity reporting obligations, driving delivery from regulatory interpretation through implementation, disclosure readiness, and business-as-usual integration.
• Establish and oversee a strategic portfolio of sustainability regulatory initiatives, ensuring clear accountability, effective prioritization, timely delivery, and resolution of execution risks.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across Sustainability, Risk, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Functions, and regional stakeholders to ensure consistent and coordinated execution.
• Maintain regulatory requirements traceability, implementation documentation, and disclosure inventories to support transparency, accountability, and audit readiness.

3. Regulatory Reporting, Disclosure Readiness & Assurance

• Provide strategic oversight of sustainability and climate-related disclosures across enterprise and legal entity reporting, ensuring compliance, consistency, and alignment with regulatory expectations.
• Strengthen the firm's disclosure readiness through robust documentation standards, evidencing frameworks, controls, change management processes, and assurance support mechanisms.
• Partner with Finance, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Internal Audit to embed sustainability regulatory requirements within the firm's governance and control environment and support assurance-ready execution.
• Drive continuous enhancement of reporting capabilities, controls, and reporting processes to improve efficiency, consistency, and regulatory resilience.

4. Governance, Operating Model & Accountability

• Design and oversee the sustainability regulatory governance framework, including executive steering forums, legal entity governance engagement, escalation protocols, decision-making processes, and Board and Committee reporting.
• Establish and maintain a scalable global operating model that balances enterprise consistency with jurisdictional and legal entity-specific regulatory requirements.
• Drive governance, accountability, and control enhancement initiatives to ensure regulatory obligations are effectively owned, monitored, and executed across the organization.
• Provide regular updates to executive leadership and governance bodies on regulatory developments, implementation progress, key risks, dependencies, and strategic decisions.

5. Leadership, People Management & Stakeholder Engagement

• Lead, develop, and inspire a diverse, multicultural, and geographically dispersed team of sustainability regulatory professionals, fostering a high-performance, inclusive, and collaborative culture while building organizational capability and succession strength.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives and governance forums, influencing strategic decisions and driving alignment on sustainability regulatory priorities.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across regions, functions, and legal entities to support effective implementation and embed accountability for regulatory outcomes.
• Represent the Sustainability Hub in interactions with internal governance forums, auditors, regulators, industry groups, investors, and other key stakeholders as required.