Senior Program Manager – Corporate Responsibility

Senior Program Manager – Corporate Responsibility

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience; masters or other advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years ESG/sustainability program management experience with significant responsibility progression.
• 3+ years of related experience in GHG accounting, inventory management, and performance tracking and reporting.
• Skilled in data gathering, aggregation, analysis, and visualization, with strong proficiency in Excel and PowerBI.
• Strong quantitative, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficient with ESG/corporate responsibility fundamentals with specific knowledge in sustainability, climate change, and GHG emissions accounting and current trends.
• Ability to plan and manage complex projects that may involve multiple technology platforms, and cross-project dependencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to distill complex sustainability concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences and present insights clearly.
• Demonstrated experience managing stakeholder expectations through clearly defined project objectives and focused execution against plans.
• Creative problem solver who is interested in understanding different points of view and new ways of approaching problems.
• Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills with strong ability to influence others and present ideas persuasively.
• Proven ability to be a self-starter, proactively identifying opportunities for improvement and taking initiative to drive projects forward both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to coordinate and collaborate with technical and data teams where needed.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage strategies and project plans in support of reducing the company’s GHG emissions.
• Lead the maintenance and annual updating of the organization’s GHG inventory, with support of external consultants, ensuring it accurately reflects emissions data across Scopes 1-3 in alignment with the GHG Protocol and Science-Based Targets Initiative guidance.
• Serve as a program thought leader to develop and maintain successful partnerships across all levels of our internal, globally distributed departments — and with external business partners alike — to drive awareness of our environmental commitments and collaborate on the effective strategy-development and execution to deliver on those commitments.
• Manage the collection, verification, and analysis of emissions and ESG data from different sources, ensuring accuracy and completeness. Implement quality control processes to validate data integrity and consistency, and address any discrepancies or issues identified during assurance, audits, or reviews.
• Support management of environmental topics including waste, water and biodiversity. May include benchmarking, cross-functional engagement, data collection and analysis and employee engagement opportunities.
• Utilize advanced data modeling techniques and dashboarding to accurately track and analyze GHG emissions, perform scenario analyses, monitor science-based targets, and visualize progress for strategic decision-making and communication.
• Ensure that the organization’s GHG inventory and other ESG disclosures comply with relevant frameworks and standards (e.g., GRI, SASB, TCFD) and regulations (e.g., ESRS/CSRD, SEC Climate Change) and may oversee the preparation and submission of reports as required to regulatory bodies, investors, raters and rankers (e.g., CDP, EcoVadis, ISS), customers, internal stakeholders, and certification organizations.
• Proactively and independently lead regular risk assessments with program stakeholders, tracing consequences to, from, and among projects; and anticipating impacts to benefit delivery, schedule, and cost.
• Distill and leverage data to develop evidence-based written and visual summaries of ESG performance for both internal and external audiences, including executive dashboards, scorecards, slide decks, and reports.
• Identify, develop, and execute small- to large-scale initiatives to improve GHG inventory and ESG disclosure processes, methodologies, and tools, and stay updated on best practices and evolving standards in GHG accounting and ESG reporting.

Preferred Qualifications

• masters or other advanced degree preferred.