Executive Director
3 days ago
Executive Director, Recycle BC & Acting Executive Director, SK Recycles
Residential packaging and paper recycling occurs in British Columbia and Saskatchewan via a Western Canada team operating within an extended producer responsibility (EPR) model. We are looking to hire an Executive Director, Recycle BC & Acting Executive Director, SK Recycles to lead the “blue box” program in these two provinces.
Do you want to lead the way in sustainability and make a profound difference in our environment? Recycle BC and SK Recycles, two pioneering organizations reshaping recycling in Canada, are searching for an innovative and visionary Executive Director. This pivotal role combines strategy, leadership, and action to drive environmental change, fostering a circular economy and delivering measurable impact in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
As the Executive Director, you’ll champion a mission to revolutionize residential packaging and paper recycling systems. Working with a talented and dedicated team, you’ll inspire collaboration, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and ensure operational excellence across two provinces. If you’re driven to create a sustainable future and thrive in a role that balances strategy with tangible results, this is the challenge you’ve been waiting for.
Job Purpose
The Executive Director (ED) serves as the visionary leader and operational strategist for Recycle BC and SK Recycles. Tasked with delivering on the organizations’ ambitious missions, the ED is responsible for implementing the vision and ensuring the overall success of the stewardship programs in accordance with the policies and guidance of the Boards of Directors.
The ED oversees all aspects of operations, financial performance, and stakeholder engagement while fostering innovation and continuous improvement. With full P&L accountability, the ED ensures financial sustainability and operational efficiency while delivering on regulatory commitments. This role demands a forward-thinking leader who can balance the complexities of managing diverse teams and building partnerships while driving meaningful environmental outcomes.
If you’re ready to combine purpose with leadership and leave a lasting impact, this role offers an unmatched opportunity to lead the future of recycling in Western Canada.
Responsibilities:
- Cultivate strategic relationships to enhance Recycle BC’s visibility and influence within the industry and broader community.
- Develop and successfully implement the provincial stewardship programs’ objectives and obligations within the region, aligning with the company’s strategy. Lead annual planning process to inform program plan renewals and annual budget and operations plan priorities.
- Oversee the provincial programs’ financial and operational performance within the region. Manage the annual operating plans and financial performance to deliver commitments on time and within the approved budget. Identify stewardship program performance gaps and oversee development of corrective action and continuous improvement plans.
- Manage the region and its team, ensuring continuous improvement in operational performance (collections and post-collections) and maintaining stakeholder confidence in the ability to meet regulatory requirements efficiently. Oversee the provincial teams including hiring and performance management. Ensure staff priorities are focused on the delivery of goals and commitments.
- Foster an inclusive, cooperative, and collaborative culture within the region, with other regions, and with the national team, demonstrating the company’s values by example. Enable national harmonization priorities of benefit to stakeholders and develop relationships with colleagues in other provinces to advance this agenda on behalf of producers.
- Support the company’s engagement, marketing and communications goals with a focus on resident education, program awareness, strategic partnerships and research.
- Lead Government Relations at a regional and provincial level and liaise with national office on broader advocacy. Maintain a deep understanding of all relevant governing legislation, regulations, program plan commitments and service agreements. Implement government/stakeholder relations strategies to ensure that the stewardship plan is supported by municipal and provincial elected officials and staff and other local stakeholders.
- Note: Board Secretariat responsibilities for the ED have not yet been determined.
Education & Experience
Education: Post-secondary education related to business management
Experience: At least 15 years’ experience that involves exposure to:
- Supply chain management
- Municipal and/or Provincial government
- Waste management
- Stakeholder relations or communications
- Organizational leadership
- Financial management
- Reporting to a board of directors
Competencies:
- Expertise in contract negotiations
- Strategic leadership skills with demonstrated ability to deliver a shared vision
- Proven operational management capability with experience leading an organization with a complex supply chain, such as manufacturing, retail, or product stewardship
- Results driven and oriented with a track record of evidence-based decision making
- Expertise in stakeholder relations with demonstrated history of inclusive communications, transparency and accountability
- Exceptional communication skills both internally to foster a collaborative and inclusive structure and culture, and externally to build confidence and trust in the organization
- Effective capability in resource and budget management with knowledge and expertise in utilizing best practice principles and systems and with a commitment to fiscal prudence
- Proven ability to lead complex projects including effective change management and systems design, implementation, and transformation particularly within a national-regional operations model
- Exceptional relationship and change management skills with a manner that is sensitive to local needs and priorities, and that leverages local management and processes
- Proven ability to build an organization and deliver improved environmental outcomes
- Effective facilitation, negotiation, and conflict resolution including identifying optimal solutions that meet the needs of the affected parties
- Political acuity including an understanding of the implications of regulations and the various interests and requirements of members, producers, and vendors
- Effective risk identification and management skills
Application Process:
To apply, please submit your resume to this posting or email it directly to Alexandra.Bunardzic@summitsearchgroup.com. Only qualified candidates will be contacted.
Summit Search Group is committed to fair and equitable hiring practices. We encourage applications from all candidates regardless of ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, disability, age, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates participating in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.
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