Director, Environmental Sustainability- Business Partnerships

Company

Cox Enterprises

Job Family Group

Environmental, Social & Governance

Job Profile

Director, Environmental Sustainability

Management Level

Director

Flexible Work Option

Hybrid - Ability to work remotely part of the week

Travel %

Yes, 50% of the time

Work Shift

Day

Compensation

Compensation includes a base salary of $129,100.00 - $215,100.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate’s knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.

Job Description

The Director of Environmental Sustainability- Business Partnerships will influence and consult on sustainable business operational decisions to support the achievement of Cox Conserves targets and act as a bridge between technical experts across all Cox Divisions.  This role will be responsible for sustainability project/program commitments on behalf of the impacted business and operation’s teams that often require extensive knowledge of operational hurdles and partnering across many teams and leaders to execute end-to-end change management.

Designed to help maximize the efficiency of Cox Conserves targets and projects, this role requires strategic leadership, effective communication of sustainability initiatives, and the ability to consult and support cross-divisionally sustainability goals. This role will also lead by influence across the team and manage staff to support the divisional partners across the company.

The Director is responsible for leading a team of individuals focused on communicating the Cox Conserves initiatives by leveraging their relationship and partnership with individuals and teams across more than 800 Cox facilities.

Responsibilities:

• Develop methods to communicate Cox Conserves strategy cross-divisionally.

• Provide leadership support between Cox Conserves and Cox Divisions.

• Communicate progress effectively to executive audiences, including Executive Leadership, to report Cox’s progress toward sustainability goals

• Deeply understand all business operations and drivers to identify critical environmental-outcome inflection points. 

• Drive conversation and advise senior divisional and operational leaders to educate them on key impact drivers and business benefits to reducing and mitigating environmental impacts. 

• Influence divisional leaders at all levels to prioritize achieving Cox Conserves targets, keeping them fully equipped on the evolving business benefits of doing so, including brand, employment brand, government relations, efficiency, cost, and revenue benefits. 

• Oversee the engagement with relevant Cox, Facilities, and Operations teams to identify and address operational opportunities to reduce the environmental impacts of business activity. 

• Lead and support a team in their partnerships with each relevant division.

• Support, communicate, and develop strong relationships with stakeholders.

• Meeting regularly with stakeholders and working to resolve performance disparity across teams, regions, and departments.

• Supporting sustainability projects and programs led by other team members as business-unit operations subject matter experts.

Skills:

• Soft Skills:

  • Executive presence, business acumen, relationship building, collaboration, teamwork, communication, ability to upskill in new areas quickly, leadership, organization, and conflict resolution.

• Technical Skills:

  • Data analysis, root cause analysis, excel, understanding of environmental issues and associated Cox Conserves targets. 

• Project/Program Management Skills:

  • Time/task management, problem-solving, critical thinking, adaptability, conflict resolution, project planning, project scoping, creating project/pillar charters, facilitating meetings, mapping milestones, timelines, and key outcomes, task management, Smartsheets, Microsoft Suite, workload and cost management. 

Job Qualifications – Experience/Education/Training:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 10 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and 8 years’ experience, a Ph.D. and 5 years’ experience in a related field.

• In-depth knowledge of diverse business functions and principles (e.g., supply