EVP – Sustainability and Transition — Automotive-Chip Business

The mandate

An automotive-chip business is strengthening supply assurance while vehicle customers request product-level environmental data. Alternate foundry, package and material routes can change emissions, water, origin, yield and qualification. Current sourcing and sustainability models use different product boundaries. An urgent new EVP – Sustainability and Transition will make the physical supply route, lifecycle calculation and customer claim reconcile.

Approximately 575 employees and material partners span design, product, operations, supply and functions. The EVP owns transition strategy, product footprinting, responsible sourcing, claims, reporting and assurance and reports to the Group Chief Executive or sponsor.

Product footprints need route-specific evidence. Fab energy, process gases, die area, yield, package materials, test and logistics all matter. Supplier averages may identify hotspots but cannot substantiate a customer-specific claim where the actual route differs.

Supply alternates must be evaluated across resilience and impact. A lower-carbon source may have longer qualification, water stress or weak labour evidence. A resilient route that increases footprint may still be necessary, but the trade-off should be explicit and mitigated rather than hidden.

Allocation and chain-of-custody controls will prevent duplicate renewable or certified claims. Finance, supply and quality must reconcile purchased attributes to eligible product and period. Marketing cannot promise a benefit before verification.

Automotive lifecycle matters. Reliability, repair, vehicle efficiency and long support can outweigh a narrow manufacturing reduction. Product decisions will avoid claims based on one stage while shifting impact elsewhere.

Process gases and abatement deserve technical scrutiny. Reported fab electricity can fall while high-impact gas loss, scrap or rework rises. The EVP will require supplier methods to include material process drivers, verification status and uncertainty, working with engineers to avoid simplistic comparisons across nodes or yields.

Water and local environmental stress need place-based evidence. The same consumption can carry different consequence across fabrication regions. Supply assurance scenarios will include watershed, utility and community dependency, conservation actions and recovery, without presenting a site-risk score as a precise product footprint.

Responsible sourcing extends into minerals, chemicals and labour conditions within packaging and sub-tiers. Supplier codes and audits are starting points. The transition team will investigate grievance and corrective-action quality and will plan improvement or responsible exit without moving the same harm to a less visible source.

Vehicle customers may use chip data inside broader product calculations. Definitions, allocation, version and change notifications must be agreed so a later route or yield change is not silently carried into an obsolete vehicle claim. Customer disclosures will state which products and periods the evidence covers.

Transition capital will have operational owners. Cleaner energy, abatement, recycled materials or supplier upgrades require adoption and maintenance, not merely purchase. Finance will validate realised impact net of yield, qualification and support, and the EVP will stop projects whose physical result cannot be measured.

Claims governance will extend to tenders, investor materials and public policy engagement. The same product cannot carry incompatible footprint boundaries across audiences. The EVP will maintain approved methods, source versions and correction routes and train commercial leaders to state uncertainty without turning it into false precision.

Scenario work will include severe supply disruption. The transition team will model how emergency alternate routes affect emissions, water, waste and responsible-sourcing evidence and define which temporary claims must pause. Crisis continuity does not authorise the organisation to attribute benefits it can no longer substantiate.

This new role is urgent because supply and customer decisions are being made now. The EVP will build a small expert team and embed accountability in product and sourcing functions.

What you will own

• Establish route-specific semiconductor lifecycle evidence.
• Integrate resilience, carbon, water and responsible sourcing.
• Govern supplier data, allocation and customer claims.
• Shape alternate-source and product decisions.
• Build funded transition plans and verification.
• Correct unsupported statements promptly.
• Engage vehicle customers on comparable boundaries.
• Develop sustainability capability across functions.

The first 12 months

In the first 45 days, map priority product routes, claims and supplier evidence and pause unsupported customer statements. Identify sourcing decisions with material trade-offs.

By month six, implement a controlled footprint method, complete enhanced diligence and integrate sustainability into alternate qualification. Agree approved claim guidance.

At twelve months, cover 85% of priority product volume with route-specific validated data, reduce selected lifecycle footprints by 10% and close 90% of high-risk supplier actions. No material customer claim should require withdrawal, and supply assurance should meet approved qualification thresholds.

What the sponsor will measure

• Customer data following the actual qualified route.
• Resilience and environmental trade-offs visible together.
• Supplier claims tested beyond certificates.
• Product attributes allocated without double counting.
• Lifecycle value considered beyond fabrication.
• Transition ownership embedded outside one function.

The person

You bring 18–22 years in semiconductor sustainability, automotive product, sourcing or engineering. You have built product footprint evidence and changed a supplier or design choice.

Your prior scope should include €500 million supply or 400 employees and partners. Evidence must include a supplier-data challenge, an alternate-route trade-off and a customer claim governed through assurance.

Compensation and terms

Base compensation is €250,000–330,000 plus annual incentive linked to verified transition, supply assurance, claims, suppliers and leadership. The permanent appointment is located onsite in Dresden and is accountable to the Group Chief Executive or nominated executive sponsor. Prompt appointment is preferred.

Confidentiality

The business, products, suppliers, footprints, customers and sourcing routes remain confidential. Detail follows suitability, conflicts and signed confidentiality. Applicants must not contact customers or suppliers to infer the enterprise.