Sustainability Director, APAC

About the role

Sustainability Director, APAC - Vantage Data Centers APAC Pte. Ltd, Singapore

Vantage Data Centers APAC Pte. Ltd seeks a regional Sustainability Director to lead APAC sustainability programs, partnering with cross-functional teams to align global strategy with local priorities. You will guide development decisions, engage stakeholders, and drive regional implementation with the Global Sustainability COE. The role focuses on setting regional sustainability goals, roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with market conditions, regulation, and customer needs.

This is the regional anchor for Vantage's sustainability agenda in APAC: you translate a global strategy into decisions made on the ground, sitting alongside the teams choosing sites, designing and building data centres, buying equipment and running operations. Expect to advise executives, steer capital-project trade-offs and carry the company's sustainability story into customer conversations and public forums.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise the regional leadership team on where sustainability creates risk or opportunity
• Sit in the rooms where site selection, design and procurement decisions get made so that sustainability is embedded at the point of decision
• Guide cross-functional partners through the sustainability dimensions of large capital projects - energy sourcing, water strategy, embodied carbon and supply chain engagement
• Work with a regional Sustainability Engineer on implementation and performance improvement
• Support customer RFP responses, audits and strategic conversations with hyperscalers
• Build regional goals and roadmaps that hold up to scrutiny
• Feed quality data into global reporting and assurance processes
• Build sustainability literacy across regional teams
• Engage with local government, NGOs, and community stakeholders on sustainability matters
• Support policy engagement alongside Public Policy colleagues
• Manage greenwashing risk and ensure disclosure credibility

Qualifications

• 10+ years in corporate sustainability, environmental strategy or ESG within complex multinational organisations
• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, finance, sustainability or data science
• Demonstrated experience embedding sustainability into large capital projects - infrastructure, energy, manufacturing or real estate, ideally data centres
• Cross-functional influence experience across engineering, construction, operations, procurement, commercial, and public policy
• Direct experience facing customers on sustainability topics through RFP responses or audits
• Experience with greenwashing risk and disclosure credibility