Sustainability Specialist, Americas

Interface Americas, Inc is seeking a Sustainability Specialist for its Atlanta, GA location. This role involves supporting sales and marketing teams, developing educational content on sustainability, managing events, and project management related to sustainability initiatives. The candidate should have a bachelor's degree and 3 years of relevant experience. The position requires excellent communication skills and involves up to 30% travel. Salary ranges from $72,000 to $108,000 annually.
Interface is a global flooring solutions company and sustainability leader, offering an integrated portfolio of carpet tile and resilient flooring products that includes Interface carpet tile and LVT, nora rubber flooring, and FLOR premium area rugs for commercial and residential spaces. Made with purpose and without compromise, Interface flooring brings more sophisticated design, more performance, more innovation, and more climate progress to interior spaces. A decades-long pioneer in sustainability, Interface remains "all in" on becoming a restorative business. Today, the company is focusing on carbon reductions, not offsets, as it works toward achieving its verified science-based targets by 2030 and its goal to become a carbon negative enterprise by 2040.

The Sustainability Specialist, Americas is a key position for supporting the sales, marketing, and sustainability teams based in North America. The Market Sustainability team influences the expectations and demands of the market to recognize Interface's sustainability leadership in product offerings and corporate commitments.

Duties & Responsibilities

Provide timely, professional customer service for project and sales support

Learn, present, and develop new educational content for designers, architects and owners around key sustainability topics

Manage events in-market and for customer visits to Georgia

Develop strategy and key performance metrics for market sustainability team impact, including quantification of commercial benefit and qualitative feedback from customers

Project manage and create marketing and external content for market-facing sustainability positioning

Develop circularity asset map and support relationship development with partners

Promote Re Entry and coordinate reverse logistics with sales teams to bring back product from the field.

Coordinate data collection with other teams to support RFPs, corporate sustainability reporting initiatives,

Public speaking and written communication around challenging sustainability topics

Work as a team to provide training and tools to help sales leverage our sustainability leadership to pursue and close sales

Perform other duties as assigned in an ever-changing landscape

Skills & Abilities

Excellent public speaking and live presentation skills-ability to effectively communicate complex sustainability concepts and data to diverse audiences

Familiarity with building product sustainability databases (Ecomedes, Mindful Materials etc.) a plus

Travel up to 30%

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degreein sustainability, business, engineering, or sciences

3 years of experience with the architecture, engineering, and/or construction industry

Project management experience

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Salary: USD 72000 - 108000 per year

Experience: 3 years required