Director of Sustainability Reporting

Job Title: Director of Sustainability Reporting

Location: Plano, TX

*No Sponsorship is provided*

Job Description

Overview

The Strategy and Transformation function plays a critical role in accelerating sustainable growth by driving strategic choices, delivering breakthrough enterprise capabilities, optimizing service delivery excellence, and executing end-to-end transformations for the organization. The Strategy and Transformation organization works across all functions, collaborating with functional and sector stakeholders to deliver technology solutions and operational services in support of their business strategies.

Job purpose:

Primary Transformation leader focused on identifying and implementing digital capabilities, processes, and services to help drive the transformation of voluntary and regulatory Sustainability reporting agenda. This role is responsible for ensuring we are designing and building robust data and reporting solutions to enable accurate, traceable, and timely reporting of voluntary, regulatory, and other performance management-related reporting of Sustainability metrics. The scope includes all of the pep+ voluntary reporting obligations, regulatory reporting obligations such as CSRD, SEC, etc., and other tracking and performance management capabilities such as glide path forecasting, data outlier detection, proactive insights, etc. This role will also be the primary lead ensuring Sustainability metrics are appropriately included in other performance management reporting.

This role will also be responsible for transforming internal demand management processes to ensure evaluation and consideration of embedding Sustainability requirements into digital transformation programs in a pragmatic way. Objectives will include identifying where, and influencing how to drive global collaboration and strategy development across a multi-function ecosystem that includes Procurement, Agriculture, R&D, Finance, etc. Scope includes strategy, pursuit, and driving investment execution through internal capability teams.

Responsibilities

• Implement product vision and strategy, ideation, roadmaps, and value identification focused on pep+/ESG goal-tracking capabilities
• Will define, drive, and own the roadmap for all Sustainability voluntary, regulatory, and performance management reporting
• Partner with Sectors and BUs to align product and services roadmaps
• Capture, refine, and codify requirements for various Sustainability reporting solutions, including glide path trending, forecasting, and other data/reporting needs as needed
• Lead the analysis, design, and build of capabilities that will significantly improve our data management and reporting capabilities for Sustainability
• Drive improvement in overall data readiness and data quality supporting voluntary and regulatory Sustainability reporting agenda.
• Leverage prior experience in Sustainability reporting to identify incremental capabilities that will enable more efficient and streamlined Sustainability reporting
• Deliver intuitive analytics dashboards, scorecards, and exception reporting that empower the global organization to easily explore and access the information required
• Identify and develop advanced analytics capabilities around sustainability by leveraging best-in-class practices and cutting-edge technologies to look ahead and develop insights to shape the future of sustainability within our business.
• Engage and collaborate with sustainability teams based in sectors globally, R&D/portfolio transformation teams, and others implementing sustainability solutions globally to ensure requirements for internal reporting and external reporting are being met
• Stay current with trends in Sustainability reporting, including approaches to Scopes 1, 2, and 3 data management and reporting
• Work with the internal Capabilities team (IT) to identify talent and build teams to get work completed
• Build product management expertise in the Transformation team to drive a product development mindset for the Sustainability area
• Establish and maintain productive relationships with senior business leaders, as well as the Delivery, Development, and Support functions
• Become a subject matter expert in Sustainability reporting, and its supporting solutions, and work with business partners to establish and maintain a 5-year Global Capabilities Roadmap
• Drive awareness and availability of relevant, quality Sustainability data for use by internal teams in decision-making (Democratize access to Sustainability data more broadly)
• Participate and represent in several working committees and cross-functional councils focused on driving improvement to overall Sustainability reporting
• Help our business convert high-level needs into fundable and executable projects by defining scope, requirements, value propositions/business cases, and estimates of work required to deliver
• Keep abreast of both internal technologies and solutions (e.g., new technical solutions being identified and developed by our Data/Analytics & AI teams and digital Product teams) and external technologies and solutions relevant to Sustainability
• Act as a point of escalation when unexpected issues and/or new requirements are surfaced, and tactfully guide those issues to resolution
• Coach and develop team members by driving accountability, ownership, and commitment to values
• Drive solution design and architecture by collaborating with Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architects, and relevant digital platform teams
• Accountable for implementing the appropriate resource strategies to ensure full support of deployed capabilities within the area of responsibility
• Navigate complex matrixed environment to ensure business outcomes are achieved
• Act as an internal consultant to Sustainability business teams on digital capabilities and potential use cases
• Responsible for managing funded projects and ensuring business value delivery
• Ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of initiatives that satisfies project requirements, while adhering to architecture standards
• Manage work intake, prioritization, and release timing, balancing demand and available resources. Ensure tactical initiatives are aligned with the strategic vision and business needs
• Drive Agile product delivery

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, Data Science, Engineering or related field
• Master’s degree or MBA in Sustainability, Engineering or related technical fields strongly preferred
• Experience in Sustainability and Sustainability tracking/reporting tools and approaches required
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience leading/implementing Business Intelligence/Data Analytics/ Data Management implementation teams
• Demonstrated, a strong understanding of architecture and foundational Data Management domains (Data Architecture, Data Integration, Master Data Management, and Data Governance)
• Experience with statistical programming languages (R, Python), predictive analysis techniques and tools, and data visualization and reporting tools such as Power BI (nice to have).
• Previous experience in a fast-paced environment is desired; previous experience in a CPG company is a plus
• Previous experience designing and building data management and reporting solutions for Sustainability, including Scopes 1, 2, and 3
• Demonstrated experience gathering, analyzing, distilling, and summarizing business requirements
• Ability to communicate technical and complex subject matter to leaders in business terms
• Proven track record of building consensus among diverse stakeholders
• Highly self-motivated individual capable of managing multiple initiatives simultaneously
• Strong collaboration and facilitation skills, able to lead groups of people through complex/ambiguous concepts

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years working closely on global and sector-level projects, including business case creation, sell-in, and project mobilization.
• Understanding of digital transformation, industry standards, solution architecture, and trends in related technologies.
• Ability to listen and build rapport and credibility as a strategic partner vertically within the business unit or function, as well as with leadership and functional teams
• Strategic thinker focused on business value results that utilize technical solutions
• Ability to set expectations with business partners and effectively use governance for a positive business partner experience