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Saori Yano

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Sr Program Manager, Sustainability at Amazon
📍 Brazil

Saori Yano is the Head of Sustainability for Amazons Operations in Brazil, where she leads the strategy for the companys goal to be net-zero carbon by 2040. She has over 25 years of experience, primarily from her long tenure at Toyota, where she was a Sustainability Manager and Executive Director of the Toyota Foundation. Colleagues describe her as dedicated and empathetic.

She is passionate about creating positive social and environmental impact that extends into local communities. This is evident in her leadership of corporate foundations and her current work using Amazons large-scale logistics to support the Amazon bioeconomy and its indigenous producers. She also invests in developing others as an MBA professor.

Saori spent the first 23 years of her career at Toyota, where she started as an intern.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Sr Program Manager, Sustainability
Job Level
Middle
Location
Brazil
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Amazon Bioeconomy
Leads Amazon's partnership with Rede Origens Brasil, connecting over 5,000 producers from the Amazon to a national e-commerce market.
Decarbonization Strategy
She is responsible for developing and implementing the roadmap for Amazon's Brazil operations to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040.
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Career

Work history

4-2021
Sr Program Manager, Sustainability
Amazon
12-2020
MBA Professor
UFSCar - Universidade Federal de São Carlos
1-2019 - 11-2020
Regional Sustainability Manager (LATAM)
Toyota do Brasil
10-2016 - 12-2019
Executive Director
Fundação Toyota do Brasil
1-2016 - 11-2020
Sustainability Manager
Toyota do Brasil
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Education
1-2023 - 2-2023
Especialização
MIT xPRO
3-2025 - 5-2025
Programa de Preparação para Conselheiros
FIA Business School
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