Position PurposeThe Government Affairs Lead is an enterprise-level, strategic role responsible for maximizing Owens Corning's influence as a leading building products manufacturer across the policy and trade association landscape.
The role shapes and advances policy advocacy and trade association strategies that support long-term growth, protect market access, and reinforce Owens Corning's competitive advantages. This includes influencing legislative, regulatory, incentive-based, insurance-driven, and standards-based policy outcomes that directly affect the building products industry.
The position spans multiple businesses and trade associations and is a key enabler of Owens Corning's standardized operating model for external engagement, ensuring advocacy efforts are enterprise-aligned, intentional, scalable, and focused on the issues that matter most to the business.
What Success Looks Like- Owens Corning is positioned for maximum influence across trade associations, policy forums, and standards-based processes that are most critical to business performance.
- External engagement is enterprise-aligned, intentional, and repeatable, rather than dependent on individual roles or relationships.
- Business leaders have clear ownership of priorities and decisions, supported by strong enterprise-level governance, advocacy, and coordination.
- Policy objectives-whether legislative, regulatory, incentive-based, insurance-related, or standards-based-are integrated and mutually reinforcing, rather than operating in silos.
- Engagement intensity and focus are aligned to business priority, risk, and opportunity, not equally distributed across all issues or businesses.
Key ResponsibilitiesEnterprise Trade Association Strategy & Influence- Develop and advance enterprise-level strategies for engaging trade associations as platforms for influence.
- Advise on governance structures, committee participation, leadership roles, and escalation pathways to ensure Owens Corning is positioned to shape outcomes.
- Align trade association engagement with enterprise priorities, business strategies, and long-range growth objectives.
- Partner with business leaders to determine where trade associations provide the greatest leverage against priority risks and opportunities.
Policy & Advocacy Strategy- Monitor, analyze, and assess legislative, regulatory, and policy developments affecting Owens Corning's businesses, customers, and end-markets.
- Partner with business leaders, Legal, Sustainability, and other functions to develop integrated advocacy strategies addressing key policy objectives, which may include:
- manufacturing competitiveness and housing affordability
- sustainability initiatives (e.g., recycled content, circularity, EPR)
- incentives and tax credit structures
- insurance-driven building requirements
- building codes and product standards adoption
- Coordinate engagement through trade associations, coalitions, and external advisors to advance aligned policy outcomes.
Cross-Business Enterprise Alignment- Provide enterprise-level policy insight, issue framing, and context to inform business-led prioritization and decision-making.
- Enable visibility, consistency, and alignment across businesses on policy and trade association activities.
- Support coordinated enterprise positions while respecting business ownership of priorities.
Governance, Risk, and Operating Model Enablement- Ensure adherence to lobbying, disclosure, and trade association governance requirements.
- Institutionalize scalable processes, playbooks, and engagement frameworks that support consistent execution across the enterprise.
- Strengthen continuity by reducing reliance on individual facilitation and enabling repeatable engagement approaches.
- Support effective knowledge transfer and role transitions related to policy and trade association engagement.
Scope of the Role- Enterprise-level, multi-BU in scope
- Covers multiple trade associations and policy advocacy platforms
- Strategic in nature, with emphasis on direction, leverage, and influence, rather than day-to-day facilitation or committee management
Qualifications & ExperienceRequired- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree in public policy, law, business, engineering, or related field preferred.
- 8-12+ years of relevant experience in government affairs, public policy, regulatory engagement, and/or trade association leadership.
- Experience operating within complex, matrixed organizations, with the ability to navigate ambiguity and drive alignment across stakeholders.
- Ability to influence without authority, including advising business leaders and cross-functional partners.
- Strong strategic thinking, analytical capability, and clear, executive-ready communication skills.
Preferred- Experience within building products, manufacturing, construction materials, or related industrial sectors.
- Familiarity with how policy, trade associations, and standards-based advocacy intersect to shape market and regulatory outcomes.
- Experience supporting advocacy across multiple business segments or geographies.
Why This RoleThis role exists to ensure Owens Corning engages externally with discipline, scale, and strategic intent-maximizing influence where it matters most and enabling the business-led operating model required to succeed in a complex and dynamic policy environment.
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