ESG Manager

- Dienstverband - Rijswijk - Geplaatst op 5 september 2026 Kiwa
Ready to create trust and drive progress on a global scale? At Kiwa, we are the trusted partner ensuring quality, safety and sustainability across industries worldwide. Our comprehensive Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) services empower businesses to achieve compliance, enhance performance, and build trust. Your Role: Building Kiwa's ESG Function, Close to the Business
As Corporate ESG Manager , you help further build Kiwa's corporate ESG function and the ESG community around it, and keep both connected to the business. You follow what happens in ESG regulation and translate it into what it means for Kiwa in practice, you help decide which ESG topics matter most, and you make sure that what is agreed centrally actually works in the divisions and in 35+ countries. Where policies, definitions and ways of working do not exist yet, you help create them.
The corporate ESG team is built around three complementary areas: global ESG leadership and stakeholder engagement, the broader corporate ESG Strategy, Governance and approach including regulatory compliance, and ESG reporting, data and performance management. You report to the Global Head of ESG and support all three areas, with a strong focus on the second and on the ESG reporting in the third, and you act as the content sparring partner and right hand for that role. On reporting, you work side by side with the ESG & Reporting Specialist, who reports to the same Global Head: the Specialist owns the data and the production of the reporting, and the two of you work together on the interpretation and the communication.
You work together with the country level ESG coordinators and with management to drive the next steps in the ESG area, focusing on the agreed targets. At the same time you stay aligned with your corporate counterparts in Finance, HR, IT, E&C, Legal and Corporate Communication to drive cross-functi...