Stephan Caspers Email & Phone Number

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Main Tasks: Protecting and accelerating existing and future business, ensuring the general license to operate in a fast developing and demanding sustainability-conscious society and an increasingly transparent responsible corporate environment. It's all about sustainable business conduct and an ESG framework we can all build on. Driving Force: Passion, Commitment and ConvictionMain goals:- Creating transparency in metrics and related group performance- Driving a common understanding of necessary strategic developments- Providing the essential input proposals for environmental and climate target- & objective setting to the board of management, as well as for product portfolio decisions- Identification and early warning function for environmental, climate and portfolio related risk, based on legal and regulatory changes and/or decreasing performance- Including sustainability aspects and impacts into all strategic growth plans and M&A processes- Accompany sustainability transformation processes, initiate and assess them (e.g. phase out processes and alternatives) - Initiate sustainability thinking in all units and the corporate leadership team

In the future, only companies which have a sound and stable sustainability strategy will achieve a certain competitive advantage. That means completely new approaches, business models as well as products, technologies, and processes are necessary. New risks, but even more opportunities...What are you waiting for?Corporate auditing is more than just three lines of defense... it is continuous readjustment.

Developing the corporate sustainability strategy and responsibility principles and ensuring that all company's CR activities are in line with this strategy. Leading an interdisciplinary competence center, which advises both the Board of Management and the business units on all matters relating to sustainability. Providing leadership for the department which owns the process of collecting, developing and maintaining reliable data that comply with current market standards for use in the company's continuous improvement strategy and in all relevant external listing and rating relations.

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