Head of GWS Sustainability

This individual will be responsible for leading the design and execution of the Global Workplace Services (GWS) Sustainability strategy, with a primary focus on Scope 1 emissions reduction and Scope 3 visibility and accountability. GWS accounts for nearly half of Meta’s Scope 1 emissions (e.g., natural gas, shuttle fuel, backup generators, refrigerants) and plays a highly visible role in Scope 3 categories (e.g., office waste, food and beverages, construction, employee commute, purchased goods and services).

This role will ensure that GWS delivers measurable progress against Meta’s Net Zero commitments by embedding sustainability across operations, capital planning, and supply chain practices. The individual will drive alignment with Real Estate and Property Planning [REPP] and Facilities Delivery, ensuring sustainability targets and requirements are integrated into roadmaps, investment decisions, and program execution. This person will also oversee vendor-delivered tactical support (data management, reporting, certifications, program tools), ensuring these services align with GWS strategy and leadership priorities.

This role will have a dotted-line into the Integration & Transformation Director for REPP and Facilities Delivery, serving as a semi-dedicated resource to ensure sustainability standards and initiatives are integrated into REPP and Facilities Delivery priorities, with continued oversight from that function.Head of GWS Sustainability Responsibilities

• Develop and oversee the GWS Sustainability strategy with a primary focus on Scope 1 and 3 emissions, while supporting Scope 2 efforts
• Drive alignment with Meta’s Net Zero roadmap, ensuring GWS commitments are translated into measurable business actions
• Drive accountability for Scope 3 categories where GWS is highly visible (construction/embodied carbon, waste, food & beverage, commuting, purchased goods)
• Ensure REPP and Facilities Delivery are fully integrated into sustainability decision-making, with co-ownership of roadmaps and capital planning outcomes
• Serve as the GWS representative in Meta-wide sustainability forums, bringing forward GWS perspectives and driving alignment across Net Zero and ESG reporting
• Work with REPP and Delivery SMEs, vendor management, and procurement to negotiate sustainability standards and targets as part of supplier output expectations, and drive accountability through governance
• Support energy efficiency and renewables adoption across the GWS portfolio as a complementary lever
• Provide dotted-line oversight of vendor-delivered sustainability services (e.g., reporting, carbon accounting, guidelines, sustainable materials, LEED/green building certifications, life-cycle assessments) performed through IFM and central services, ensuring alignment with GWS sustainability objectives
• Translate data, reports, and tools into strategic choices and investment priorities for GWS
• Work with Projects and Design to develop and champion guidance and standards for sustainable design, construction, and operations, ensuring alignment with agreed ways of working
• Establish sustainability KPIs and dashboards for GWS, focused on Scope 1 progress and integration into REPP/Facilities delivery milestones
• Provide leadership-level reporting (QBRs, exec updates, ESG disclosures) in alignment with Facilities and REPP cadences, ensuring a clear sustainability narrative and accountability for results
• Ensure readiness for ESG reporting, certifications, and external accountability mechanisms
• Act as the sustainability partner to REPP and Facilities Delivery, ensuring these teams are co-owners of the sustainability roadmap
• Build alignment across GWS leaders and functions (Real Estate, Facilities, Culinary, Security) to embed sustainability into business-as-usual operations
• Represent GWS in Meta-wide forums, connecting global sustainability initiatives to operational execution
• Lead change management efforts to embed sustainability into decision-making
• Lead change management across GWS to embed sustainability as a decision-making factor
• Provide dotted-line oversight of sustainability-focused contingent workers and external consultants engaged through vendors and central services, ensuring deliverables align with GWS sustainability objectives
• Drive vendor engagement to deliver against embodied carbon, supply chain transparency, and sustainability metrics
• Partner with Facilities Delivery project managers and REPP teams to ensure external partners align with GWS standards
• 10+ years in sustainability, environmental strategy, supply chain responsibility, or related fields
• Expertise in Scope 1 and 3 management
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with Finance teams on metrics and reporting, including analysis of utility trends, spend management, and forecasting
• Experience embedding sustainability into large-scale real estate, facilities, and culinary programs, with oversight of utility contracts and green procurement strategy
• Track record of driving supplier/vendor alignment with sustainability targets
• Influencing skills and proven success aligning a variety of different stakeholders around shared sustainability goals
• Proven analytical and strategic thinker with hands-on experience delivering results at scale
• Familiarity with ESG frameworks, construction and building certifications, and supplier responsibility standards

Minimum QualificationsPreferred Qualifications For those who live in or expect to work from California if hired for this position, please click here for additional information. About Meta Meta builds technologies that help people connect, find communities, and grow businesses. When Facebook launched in 2004, it changed the way people connect. Apps like Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp further empowered billions around the world. Now, Meta is moving beyond 2D screens toward immersive experiences like augmented and virtual reality to help build the next evolution in social technology. People who choose to build their careers by building with us at Meta help shape a future that will take us beyond what digital connection makes possible today—beyond the constraints of screens, the limits of distance, and even the rules of physics.
172.000 $/year to 241.000 $/year + bonus + equity + benefits

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