Sustainability Program Manager

Location: Amsterdam

This is Adyen

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition. 

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

We also believe businesses have a meaningful role to play in creating positive societal change. 

Adyen’s Social Impact team exists to enable employees to support causes they care about, generate positive impact in the communities where we operate, and across our key cause areas: education, environmental sustainability and emergencies. Across Adyen Impact, we work to enable the full potential of our ecosystem, ensuring that our social initiatives are deeply integrated with our core business to create scalable, impactful solutions.

The Opportunity

Sustainability Program Manager 

We're looking for an experienced Sustainability Manager to turn Adyen’s environmental strategy into action across the business.

In this role, you'll support, guide and lead the way we make progress against Adyen’s climate commitments, helping teams across the business deliver with clear owners, milestones and follow-through. You’ll be ensuring our sustainability priorities stay on track, and that our climate funding is executed. 

You’ll work closely with our Global Sustainability Lead, and you’ll ensure the strategy is translated into implementation and that we execute against it. You’ll partner with specialist teams across Procurement, Workplace and Finance, and with business owners in Engineering, Events, Comms and HR, so that sustainability is embedded in operational decisions. 

As a highly collaborative, strategic thinker and strong communicator, you enjoy turning complexity into engaging and clear solutions and collaborating in a commercial and fast-moving environment. You’re an exceptional program manager with a track record of delivering cross-functional sustainability programs in global, fast-paced environments. This is a rare opportunity to shape how a global payments company embeds sustainability into its everyday operations and delivers meaningful outcomes for people and the planet.

What You’ll Work On

• Climate Target Program Delivery
• Drive the execution of Adyen’s environmental strategy and climate commitments across renewable electricity, supplier engagement and business travel. Coordinate owners, milestones, dependencies, follow-ups and escalations.
• Work with specialist teams in Sustainable Procurement, Workplace (business travel) and Finance (ESG measurement and reporting) to keep programs that depend on their expertise moving and resolve blockers.
• Support in-house execution of our climate funding strategy, tracking actions and supporting internal activation alongside the Global Sustainability Lead.
• Sustainability Business Partnering
• Act as the day-to-day sustainability partner for teams such as Workplace, Engineering, Procurement, Events, Comms and HR, embedding sustainability into operational decisions and shared ownership.
• Support emerging areas such as workplace sustainability, employee engagement and environmental guidance for AI and technology, developing a coherent approach rather than responding ad hoc.
• Data & Insights
• Maintain program data across key programs (such as travel data, supplier engagement insights, AI usage and the carbon removal tracker), analyzing it to find delivery gaps and give leadership and key stakeholders decision-ready insights.

Who You Are 

• You have 5+ years of cross-functional program management experience in corporate sustainability, climate or ESG, ideally delivering programs that depend on input from many teams.
• You have working knowledge of corporate climate topics such as GHG accounting, renewable electricity, business travel and supplier decarbonization, and can translate them into practical actions for the business.
• You influence, guide and align senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders around shared objectives, and know how to follow up and escalate to resolve blockers without owning every function yourself.
• You use data to drive decisions and tell the story. You can analyze program metrics and turn them into insights that identify delivery gaps and shape priorities.
• You communicate clearly and can effectively use storytelling to engage different audiences, from employees across offices to senior leaders, tech through to sales teams.
• You take ownership and show initiative. You are a creative problem solver who thrives in ambiguity, adapts quickly and finds solutions independently, whilst being equally comfortable collaborating with others.
• You are passionate about meaningful environmental impact, and pragmatic about what it takes to run and scale programs effectively.
• You are comfortable working with platforms and tooling, including AI, to improve ways of working, solve problems faster and make sustainability programs more efficient and scalable.

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitments 

Our unique approach is a product of our diverse perspectives. This diversity of backgrounds and cultures is essential in helping us maintain our momentum. Our business and technical challenges are unique, and we need as many different voices as possible to join us in solving them - voices like yours. No matter who you are or where you’re from, we welcome you to be your true self at Adyen. 

Studies show that women and members of underrepresented communities apply for jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Does this sound like you? If so, Adyen encourages you to reconsider and apply. We look forward to your application!

What’s next?

Ensuring a smooth and enjoyable candidate experience is critical for us. We aim to get back to you regarding your application within 7 business days. Our interview process tends to take about 4 weeks to complete, but may fluctuate depending on the role and summer season availabilities. Learn more about our hiring process here. Don’t be afraid to let us know if you need more flexibility.

Location & Work Expectations

• This role is based in Amsterdam.
• We have a hybrid workplace (3 days in-office) and value in-person collaboration; we do not offer remote-only roles