Environmental Strategy Manager

Overview

As Environmental Strategy Manager at Cummins Daventry, you lead regulatory sensing and analysis across environmental and product non-emissions areas. You translate complex requirements into clear guidance for the business and anticipate developments to shape strategy. You will head advocacy programs and coordinate cross-functional teams to influence regulations while building strong relationships with regulators and stakeholders. You drive strategic frameworks using environmental data to support planning, compliance, and decision-making. This role offers impact at scale in a global regulatory context.

Responsibilities

• Lead regulatory sensing and analysis for environmental and product non-emissions areas; translate requirements into business guidance
• Anticipate regulatory developments, assess impacts, and provide actionable recommendations
• Develop and lead regulatory positions and advocacy strategies with engagement objectives and messages
• Lead cross-functional regulatory advocacy programs with Engineering, Compliance, Product, Legal, Government Relations, and others
• Build relationships with regulators, industry associations, customers, and external stakeholders
• Develop and communicate regulatory intelligence and unified messages to internal stakeholders
• Create strategic frameworks synthesising data, trends, risks, and opportunities to inform strategy and planning
• Manage multiple cross-functional regulatory projects and continuous improvement initiatives, including scope, timelines, risks, resources, tools, and processes

Key requirements

• Bachelor degree or equivalent in Environmental Policy, Law, Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Science, Business, or related field; Master’s preferred
• Demonstrated experience in environmental and/or regulatory policy
• Experience leading global, cross-functional initiatives to deliver regulatory outcomes
• Experience engaging with EU policymakers, trade associations, and industry groups (preferred)
• Working knowledge of EU regulatory frameworks: EU POPs, REACH, RoHS, WEEE, ESPR, EU Battery Regulation
• Ability to coordinate with internal counsel on regulatory risks

• strong collaboration and stakeholder management
• excellent communication across organizational boundaries
• strategic and analytical thinking
• Regulatory strategy and advocacy
• Regulatory intelligence and in-house counsel collaboration
• Environmental topics: air, water, waste, sustainability, materials

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