Environmental Sustainability Manager – Energy & Emissions

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Anaheim, California, United States

Environmental Sustainability Manager will lead the design and execution of strategies to deliver against The Walt Disney Company (TWDC) Environmental Sustainability Goals for the Disneyland Resort (DLR) site and adjacent properties. The manager’s primary focus is to deliver meaningful progress against our emissions goals and targets, including leading our energy efficiency, renewables, and fuels programs. The manager is also responsible for developing a team of subject matter experts across key workstreams. They will actively partner across all business functions at DLR and other Environmental Sustainability teams across the company to develop new and optimize existing plans, influence decision making, and drive the strategic implementation of initiatives.

Our ideal candidate will be self-motivated and driven to hold themselves and their team to the highest level of performance. This candidate will have proven abilities and experience driving environmentally beneficial outcomes in a cross-functional environment. Additionally, a true passion for actively developing our Cast & Business to higher levels of growth are critical. Broad technical and industry knowledge & influence will be key to this candidate's success in leading and driving our team.

You Will/Primary Responsibilities

• Provide deep industry expertise and initiative implementation
• Serve as the DLR Environmental Sustainability team subject matter expert on energy, renewables, fuels, and the built environment.
• Optimize and build multi-year resort Environmental Sustainability plans to enable step function progress towards deep DLR decarbonization.
• Lead the design and implementation of priority initiatives, through active program development and project management responsibilities.
• Drive innovation for priority initiatives, technical vetting and implementing emerging technologies and solutions to improve DLR's sustainability performance and ensure the resort remains at the forefront of climate mitigation and adaptation practices.
• Support data collection requirements and analytics for evaluating and comparing initiatives, considering environmental and financial implications, life cycle assessment, and other relevant factors.

Relationship building and collaboration

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams across DLR and other enterprise environmental teams to influence decision making, including building task-oriented working groups.
• Prepare and present updates to leaders of all levels on GHG emissions goals progress.
• Build relationships with leaders across the DLR to prioritize environmental action in all of their work.

Performance and accountability

• Manage GHG emission reduction budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources and achieving desired outcomes.
• Support establishing and recalibrating priorities as emerging opportunities evolve.
• Develop interim targets and ensure projects are achieving key performance indicators established by the team lead and the organization. Ensure outcomes are captured by DLR Sustainability Analyst for corporate reporting.
• Lead their team to higher levels of performance.
• Lead projects as assigned.

You Have/Required Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Environmental Sustainability
• Proven project management skills in engineering projects with demonstrated experience to self-manage complex delivery in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
• Deep knowledge of Environmental Sustainability industry trends and solutions – including expertise in technical decarbonization strategies, energy and fuels.
• Experience leading change to deliver positive and meaningful environmentally beneficial outcomes while balancing business needs
• Demonstrated influence & relationship skills across diverse areas
• Ability to synthesize information and present key stakeholders
• Ability to source and understand engineering solutions that can deliver improvement to existing system conditions
• Proven ability & true passion for actively teaching & developing Cast & leaders
• Expertise and comfort with interpreting quantitative data required to drive decision-making
• Proficiency with Microsoft Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint

Required Education

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field

Preferred Education

• Advanced degree in relevant field

Working Conditions

The Environmental Sustainability Manager role is based at the Disneyland Resort and is expected to work normal business hours, with flexibility required as we partner with all areas of the Resort, many of which operate 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, weekends, and holidays.

Benefits and Perks:

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

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The hiring range for this position in California is $90,500.00 - $124,400.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors. A bonus and/or long-term incentive units may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to the full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the level and position offered.