Senior Environmental Sustainability Manager

Job Description:
Workhuman is currently seeking a passionate environmental sustainability expert to join our emerging ESG team. This position will report to our Director, ESG and combines elements of reporting (data collection process implementation, validation, and attestation), strategy, team collaboration, and engagement of working groups to deliver and report targets aligned with business goals. This person will also engage with customers to answer questions and discuss Workhuman's ESG strategy.
This role requires a combination of environmental reporting as well as strategy and goal setting. The ideal candidate is an expert in data collection and is well versed in the major ESG reporting frameworks. They will also have proven experience building cross-functional stakeholder engagement programs and supporting strategy development.
The Role:

• Support the Director, ESG and CHXO with development and adoption of Workhuman's overall ESG program strategy. Primarily focusing on environmental sustainability at the start
• Develop a high level 'roadmap' with key milestones for Workhuman to achieve our ESG objectives, including recommending a plan of prioritized activities for disclosure against leading ESG frameworks
• Act as the point of contact and Workhuman representative for all RFP and customer requests as well as being the face of Workhuman's ESG program
• Support annual risk assessment and coordinates alignment with internal stakeholders to evaluate ESG risk reviews
• Support leadership engagement, reviews and content submission; ensures the Executive team has clear sight lines to individual obligations and deadlines
• Integrate risk results into annual ESG Reporting Framework development process
• Ensure the Executive team has clear sight lines to individual obligations and deadlines
• Project manage and develop engagement calendar and agenda for stakeholders
• Contribute subject matter expertise to initiative development
• Creates annual ESG Reporting by tracking working group priorities, KPIs and overall initiative portfolio, mapping the impact and progress to material topics
• Track and validate working group decarbonization efforts and their impact against organizational targets
• Engage Internal Partners (HR, Supplier Management, Sales & Marketing, Communications, et al.) to:
  
  • Develop and coordinate strategy that establish and/or advances ESG goals applicable to Workhuman's sector
  • Raise awareness of ESG commitments and progress to stakeholders, including the investment community
  • Develop content for the ESG portion of the IR website, working with internal partners to build out and refresh content
  • Develop content review process for Board and shareholder reporting
• Evaluate and coordinate consulting efforts to support scope of work execution and reporting
• Regularly executes proactive third-party management and reporting on third party accomplishments and on-time deliverables
• Annual development and implementation of the ESG reporting framework and indicator measurement methodologies in alignment with material topics, working group priorities, KPIs and reference reporting frameworks
• Configuration of reporting framework and indicator measurement methodologies in applicable systems, authoring applications and project management tools including executable, and future state audit-ready validation procedures
• Reporting scope determination and validation
• Reviews and coordinates customer inquiries/responses and quickly deliver data requests
• Serves as subject matter expert (SME) on Workhuman's prior year disclosures, their evolution, and their impact to delivering progress on targets and commitments in current year disclosure processes

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 8+ years of experience with 3-5 years relevant experience such as Corporate ESG, Financial Services, Big 4, ESG Advisory
• Subject Matter Expert in carbon footprint measurement, reporting and frameworks (TCFD, CDP, SBTi)
• Experience with reporting standards and frameworks (SASB, CDP, TCFD, SBTi, UNSDG, GRI, IR, Etc.)
• Strong understanding of ESG assessments and ratings (CDP, DJSI, MSCI, Ecovadis, ISS, Sustainalytics)
• Planning & analytical - capable of quickly synthesizing large amounts of data and aligning to relevant context for management reporting
• Cross-functional leadership - builds strong team foundation and collegial, reciprocal relationships across the organization
• Project Management - proactively resets team course to efficiently deploy team resources against shifting priorities
• Risk and materiality assessment and articulation, including gap analysis
• Advanced MS Excel & MS Word

The Company:
At Workhuman® our mission is to bring more humanity to the workplace. We recognise and embrace individuals' differences and believe that workforce diversity and inclusion are essential to our long-term growth and success. Even if you don't think you "check every single box" above, please still consider applying. We're looking for a human who is collaborative, and innovative with a growth mindset. We love what we do because we're shaping the future of work through our people and our technology. Our human cloud-based applications are helping some of the world's leading global brands connect culture to shared purpose. The Workhuman Cloud empowers employees to thank, talk and celebrate each other, creating an environment that sparks gratitude and human connection while increasing employee engagement and productivity.
Did you know we have an award-winning culture across EMEA and North America:

• We were named as #5 Best Workplace in the Great Place to Work Awards in Ireland in 2022 in the large sized workplace category. We were also recognised as a Best Workplace for Women and a Best Workplace in Technology in 2020, 2021 and 2022.
• In 2021 we were named as #2 Best Workplace in Europe in the medium sized workplace category.
• We were also recognised as #2 Best Large Places to Work in Boston by Built In for 2023 as well as a Best Place to Work in Boston, U.S. Best Large Places to Work and U.S. Best Places to Work.
• There are currently over 7.5 million users on the Workhuman® cloud across 180 countries.
• Our core values are Respect, Determination, Innovation and Imagination.

Workhuman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees. We proudly provide a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions at Workhuman are based on solely on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex (including pregnancy), age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Workhuman believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.