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Senior Specialist - Sustainability Strategy
- 28 March 2026
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- Zurich
Job summary
Join On as a Sustainability Strategy Senior Specialist, focusing on impactful initiatives. Collaborate in a dynamic work environment with great benefits.
Tasks
- Shape strategic direction with the Global Sustainability team.
- Structure complex challenges into measurable projects for impact.
- Craft compelling narratives to communicate strategy effectively.
Skills
- Degree in business, economics, or engineering with 5+ years of experience.
- Advanced modeling capabilities and analytical rigor.
- Pragmatic, execution-oriented with strong KPI embedding skills.
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About the job
In short
As Sustainability Strategy Senior Specialist, you will support the Sustainability Strategic Portfolio Lead in shaping and managing a complex portfolio of programs and initiatives that move the company toward its committed targets. You will help bridge high-level ambition with operational reality, ensuring that sustainability priorities translate into measurable outcomes.You will act as a strategic thought partner to the Global Sustainability team and the broader Oniverse, tackling complex, unstructured challenges and turning them into structured, impact-driven action.
Your Mission
- Shape strategic direction by partnering with the Global Sustainability team and senior stakeholders to translate ambition into clear priorities and roadmaps.
- Structure high-impact challenges, breaking down complexity into structured, executable and measurable projects.
- Quantify value and impact through rigorous financial and sustainability modeling, enabling data-driven trade-offs and optimal resource allocation.
- Craft compelling, executive-level narratives to communicate strategy, secure buy-in, and report on progress.
- Foster cross-functional alignment to ensure sustainability priorities are deeply embedded directly into the company’s Long Range Plan.
Your story
- You hold a degree in business, economics, engineering, or another quantitative field, with 5+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, or sustainability.
- You bring advanced modeling capabilities and the analytical rigor to navigate complexity and identify optimal solutions balancing value creation and impact.
- You are pragmatic and execution-oriented, with a strong understanding of how to embed KPIs into business processes and annual planning cycles.
- You excel at distilling complex trade-offs into clear, executive-ready insights that enable confident decision-making.
About the Team
We are a small team with big responsibilities. We design and implement the sustainability strategy across On, helping shape the company’s future through research, strategy development, and hands-on implementation.As the strategic hub for sustainability, we define priorities, targets, and policies, while enabling the organization with tools, training, and guidance. We foster innovation in products and processes through a sustainability lens and amplify our progress through clear, credible communication - internally and externally.