<p>Company</p> <p>Cox Enterprises</p> <p>Job Family Group</p> <p>Environmental, Social & Governance</p> <p>Job Profile</p> <p>Environmental Sustainability Sr Manager</p> <p>Management Level</p> <p>Sr Manager - Non People Leader</p> <p>Flexible Work Option</p> <p>Can work remotely but need to live in the specified city, state, or region</p> <p>Travel %</p> <p>Yes, 25% of the time</p> <p>Work Shift</p> <p>Day</p> <p>Compensation</p> <p>Compensation includes a base salary of $131,600.00 - $219,400.00. 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.</p> <p>Job Description</p> <p>The Senior Manager, Growth Ops Business Partnerships will be responsible for supporting business-driven strategy development and implementation around sustainability initiatives that support biodiversity, waste, water and carbon reduction goal achievement across Cox Growth Ops business operations and facilities. As well as scrutinize and speak to requirements from both an operational and technical sustainability perspective and execute end-to-end change management. The Sr. Manager, Growth Ops Business Partnerships will influence and consult on business decisions to support the achievement of Cox Conserves targets and act as a bridge between technical experts at both Cox Growth Ops and CEI.</p> <p>Simplifies communication of complex concepts and solutions to gain operational and financial support for initiatives that contribute to a better future for the next generation. Leverage key environmental data points to identify, plan, and execute operational optimization of waste, water, and energy/fuel use with expertise and input from waste, water, and carbon engineering, environmental compliance & sustainability analytics. This individual engages and collaborates with stakeholders, including peers, executive and operational leaders, and cross-functional teams across the enterprise to drive business efficiency while reducing environmental impacts from operations. Identifies risks and issues throughout project and program workstreams, raising and escalating risks in a timely fashion to overcome roadblocks and work cooperatively toward a successful outcome. Meets regularly with stakeholders to share knowledge and surface gaps and potential roadblocks. Works diligently to resolve performance disparity across teams, regions, and departments, escalating as needed to ensure success.</p> <p>Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Understand business operations and drivers to identify the needs and opportunities of Cox Conserves and Cox Growth Ops.</p> </li><li> <p>Serve as the connective tissue between Growth Ops and Cox Conserves for priorities, projects, and strategic initiatives.</p> </li><li> <p>Consult and advise senior divisional and operational leaders to educate them on key impact drivers and business benefits to reducing and mitigating environmental impacts.</p> </li><li> <p>Influence divisional leaders at all levels to prioritize achievement of Cox Conserves targets, keeping them fully equipped on the evolving business benefits to doing so, including brand, employment brand, government relations, efficiency, cost, and revenue benefits.</p> </li><li> <p>Support, communicate, and manage relationships with stakeholders across Cox Growth Ops facilities.</p> </li><li> <p>Meet with divisional and operational leaders to inform them of key impact drivers and business benefits to reducing and mitigating environmental impacts, with the support of the Cox Conserves leader.</p> </li><li> <p>Engage with relevant Cox Growth Ops teams to identify and address operational opportunities to reduce the environmental impacts of business activity.</p> </li><li> <p>Be informed of environmental and financial reporting to deeply understand the drivers and identify operational changes that can drive positive environmental and business outcomes.</p> </li><li> <p>Organize Cox Conserves PMO data into a summary of project and program health and progress to keep stakeholders aligned on scope, schedule, and budget.</p> </li><li> <p>Supporting sustainability projects and programs led by other team members as the business-unit operations subject matter expert.</p> </li><li> <p>Delivers presentations to internal customers and other program stakeholders</p> </li></ul> <p>Skills:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Soft Skills:</p> </li><li> <p>Business acumen, relationship building, collaboration, teamwork, communication, ability to upskill in new areas quickly, leadership, organization, conflict resolution.</p> </li><li> <p>Technical Skills:</p> </li><li> <p>Data analysis, root cause analysis, understanding of environmental issues and associated Cox Conserves targets, as well as business/operations issues and associated targets.</p> </li><li> <p>Project/Program Management Skills:</p> </li><li> <p>Time/task management, problem solving, critical thinking, adaptability, conflict resolution, project planning, project scoping, facilitating meetings, mapping milestones, timelines, and key outcomes, task management, Smartsheets, workload and cost management.</p> </li></ul> <p>Job Qualifications - Experience/Education/Training:</p> <p>Required:</p> <ul> <li> <p>A bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience developing program management plans,</p> </li><li> <p>OR an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience producing and delivering relevant progress reports and readouts in complex, matrixed organizations.</p> </li><li> <p>The ability to create and manage high-trust relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.</p> </li><li> <p>Expertise in negotiating and advocating on behalf of key stakeholders and managing conflict.</p> </li><li> <p>Demonstrated experience facilitating meetings and site visits with stakeholders.</p> </li><li> <p>Strong verbal, written, and visual communication skills.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience identifying, measuring, communicating, and managing key program performance indicators.</p> </li><li> <p>The ability to analyze large datasets, using insights to generate actionable recommendations and forecast potential impact scenarios.</p> </li><li> <p>Strong business acumen and the ability to perform and present financial analyses and business cases to a variety of audiences, including executive leaders.</p> </li><li> <p>The ability to influence and impact while managing multiple complex priorities.</p> </li><li> <p>Commitment to demonstrating a working knowledge of key business functions, including finance, operations, marketing, and revenue growth strategy, across the Cox Growth Ops family of brands.</p> </li></ul> <p>Preferred:</p> <ul> <li> <p>Direct experience with the Cox divisional environmental team's, preferably in an organizational or functional leadership role.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience solving organizational challenges in environmentally sustainable operations.</p> </li><li> <p>A strong understanding of change management and human-centered design principles, practices and tools.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience communicating sustainability issues across varying audiences and expertise levels.</p> </li><li> <p>Experiencing successfully negotiating vendor relationships.</p> </li><li> <p>Experience or formal training in Greenhouse Gas (GhG) Protocol and/or other common sustainability reporting frameworks (GRI, SASB, TCFD, SBTi).</p> </li></ul> <p>Other Essential Job Requirements and Working Conditions:</p> <ul> <li>Travel: Up to 25% travel may be required </li></ul> <p>Benefits</p> <p>The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.</p> <p>About Us</p> <p>As our primary divisions Cox Automotive and Cox Communications drive new waves of innovation, Cox Enterprises is entering spaces like cleantech, healthcare, esports and more. We're a family business guided by a legacy of bold innovation that's driven by those who want to make their mark. Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO). For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page. Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer - All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual's age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.</p> <p>Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.</p>