Director, Environmental Sustainability- Business Partnerships

The Director of Environmental Sustainability - Business Partnerships at Cox Enterprises, based in Atlanta, GA, will lead sustainability initiatives, consulting across divisions to achieve Cox Conserves targets. Responsibilities include strategic leadership, effective communication with executive leadership, and managing a team to drive environmental impact reduction. Candidates should have a relevant degree and extensive experience in sustainability and business operations.
About the position

The Director of Environmental Sustainability - Business Partnerships at Cox Enterprises is responsible for influencing and consulting on sustainable business operational decisions to achieve Cox Conserves targets. This role acts as a bridge between technical experts across all divisions, leading sustainability projects and programs while managing a team to support divisional partners. The position requires strategic leadership, effective communication of sustainability initiatives, and the ability to consult across divisions to drive end-to-end change management.

Responsibilities
• Develop methods to communicate Cox Conserves strategy cross-divisionally.
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• Provide leadership support between Cox Conserves and Cox Divisions.
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• Communicate progress effectively to executive audiences, including Executive Leadership, to report Cox's progress toward sustainability goals.
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• Deeply understand all business operations and drivers to identify critical environmental impact inflection points.
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• Drive conversation and advise senior divisional and operational leaders on key impact drivers and business benefits to reducing environmental impacts.
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• Influence divisional leaders to prioritize achieving Cox Conserves targets, equipping them on the evolving business benefits.
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• Oversee engagement with relevant Cox Facilities and Operations teams to identify and address operational opportunities to reduce environmental impacts.
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• Lead and support a team in their partnerships with each relevant division.
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• Support, communicate, and develop strong relationships with stakeholders.
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• Meet regularly with stakeholders to resolve performance disparity across teams, regions, and departments.
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• Support sustainability projects and programs led by other team members as business-unit operations subject matter experts.

Requirements
• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline and 10 years' experience in a related field, or a master's degree and 8 years' experience, or a Ph.D. and 5 years' experience in a related field.
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• In-depth knowledge of diverse business functions and principles (e.g., supply chain, finance, customer service).
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• Ability to create and manage high-trust relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
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• Expertise in negotiating and advocating on behalf of key stakeholders and managing conflict.
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• Sustainability background and experience in various subject matter areas (e.g., energy, water, waste, biodiversity).
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• Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings and site visits with a variety of stakeholders.
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• Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills.
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• Experience identifying, measuring, communicating, and managing key program performance indicators.
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• Ability to influence and impact while managing multiple complex priorities.
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• Strong business acumen and ability to perform and present financial analyses and business cases to various audiences, including executive leaders.
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• Experience producing and delivering relevant progress reports and readouts in complex, matrixed organizations.
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• Ability to analyze large datasets, using insights to generate actionable recommendations and forecast potential impact scenarios.

Nice-to-haves
• A master's degree in a related field.
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• Direct experience with the Cox divisional environmental council/green team, preferably in a functional program leadership role.
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• Experience or formal training in Greenhouse Gas (GhG) Protocol and other common sustainability reporting frameworks (GRI, SASB, TCFD, SBTi).
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• Experience solving organizational challenges in environmentally sustainable operations.
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• Strong understanding of change management and human-centered design principles, practices, and tools.
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• Experience communicating sustainability issues across varying audiences and expertise levels.
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• Experience developing workflow and dataflow diagrams.
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• Experience successfully negotiating and managing vendor relationships.
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• PgMP certification or PMP with demonstrated program management experience.

Benefits
• Flexible vacation policy allowing employees to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties.
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• Seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
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• Up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for personal or family wellness.
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• Additional paid time off for bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, parental leave, and COVID-19 vaccination leave.
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• Health care insurance (medical, dental, vision).
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• Retirement planning (401(k)).
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• Paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).