At HP, our ambition is to become the world’s most sustainable and just technology company. Sustainable Impact is fundamental to HP’s reinvention journey – fueling our innovation and growth, strengthening our business for the long term, and enabling us to develop and deliver the best solutions for our customers. 

We are committed to developing and delivering an environmentally sustainable product portfolio, improving the sustainability of our own global operations, and partnering with our suppliers to reduce their environmental impact. We believe that our actions should address some of the greatest challenges we face as a society, including climate change, human rights, and digital equity.  

We are proud of the progress we have made on our Sustainable Impact commitments but know there’s still more work to do. Over the next decade, HP will stand for a new era of progress— where climate change is reversed, human rights are universally protected, and digital equity democratizes opportunity for all.

This is an opportunity to be part of that journey and to make a real positive and sustainable impact.

You can find more information on HP’s Sustainable Impact strategy and commitments at www.hp.com/sustainability, and in our latest Sustainable Impact Report.

Mission

You will actively contribute to ensuring compliance with sustainability legislation within our Global Sustainability Compliance Team. Focusing on transforming our processes, tools, and organization, you will play a key role in delivering efficient sustainability compliance. This involves supporting the development of automated compliance management tools, optimizing external detection services, and helping create an end-to-end view of the implementation status for sustainability requirements.

Additionally, you will collaborate with our team at HP to track, influence, and ensure compliance with legislative requirements, covering areas such as WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), batteries, packaging, eco design, waste shipment, materials, climate, supply chain responsibility, ESG, and the circular economy. Your efforts will help ensure that HP products are safe, legally compliant, responsibly manufactured, and exceed sustainability expectations for our customers.

This graduate role offers an exciting opportunity to develop sustainability knowledge, gain hands-on experience in managing compliance, and become an expert in key sustainability regulations and themes. You will be part of our Global Sustainability Compliance Team based at HP’s Barcelona office in Spain. English language skills are required, and Spanish or French proficiency is desirable.

Key Responsibilities

As Part Of This Role, You Will

• Support our sustainability compliance team to ensure HP products and services are compliant with sustainability regulations and legislation.
• Help us deliver efficient and effective sustainability compliance through transformation of our compliance processes, tools, and organization.
• Support the development of automated compliance detection and tracking tools, optimizing our external detection services, helping develop end to end tracking of compliance implementation.
• Support data management and migration, tool maintenance and quality assurance, and vendor management.
• Support the development and management of our compliance scorecard including the co-ordination of data collection.
• Support the Compliance Operations Manager to ensure compliance and manage compliance improvement projects.
• Support our team at HP to track, influence and ensure compliance with legislative requirements, including WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), batteries, packaging, eco design, waste shipment, materials, supply chain responsibility, ESG, climate and the circular economy.
• You may also support the team by developing draft policy analysis and compliance instructions that will be used to keep internal teams aware of the new legislation and convey the key requirements to the relevant implementation teams.
• By working closely with our team, you will develop your sustainability knowledge, your experience of managing sustainability compliance and your expertise of key sustainability regulations and themes.You will also develop your knowledge of WEEE (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment), batteries, packaging, eco design, waste shipment, materials, supply chain responsibility, ESG and the circular economy.
  
  

Required

Requirements & essential skills

• Passion for sustainability and drive to make a positive difference.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree with a significant management, IT, sustainability, or environmental policy focus (eg IT Management, Environmental Management, Environmental and Business, Geography, Environmental Policy, Environmental Law or equivalent.)
• English language skills (fluent).
• Enthusiasm, ability, and willingness to learn and adapt to new challenges.
• Ability to understand sustainability policy and compliance requirements and/or experience of data management, databases, or using Power BI.
• Strong quality orientation. Rigor and attention to details.
• Strong organizational and project management skills to keep track of tasks and ensure completion on time.
• Robust problem-solving abilities with the capacity to navigate dynamic situations, prioritize tasks, and act calmly and efficiently in a fast-paced, flexible environment.
• A curious mind and analytical approach to develop new ideas, proposals, and solutions.
• Strong team-working skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills. Good interpersonal skills to enable support for advocacy.
• Self-starter with the ability to work with minimal direct day-to-day supervision.
  
  

Desirable

• Work/internship experience in a business-related role.
• Academic projects focused on operations improvements and the development of IT applications are a strong plus.
• Interest in or understanding of the policy making process.
• Interest or understanding of one or more of the following areas: WEEE, batteries, packaging, eco design policy, waste shipment, materials, ESG, climate and the circular economy.
• Spanish or French language skills (conversational).
  
  

At HP, we believe in the power of ideas and that ideas thrive best in a culture of teamwork. That is why everyone – at every level in every function, is encouraged to have original ideas, to express them and to share them. We work across borders, and without limits. Global virtual teams share resources and pool their big ideas to solve business issues and meet personal goals. Everyone is valued for the unique skills, experiences and perspective they bring. This is how ideas and people grow.

We are looking for visionaries who are ready to make an impact on the way the world works.

At HP, the future is yours to create.

Thanks for taking the time to review our job, if you think it is a match to your experience and interests please apply today, we are eager to learn more about you. If you know a friend who may be a fit for the job, please refer them.   

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work in an international organization with colleagues coming from all over the world.
• Diverse, continued internal growth and career opportunities. Including HP’s own learning platform and LinkedIn Learning.
• An attractive benefits package:
• Health & Life insurance
• Lunch at reduced prices at our canteen/ ticket restaurant vouchers
• HP product discount
• Work life balance / flexible working hours.
• Women, Pride, Young employees, Sustainability and DisAbility! Just a few of our fantastic global business networks you can get involved with locally.
• We also dedicate time and resources to contribute with our community through Corporate Volunteering activities, including our onsite HP Charity day.
• Do you like to give back to the community? Then join one of our many volunteering teams or be a part of the incredible HP charity day held on site annually.
• Love sports? Then take advantage of our sports center (indoor and outdoor) with 25+ regular coordinated activities.
• We have an onsite Doctor and medical team for our employees, including services such as: nutrition, physiotherapy, and general health.
• Printing Happy hour – from photographs to large posters. And Hands-on workshops to print with the latest technology – from wall covers to 3D printed models.
• Dedicated lactation room
• Our Women Network organizes activities such as Networking, the promotion of STEM vocations, talks on, improving business acumen, work life balance and skills of the future, etc.