Santosh Govindaraju
Copenhagen
Summary
Results-driven people leader with 15+ years' experience in sustainability leadership, consulting, strategy development, international development, and business analysis. Extensive experience in defining and implementing sustainability strategies, stakeholder engagement, and global people leadership. Proficient in strategy development and execution, change management, and sustainability integration frameworks such as UN SDGs and Circular Economy. Skilled in ESG disclosure and reporting frameworks including CDP, TCFD, SASB, GRI, Integrated Reporting, and EU taxonomy.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
Work History
Head of Sustainability
MKS Instruments Inc.
Copenhagen
12.2022 - Current
- Developed corporate sustainability strategy and roadmap, positioning it as growth enabler for organization.
- Established new sustainability team and governance to integrate a sustainability mindset across the organization.
- Cultivated strong partnerships with top customers and institutional investors, ensuring alignment of priorities for sustainable growth.
- Committed to the Science Based Targets Initiative and defined our decarbonization roadmap.
- Developed sustainability playbook and toolkit for commercial organization, incorporating product carbon footprints and life cycle assessments of solutions.
Head, Commerical Sustainability & Positioning
Novozymes A/S
01.2018 - 11.2022
- Demonstrated leadership through corporate sustainability strategy update with defined focus areas, roadmaps, and targets.
- Guided the organization in developing groundbreaking objectives for Sustainability in areas such as Climate (Science Based), Water Stewardship (Context-Based) and Circular.
- Drove implementation of sustainability strategy through strong engagement and collaboration with Public Affairs, Communications, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, and Quality teams.
- Identified the materiality of UN SDGs for Novozymes, leading efforts in disclosure and stakeholder engagement regarding our impact on the SDGs. Led Novozymes' efforts in implementing TCFD and EU taxonomy reporting.
- Engaged strategically with external networks and stakeholders in shaping forward-looking strategies on evolving frameworks such as TCFD, Science-Based Targets, EU taxonomy, etc.
- Successfully positioned Novozymes as a sustainability leader through strategic engagement with important investors and customers.
- Manage a global team of 10+ sustainability analysts, managers and life cycle scientists. Coach and ensured development of talent to grow into strategic positions in other functions.
Sr. Manager, Sustainability Integration & Reporting
Novozymes A/S
01.2016 - 01.2018
- Co-developed sustainability strategies for 20+ business units, from agriculture to consumer goods
- Integrated sustainability into value propositions and sales trainings for all our business units
- Co-author our annual report as key responsible for all sustainability disclosure according to the Danish Financial Act and author our UNGC Communication on Progress report
- Lead investor and customer engagement on sustainability.
Manager, Sustainable Business Development
Novozymes A/S
01.2015 - 01.2016
- Responsible for scouting and developing new business opportunities with high sustainability impact.
Manager, Sustainability Insights and Analysis
Novozymes A/S
01.2013 - 01.2015
- Set up a new analyst team in India to deliver insights & analysis to develop our sustainability strategy
- Led Novozymes sustainability reporting and ESG disclosure to multiple platforms like CDP, DJSI
- Collaborated with Corporate Strategy and Risk Management to inform Executive management and the Board on emerging risks and macro trends impacting our business
- Co-developed best-in-class integrated materiality framework to guide annual ESG disclosure.
Head, Competitive Intelligence
Novozymes A/S
01.2012 - 01.2013
- Deliver real-time, decision enabling insight to shape Novozymes' competitor strategy by continuously monitoring and communicating insights on competitors, markets and adjacencies.
Market Insight Analyst
Novozymes A/S
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Lead projects on complex business problems including go-to-market strategies, market sizing, benchmarking of competitor solution landscape, radical innovation projects and ideations.
Associate Consultant (Life Sciences)
Cognizant Business Consulting
- Defined an Offshoring Operating Model and KPI Management System for Packaging and Shared Services in key markets
- Improvised their process of allocating marketing resources across their portfolio to reduce Sales & Marketing expenses by 2%
- Advised on the development of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) guiding the development and validation activities of GMP and other regulated systems.
Software Developer
iGate Global & Sapient Corporation
Co-founder
Maverick Ventures (Holding company investing in cafes in India)
Management Intern
Quetzal
Education
MBA (Strategy and Marketing) -
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Bachelors (Computer Science & Engineering) -
Visweshwaraiah Institute of Technology
Skills
- Strategy development and execution
- Stakeholder and Change Management
- Sustainability integration frameworks: UN SDGs, Materiality, Science Based Targets (SBTi), Circular Economy
- ESG disclosure and reporting frameworks: CDP, TCFD, SASB, GRI, Integrated Reporting, EU taxonomy
- Partnership and Alliance Management
Timeline
Head of Sustainability
MKS Instruments Inc.
12.2022 - Current
Head, Commerical Sustainability & Positioning
Novozymes A/S
01.2018 - 11.2022
Sr. Manager, Sustainability Integration & Reporting
Novozymes A/S
01.2016 - 01.2018
Manager, Sustainable Business Development
Novozymes A/S
01.2015 - 01.2016
Manager, Sustainability Insights and Analysis
Novozymes A/S
01.2013 - 01.2015
Head, Competitive Intelligence
Novozymes A/S
01.2012 - 01.2013
Market Insight Analyst
Novozymes A/S
01.2011 - 01.2012
Associate Consultant (Life Sciences)
Cognizant Business Consulting
Software Developer
iGate Global & Sapient Corporation
Co-founder
Maverick Ventures (Holding company investing in cafes in India)
Management Intern
Quetzal
MBA (Strategy and Marketing) -
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Bachelors (Computer Science & Engineering) -
Visweshwaraiah Institute of Technology
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