Senior Supply Chain Environmental Specialist

Tesla is hiring a Senior Supply Chain Environmental Specialist in Brandenburg, Germany, to lead responsible sourcing initiatives focusing on water conservation, circular materials, and biodiversity. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, engaging suppliers, developing data mechanisms, implementing sustainability programs, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The role requires expertise in environmental standards, data analysis, and strong communication skills, with a focus on both operational tasks and strategic planning.
Summary

Tesla seeks a Senior Supply Chain Environmental Specialist to lead responsible sourcing initiatives focusing on water conservation, circular materials, and biodiversity. Responsibilities include conducting materiality assessments, engaging with suppliers on environmental programs, developing data collection and analysis mechanisms, implementing sustainability programs, tracking KPIs, contributing to impact reports, and ensuring regulatory compliance. The role demands expertise in environmental standards (CDP, SBTi, AWS, GHG Protocol), data analysis, and communication, along with experience in automotive, consulting, or tech. This position requires hands-on operational tasks and strategic planning, interacting with various stakeholders across the organization.

Must Have
• Lead materiality assessments for water and biodiversity.
• Engage suppliers on environmental programs.
• Develop data collection and analysis mechanisms.
• Implement high-impact sustainability programs.
• Expertise in environmental standards (CDP, SBTi, AWS, GHG Protocol).

Good To Have
• Experience in automotive, tech, or energy sector.
• Experience with large datasets and data projects.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

What to Expect

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Specialist to support our Supply Chain Organization in responsible sourcing topics with a focus on growing Tesla’s engagement with the supply base in the topics of water conservation, circular materials, and biodiversity. A successful candidate will build a deep understanding of Tesla’s current efforts on responsible sourcing and how those efforts meet global expectations. The role requires in-depth knowledge of international standards and practices in the areas of environmental management, water conservation, and biodiversity (TNFD) as well as an understanding trends and best practices for public disclosure on these topics. In this role you will lead Tesla’s strategy around engaging the supply base on these interrelated environmental topics, as well as defining the KPIs and data-management systems.  An ideal candidate has experience launching data-driven programs, has exposure to one or more manufacturing/industrial/mining environments, and has a solid foundation in responsible sourcing topics such as water conservation, circular materials, or biodiversity. The role will interact with both key leadership personnel as well as day-to-day operations on a regular basis and hence require the ability to perform hands-on operational tasks as well as strategize on longer term solutions. 

What You’ll Do
• Lead materiality assessment efforts in the topic areas of water and biodiversity related to supply chain key commodities.
• Engage directly with suppliers on topics related to their manufacturing operations and existing water, circular materials, and biodiversity management programs  
• Develop mechanisms to collect, interpret, and analyze relevant data to monitor progress against goals, identify opportunities for improvement, and communicate success. 
• Implement high-impact programs to maximize the environmental sustainability of Tesla’s supply chain.
• Track progress against developed KPIs for overall environmental goals and create reports and presentations to help internal stakeholders understand Tesla’s progress toward its goals 
• Contribute to Tesla’s annual Impact Report and any external reporting on information related to supply chain water and biodiversity efforts.  
• Support supply chain engagement around greenhouse gas management topics where needed.
• Ensure regulatory documentation is complete and ready for audits and identify where public accessibility to such documentation is mandated or preferred. 
• Document project approach, timelines, milestones, and deliverables.  
• Build and manage relationships with internal teams to facilitate engagement. 

What You’ll Bring
• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Management, Engineering, Supply Chain, Environmental Policy and/or equivalent experience or evidence of exceptional ability. 
• 3-5 years of strategic and operational supplier due diligence experience in automotive, consulting and/or tech industry.  
• Substantial knowledge of environmental protocols including CDP, Science Based Targets Network, Alliance for Water Stewardship, and GHG Protocol.
• Experience interacting with large and diverse supply base, preferably in the automotive, technology or energy sector. 
• Familiarity with working with large data-sets and translating requirements of large data projects into smaller, actionable items.
• High proficiency with Microsoft Windows and Office applications, particularly Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio. 
• Ability to present complex issues in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to prioritize and manage regulatory analysis and implementation with demanding deadlines. 
• Exceptional communication, strategic thinking, and interpersonal skills. 
• Experience working across and successfully influencing multiple internal stakeholders.