Director, Strategic Initiatives - ESG Climate and Nature

Position Summary...

About the Team…
Walmart seeks to lead on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) practices, disclosures, and outcomes, building a stronger and more resilient business, creating shared value, and fostering trust.

About the Position…
The Director, Strategic Initiatives – ESG Climate & Nature is responsible for leading Walmart’s efforts across a portfolio of ESG priority issues, including shaping Walmart’s shared value agenda; overseeing Walmart’s disclosures, practices and ratings; building corresponding institutional capability across the enterprise; and helping to advance the field of ESG externally with respect to their assigned issue portfolio, which will include climate and nature-related issues. This position reports to the Senior Director, ESG Strategy. Top candidates will have experience in climate and nature-related ESG issues including GHG emissions, renewable energy, land conversion, health and sustainability of biodiversity and natural ecosystems; be familiar with ESG reporting frameworks; and have experience engaging with institutional investors and internal/external stakeholders.

What you'll do...

• Shape disclosures and report on a defined issue portfolio for investor and other stakeholder audiences. Craft and produce strong ESG disclosures, adhering to existing and emerging regulatory reporting standards, particularly on climate topics. Develop ESG messaging and work with other members of the ESG team, Investor Relations, and Corporate Communications on the strategy to reach target audiences, including through ESG reporting, direct investor and other stakeholder engagement, and other channels.
• Serve as Walmart’s ESG subject matter expert for a defined issue portfolio. Stay updated on the latest developments in your issue portfolio, particularly in the regulatory space, and own policies, programs, processes, and projects related to shared value aspects of your portfolio. Take a global perspective on emerging frameworks, policies, and practices. Maintain a robust network of peers and collaborators internally and externally to bring leading insights to your work.
• Define and drive Walmart’s ESG agenda for a defined issue portfolio. Collaborate with relevant subject-matter experts to define Walmart’s aspiration; key goals and metrics; shared value approach; policies, practices, and disclosures; and challenges for each issue in your portfolio.
• Help advance the ESG disclosure and assessment sector. Advocate for frameworks and assessments that support long-termism, creation of shared value, regeneration, global perspective, and the transformation of societal systems for social and environmental sustainability. Participate in external events to highlight Walmart’s shared value strategy and best practices in your issue portfolio.
• Lead cross-functional workstreams. Coordinate efforts to achieve policy, practice, and disclosure outcomes, including conducting deep analyses on issue portfolio to enhance Walmart’s understanding of issues and risk.   
• Help advance the ESG disclosure and assessment sector. Advocate for ESG frameworks, standards and assessments that foster long-termism, creation of shared value (“stakeholder capitalism”), and the transformation of societal systems for social and environmental sustainability. Identify and speak at external ESG events to highlight Walmart’s shared value strategy as well as share perspectives on best practices in your issue portfolio.
• Manage multiple large, complex projects, processes, and programs. Oversee multiple large projects, ensuring dependencies across groups are identified and goals, success criteria, assumptions, and risks are well-managed.  
• Drive the execution of multiple business plans and projects. Develop and commu