Director, Climate & Energy

Job Summary:

WHO ARE WE?

Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide.  Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.

WHO ARE YOU?

Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on! 

THE ROLE

As Director, Climate & Energy, you will lead the implementation of Live Nation's global decarbonization and climate resilience strategy with an initial focus on operational emissions (Scope 1 & 2) related to our venues, festivals, and offices. This role will report into the Sr. Director Global Sustainability and work with cross-functional teams including legal, finance, procurement, operations, risk, compliance and more to develop and deliver a comprehensive and sound strategy that delivers against our sustainability goals while assuring the company is prepared for and compliant with external mandates. This role offers flexible job location within the United States.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO

• Lead global decarbonization strategy and implementation:
  • Manage our global decarbonization strategy across our portfolio of 200+ venues, festivals, and offices worldwide.
  • Partner with key internal and external stakeholders on the successful implementation of our strategy
  • Track and communicate performance against global climate targets
  • Serve as an internal subject matter expert on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainability performance metrics
• Climate Risk Management:
  • Work in partnership with global compliance and risk teams to integrate climate risk into enterprise risk management
  • Implement climate risk mitigation strategies, key metrics and action plans
  • Develop climate risk mitigation plans, policies, training, and protocols to assure climate resilience
  • Collaborate with divisions to provide training and awareness on climate risk management best practices
  • Support the development of a climate risk dashboard to record and track progress against climate risks
  • Support internal risk and compliance team to prioritize risks and develop controls to mitigate risks
  • Identify risk owners and support those owners in defining their process, controls and metrics
  • Work with risk and compliance teams to assure centralized risk register is updated and maintained including identified risks, assessments, risk owners, and mitigation plans
  • Perform sites specific risk assessments where needed
  • Set targets and implementation plans not covered by decarbonization target e.g. venue sustainable design standards & building energy performance standards
  • Develop and implement process for tracking capital expenditures tied to climate risk management & mitigation
• Compliance and Environmental Reporting:
  • Ensure the company’s environmental and climate risk practices align with regulatory guidelines; establish systems and processes for tracking internal compliance & communicating to the business
  • Lead on the development of climate related reporting mandates including but not limited to TCFD, CDP, and SEC climate risk disclosures
  • Compile and provide other necessary environmental data to compliance team for other external reporting requirements
• Communication and Engagement:
  • Build strong relationships with cross-functional internal teams as well as external partners and be comfortable championing sustainability with a variety of audiences – from executives to venue and festival operations teams.
  • Lead on internal comm