Senior Director, Corporate Affairs, Sustainability

Are you ready to create real impact by integrating sustainability into the organisation?

Grundfos’ sustainability impact is real, measurable, and accelerating. In 2025, we reduced total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 1.5% compared to 2024, even as our business continued to grow, keeping us in line with our near‑term SBTi targets. Over the year, we also saved 1.6 billion m³ of water for end users, collected 83 tonnes of used products and helped provide 20.4 million people with water access. This progress is driven by our sustainability approach focused in four priority areas - water stewardship, water access, climate transition and circularity - areas that align deeply with our purpose and where we can deliver the greatest impact.

We are searching for a visionary leader who can build on this momentum by driving disciplined execution and ensuring that sustainability is seamlessly integrated across the entire organisation. If you’re a bold, influential leader who knows how to turn ambition into concrete results and embed sustainability into how we operate and innovate, this is the role where you will make your mark.

The Opportunity

As Senior Director, Corporate Affairs, Sustainability, you will define, elevate, and deliver the sustainability agenda for Grundfos. You will lead a high-performing organisation, work closely with key stakeholders such as Group Management, the Sustainability Council, and the four divisions, to ensure sustainability is deeply embedded into how we innovate, operate, and grow.

You will be part of the Corporate Affairs team, who consists of highly experienced and motivated colleagues within communications, public affairs and external relations. As a senior leader in this team, you will be expected to utilize synergies and pioneer corporation across these areas, to ensure a unified voice towards the business.

What You Will Lead

Strategy & Execution

• Drive execution of the global sustainability ambition, ensuring it is fully embedded across all divisions and functions.
• Establish a robust, data driven performance framework with clear KPIs, governance and accountability at every level.
• Set bold, measurable goals that translate ambition into clear priorities, accelerating impact and strengthening long-term sustainability leadership.
• Lead and empower - cross functional teams advancing key initiatives within water, climate, and circularity.
• Anticipate emerging trends and evolving sustainability challenges, shaping proactive responses and turning them into strategic opportunities.
• Execute on strategic and prioritised topics across the organisation and within Corporate Affairs while ensuring continuously stakeholder alignment.

Insights, integration and alignment

• Play a central role in transforming the next phase of the sustainability journey in Grundfos into executable actions, using strong, inspiring leadership to create clarity, coherence and alignment across the organisation.
• Provide senior leaders, including Group Management, with sharp insights on priority topics and emerging sustainability trends.
• Convert complex insights into clear, aligned decisions and coordinated execution across the organisation.
• Elevate understanding, capability and engagement around critical sustainability priorities to enable leaders and teams to deliver on the shared agenda.
• Demonstrate an agenda‑based mindset, placing the collective Corporate Affairs priorities above functional ownership. You readily empower other Corporate Affairs teams to lead on tasks that may naturally fall within your area, when it strengthens clarity, efficiency or impact.

Communication & Reputation

• Represent Grundfos as a senior sustainability spokesperson across internal and external platforms.
• Work closely with commercial and marketing teams to translate our sustainability commitments into clear value for customers and partners.
• Strengthen Grundfos’ position as a global sustainability leader through clear, credible communication and engagement.

What Success Looks Like in This Role

Success in this role is defined by your ability to translate ambition into disciplined execution. You will develop clear strategic roadmaps and actionable plans that guide Grundfos toward its sustainability goals and – crucially – ensure these plans are fully integrated across the organisation.

Strong alignment and genuine followership across divisions and the Sustainability Council will show that the organisation is moving cohesively in one direction, with sustainability on top of mind in daily decisions and long-term planning.

Through your leadership, Grundfos will advance its position as a recognised global sustainability leader, evidenced by measurable progress across water, climate, and circularity, and by a coordinated, execution-driven organisation that delivers impact at scale.

What You Bring

• +5 years of relevant experience driving and leading sustainability agendas in a global organisation.
• Proven ability to translate sustainability ambition into clear strategic decisions and disciplined execution.
• Deep expertise in environmental, social, and climate related sustainability topics.
• Highly experienced in navigating and influencing complex stakeholder landscapes in global, matrixed organisations.
• Strong analytical capabilities, including scenario modelling and value-at-stake assessments.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to motivate and influence at all organisational levels.
• Familiarity with sustainability frameworks such as CDP and SBTi.

Excited by this challenge but don’t tick every box? Apply anyway! We value transferable skills, diverse perspectives, and varied career paths - your unique experience could be exactly what we need.

What Makes You Stand Out

• A strategic and systems thinker who connects the dots across the business, sees interdependencies clearly, and uses them to drive coherent, organisation-wide execution.
• A collaborative leader who aligns, energises and enables others to execute, fostering shared ownership and collective impact across divisions and functions.
• A trusted advisor with strong foresight, capable of anticipating emerging trends, shaping direction, and influencing senior decision-making with clarity and credibility.

What We Can Offer You

In this role, you’ll have the platform and influence to shape one of Grundfos’ most strategically important agendas. You’ll join a culture built on collaboration, innovation, and purpose, where we tackle global water and climate challenges together and empower bold thinking.

We offer flexibility, hybrid working, global collaboration opportunities, and development experiences designed to help you grow as a leader. Our benefits focus on wellbeing, learning, and personal development; from volunteer days to international mobility and a people-centred work culture.

At Grundfos, you’ll be part of a diverse, supportive, and impact-driven community where every voice matters and where your leadership will directly contribute to shaping a more water-secure, low-carbon future.

Do you want to learn more?

If you have questions or would like to know more about this position, please contact Chief HR Business Partner, Jakob Vels Fuglsig at +4553195253 or jfuglsig@grundfos.com.