Published: August 29, 2024 – The Corporate Responsibility Manager defines and implements the Corporate Responsibility (CR) strategy, with a focus on integrating CR into the company and establishing comprehensive reporting in collaboration with the finance team. This role involves overseeing global CR programs, managing data collection and reporting to ensure consistency with regulatory and company standards, and supporting the Global Marketing department with employee communication and branding. Additionally, the manager plays a pivotal role in developing new CR services, responds to client requests, and leads initiatives to enhance social value across the company's ecosystem.
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1. Corporate Responsibility Manager, Green Initiatives Solutions, Austin, TX
Job Summary:
- Build out and manage the company’s sustainability-specific education initiatives, building awareness and skills across the organization in this area
- Provide thought leadership for the company’s long-term corporate responsibility plan along with the strategies required to deliver against the established goals
- Manage corporate responsibility reporting as well as lead completion of any internal audits or external certifications
- Partner with corporate communications to prepare the corporate responsibility annual report as well as various internal and external communication
- Review best practices and develop policies and programs to advance corporate responsibility for the organization
- Lead and/or coordinate corporate responsibility-related events
- Manage the financial donations program, setting strategy as well as working directly with current and prospective partners
- Serve as an internal consultant on Corporate Responsibility matters
- Enable cross-functional execution of the CR strategy by ensuring appropriate resources, processes and tools are in place
- Partner with key stakeholders to support the execution of high-priority strategic CR programs and initiatives
- Cultivate actionable insights by managing the strategy scorecard/progress report and analyzing performance trends
- Lead strategy formulation initiatives to help answer priority questions, solve problems, and drive critical business actions and decisions around corporate responsibility
- Mobilize employees by raising awareness, creating opportunities for engagement and facilitating training events
- Enable and support external stakeholder engagement by supporting customer inquiries and engaging on key stakeholder initiatives
Skills on Resume:
- Sustainability Education Management (Hard Skills)
- Thought Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Responsibility Reporting & Audits (Hard Skills)
- Communications Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Policy Development (Hard Skills)
- Event Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Financial Donations Strategy Management (Hard Skills)
- Internal Consulting (Soft Skills)
2. Corporate Responsibility Manager, Community Impact Ventures, Denver, CO
Job Summary:
- Develop and implement the CSR strategy for the Asia region
- Follow up on social and environmental audits and evaluations of campaign progress, and accompany the supplier corrective action plan implementation
- Monitor and Review CSR Procedures for Asia factories
- Establish the processes and the methodology in the region for sustainability reporting
- Develop partnerships with NGOs and suppliers to promote local community livelihood
- Accompany the internal entities and external partners in establishing waste management procedures, and identifying recyclers
- Organize supplier workshops to update on ethical requirements, share best practices and provide guidance to them
- Promote best social & environmental practices within the Asia region
- Lead and embed the Social Value agenda and ensure delivery of the roadmap objectives to create a meaningful impact for the community, clients and consumers we serve
- Drive delivery of the 4 key pillars of the Social Value strategy - Financial education of consumers, education in communities, provision of research and analysis, data & insight
- Create/facilitate and/or support external training programs
- Work closely with an external provider to measure, monitor and report internally and externally on the performance of social impact initiatives
- Embed social value and sustainability into product solutions, processes and procedures for the delivery of current projects and future sales opportunities
- Execute programs and partnerships by the corporate contribution policy and external regulations and procedures
- Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to the appropriate staff
Skills on Resume:
- CSR Strategy Development (Hard Skills)
- Social & Environmental Audit Follow-Up (Hard Skills)
- Sustainability Reporting Methodology (Hard Skills)
- NGO and Supplier Partnership Development (Soft Skills)
- Waste Management Procedure Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Supplier Workshop Organization (Soft Skills)
- Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Social Impact Measurement & Reporting (Hard Skills)
3. Corporate Responsibility Manager, EcoSustain Corp, Raleigh, NC
Job Summary:
- Engage closely with the global team of experts whose programs focus on responsible materials and finishes, climate and energy, waste and circularity, ethical production and human rights, worker well-being, values-based brand marketing and storytelling, and ESG strategy.
- Ensures teams' strategies and activities are developed in alignment with overarching corporate objectives and obtain cross-functional buy-in for implementation, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Leverage internal and external data sources, lead consolidated team approach for data-driven sustainability and social impact decision-making, reporting, system development, metrics, and KPIs
- Drive progress to goals, streamline related data collection and reporting, facilitate communication around the progress to goals, and elevate risks and opportunities.
- Assesses and analyses company policies and processes to identify areas and processes to which improvements can be made by the organisations commitment to sustainability.
- Brainstorms and identifies creative ways in which the company can balance business obligations to respect, support, and improve the local and global environments.
- Maintains current working knowledge of, and ensures compliance with, all applicable local, state, federal, and internal laws and regulations.
- Develop and manage corporate responsibility and sustainability partnerships, programs, or campaigns for Thailand to enhance social impact and license to operate
- Build the company's reputation by cultivating relationships with the appropriate stakeholders, including local and global nongovernmental organizations, international development organizations, customers, and partners
- Represent the company at external functions
- Partner collaboratively with businesses and functions to guide and identify corporate responsibility priorities to support their business strategy
- Drive implementation of corporate responsibility policies, tools, and processes
- Provide insights and knowledge of corporate responsibility principles, theories, concepts, and analysis for a specific region and social or environmental impact priority
Skills on Resume:
- Global Team Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Cross-Functional Buy-In (Soft Skills)
- Data-Driven Sustainability Decision-Making (Hard Skills)
- Progress Monitoring & Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Policy & Process Improvement Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Creative Sustainability Solutions (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance & Knowledge (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Relationship Cultivation (Soft Skills)
4. Corporate Responsibility Manager, Sustainable Growth Partners, Portland, OR
Job Summary:
- Responsible for defining, implementing and reporting on the CR strategy for Majorel, playing a leading role on the integration of CR in Majorel
- Take a leading role in establishing CR reporting and non-financial reporting (EU Taxonomy Regulation, Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) as part of the annual reporting in cooperation with finance team
- Define the CR strategy for external rating and benchmarking
- Take a leading role in managing data and reporting to several stakeholders, overseeing the collection of data from owned and managed assets, driving consistency and completeness in line with mandatory and company requirements
- Coordinate of global CR program
- Support Global Marketing department with employee communication and branding
- Set up and conduct employee surveys related to the CR strategy of Majorel
- Act as a member of compliance panel (e.g., Health and Safety compliances)
- Responsible for continuously driving the CR focus pillars and related topics
- Take a leading role in the proposition of new CR-themed Majorel Services and create CR insights about existing services which contribute to client satisfaction and drive new sales activities
- Answer client requests on all CR matters in cooperation with the Global sales department
- Lead a team of internal Social Value volunteers and work closely with clients and suppliers to influence and increase the impact across the ecosystem and wider communities
- Partners with Sales teams to understand the pipeline of leads to proactively develop social value proposals using community and customer research/insight
Skills on Resume:
- CR Strategy Definition & Integration (Hard Skills)
- CR & Non-Financial Reporting (Hard Skills)
- External Rating & Benchmarking Strategy (Hard Skills)
- Data Management (Hard Skills)
- Global CR Program Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Employee Support (Soft Skills)
- Compliance Panel Participation (Hard Skills)
- Social Value Leadership (Soft Skills)