Title:  Sustainability Program Manager

Job Summary

As a Sustainability Program Manager for Supplier Sustainability & Decarbonization, you will drive supplier engagement and sustainability performance improvement across NetApp’s global supply base. You will play a key role in advancing supplier maturity in environmental performance, circularity, and Scope 3 emissions reduction. This role also owns the foundation of sustainability data across the supply chain, including Full Material Disclosure (FMD), BOM-level material mapping, and lifecycle/carbon data readiness. You will work across Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Sustainability teams to ensure supplier data is accurate, consistent, and actionable, enabling scalable reporting, compliance, and decarbonization initiatives.

Job Requirements

• Lead supplier sustainability programs to improve performance, transparency, and alignment with NetApp expectations
• Collaborate on developing NetApp’s next generation sustainability supplier engagement program to include Tier 1, 2 and 3 direct and indirect suppliers
• Drive supplier maturity frameworks and continuous improvement initiatives
• Partner with Sustainability to embed criteria into supplier selection, contracts, and scorecards
• Build and maintain strong cross-functional relationships with internal stakeholders, such as Commodity Managers and Product Compliance teams, as well as external suppliers, to accelerate sustainability initiatives and improve performance.
• Engage suppliers to support NetApp's Scope 3 reduction and climate target alignment
• Track and analyze supplier environmental data (greenhouse gas (GHG), water, waste, plastics, biodiversity)
• Collaborate to build supplier environmental training programs
• Support supplier environmental target-setting and monitor progress
• Identify opportunities to reduce lifecycle emissions through supplier and design collaboration
• Drive collection, consolidation, and maintenance of Full Material Disclosure (FMD) data
• Perform BOM-level data mapping and standardize data across sources
• Ensure data accuracy, completeness, and consistency
• Support LCA and PCF data preparation and validation for downstream analysis
• Engage suppliers to collect and improve material and sustainability data
• Improve data quality and responsiveness through proactive engagement
• Ensure adherence to governance standards, templates, and SOPs
• Maintain documentation for traceability and audit readiness
• Identify inefficiencies and drive process improvements to scale and reduce manual effort
• Collaborate across Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Sustainability
• Support sustainability reporting (including regulatory and strategic reports), dashboards, and customer requests

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Sustainability, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field+
• 3 to 5 years  of experience in sustainability, corporate responsibility, supply chain, or supplier engagement
• Experience working on Scope 3, environmental metrics, or sustainability programs
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills
• Experience working with data, reporting, and sustainability frameworks (e.g., GHG Protocol, Sustainability reporting)
• Strong data management skills (Excel, data tools, dashboards)
• Key personality traits beneficial to have :
  • Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage and influence suppliers and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Excellent communication skills, able to translate sustainability goals into clear, actionable plans
  • Proactive and improvement-driven mindset, with a passion for driving continuous supplier performance improvements
  • Strategic yet practical thinker, able to connect enterprise goals with supplier-level execution
  • Influential without authority, capable of aligning stakeholders across functions
  • Curious and eager to learn, with strong interest in sustainability, decarbonization, and circularity
  • Resilient and patient, able to sustain progress in long-term initiatives
  • Comfortable working in evolving and ambiguous environments
  • Strong ownership and accountability in driving initiatives independently
  • Build trust and positive working relationships across teams and suppliers