Sustainable-Aviation-Fuel Custody Recovery Leader

The mandate

The sustainable-fuel director was removed after external assurance found that supplier certificates, terminal receipts, blended inventory, airport uplift and corporate claim retirements could not be reconciled to the same fuel population. Book-and-claim transactions were recorded separately from physical purchases, corrections arrived after emissions reporting and two business units referenced overlapping environmental attributes. The airline must protect credible procurement and current operations while rebuilding evidence consistent with the ICAO CORSIA eligible-fuel certification and lifecycle-accounting framework.

The executive must start in Singapore within two weeks for eight months. The first 20 days will quarantine unsupported claims, reconcile open batches and establish one fuel-and-attribute register. By month three, the five largest airport chains must operate through common custody and retirement gates; the remaining 22 follow by month six. Two reporting closes and one supplier-certificate correction exercise precede a five-week handover to the appointed permanent leader.

Handover is complete when every claimed unit has eligible-fuel certificate status, batch or accepted chain reference, quantity, lifecycle input, custody or recognised book-and-claim path, owner, allocation, retirement and correction history; no attribute is counted twice; and two independent closes reproduce the same balance. The successor must receive contested certificates, contractual remedies, airport limitations, correction exposures and the next reporting and procurement calendar.

The interim may freeze an internal environmental claim, reject supplier evidence from the eligible ledger, set allocation and retirement controls, require counterparty correction and approve recovery assurance or system work up to SGD 8 million. Approved certifiers and assurance providers retain their conclusions; Finance owns reporting; Procurement owns awards and contract action; airport operators control physical fuel; the board approves public restatement, strategic volume or litigation.

Feedstock certification, lifecycle-method development, aircraft fuel acceptance, physical blending control, tax advice, public-policy advocacy and long-term fuel-sourcing strategy are outside scope. The leader cannot create missing provenance from commercial invoices or imply that physical uplift alone carries a particular environmental attribute. This mandate governs the airline's evidence and claims boundary while technical, regulatory and counterparty authorities remain intact.

Why this seat is open

Rapid procurement growth outpaced the control joining commercial fuel, sustainability attributes and external reporting. The former director allowed separate teams to optimise physical supply and claim coverage without a shared population. The audit committee needs temporary executive command through two closes while it recruits a leader experienced in both aviation-fuel custody and environmental-attribute discipline.

What you will own

• Reconcile certified, contracted, delivered, blended, uplifted, allocated, retired, transferred and corrected SAF-related populations.
• Quarantine unsupported or overlapping attributes and state the evidence, counterparty and authorised decision needed for restoration.
• Establish certificate, lifecycle, quantity, airport, business-unit and reporting-period identity through physical and recognised claim paths.
• Govern supplier corrections so affected allocations, retirements, financial inputs and public-reporting consequences remain reproducible.
• Roll one custody and claim-retirement gate across 27 airports without implying identical physical infrastructure or contract terms.
• Exercise a certificate withdrawal and simultaneous reporting close, exposing replacement, disclosure and customer-claim decisions.
• Induct the successor through contested batches, counterparty remedies, airport exceptions and the next procurement-reporting cycle.

Candidate qualifications

• Held senior aviation-fuel, environmental-attribute or supply-control authority across multiple airports and international business units.
• Has withdrawn or corrected SAF claims after certificate, mass-balance, allocation or retirement evidence failed assurance.
• Understands fuel contracting, terminals, blending, airport uplift, eligible-fuel certification and lifecycle accounting operationally.
• Can separate physical custody, recognised book-and-claim, financial reporting and public assertion without conflating authorities.
• Has challenged suppliers, traders and internal sustainability leaders while preserving certifier and assurance independence.
• Completed permanent handover after fuel and attribute balances survived supplier correction and consecutive reporting closes.

Non-negotiables

• Can start in Singapore within two weeks and sustain approximately 50% airport, supplier and terminal travel.
• Brings direct aviation-fuel and environmental-attribute control; generic carbon reporting experience alone is insufficient.
• Accepts certifier, assurance, Finance, Procurement, airport, board and technical-fuel authority boundaries.
• Will disclose interests involving fuel producers, traders, airports, certificate schemes, assurance firms and claim platforms.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a sustainable-fuel claim you withdrew after physical or attribute custody stopped reconciling.
2. 49 words maximum. Confirm your Singapore availability and the largest multi-airport fuel ledger you controlled.
3. 49 words maximum. Which correction event creates the greatest risk of double retirement across reporting periods?