Acre is currently partnered with a global pharmaceutical company looking to bring in an ESG Manager. This position will have extensive visibility across the business, supporting the VP of Sustainability on Data analytics, reporting, and sustainability strategy.
Description
Reporting to the VP of ESG Programs and Reporting and sitting on the global ESG Team, you will support the implementation of the company's ESG strategies, and work across all three workstreams: preparation of sustainability data for reporting and assessments; amplification of the business' social impacts; and continuous process improvement and creation of documentation and governance structures.
The person who will succeed in this role will enjoy building, influencing, and making their mark on the full breadth and depth of an ESG function. This role is based in New Jersey and offers a hybrid working schedule of being onsite for 3 days per week.
Essential Functions
- Environmental Strategy - support the development, deployment and stakeholder buy-in for an enterprise level sustainability strategy, action plans, goal setting and targets.
- Filing Requirements - understand the different global regulatory frameworks and support the ESG and Finance teams with preparation of data, strategy andrisk related materials.
- Change Management - guide and influence stakeholders across the business in forging new mindsets and behaviors around sustainability data management and processes.
- Project Management - of new sustainability initiatives and ESG assessments from customers from ideation through to successful execution.
- Stakeholder Management - join the cross-functional Sustainability Taskforce, and partner with teams (Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, IT, Operations and Supply Chain) across the business to prepare the company for filing.
- Community Management - chair the recurring Company Foundation meetings, and encourage global employee participation.
- Social, External Communications & Promotion - partner with the Communications, Media Relations, and Investor Relations teams to promote the company’s impact on communities and the healthcare sector.
- Governance, Data Governance - leverage enterprise level, systems thinking to optimize and standardize data management processes, approvals and workflows to create accurate, timely and verifiable datasets that will be subject to auditing and assurance.
- Educating & Presenting - to cross-functional stakeholders and subject matter experts to align business leaders under a common vision and long-range agenda.
- Internal Reporting - prepare quarterly ESG dashboards for executives on key sustainability metrics, trends and action plans.
Qualifications for Internal Candidates
Education
- Bachelors Degree (BA/BS) Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent combination of education and business experience. - Required
- Master Degree (MBA) Preferred MBA or equivalent graduate qualifications. - Preferred
Experience
- 6 years or more in any combination of management consulting, sustainability, corporate social responsibility and/or project management experience.
- Ideally experience in healthcare/pharmaceuticals managing global sustainability data and reporting with a publicly listed or privately held US company, that completed voluntary ESG disclosure.
Skills
- Education and awareness raising across the business and with key stakeholders - Intermediate
- Meticulous data governance, documentation and process delivery - Advanced
- Strategic, systems thinking with ability to synthesize and recommend efficiencies and synergies - Intermediate
- Accurate preparation of materials for submission to government authorities - Advanced
- Project management from ideation through to execution - Advanced
- Strong written and verbal communication, including exemplary presentation skills - Advanced
- Change management, stakeholder management and influencing capabilities - Intermediate
- Commercial acumen and application of enterprise level problem solving - Intermediate
- Partnership with key internal stakeholders including Finance, Legal, Internal Audit, IT, Operations, Supply Chain and Communications - Intermediate
- Partner with sustainability vendors and firms to co-create results - Intermediate
- Prepare company for assessment, audit and assurance requirements - Intermediate
Specialized Knowledge
- Global sustainability regulatory requirements
- Greenhouse gas emissions, measurement and reduction targets
- Corporate sustainability strategy and assessments
- Corporate social responsibility and philanthropy
- Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging strategy implementation
