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SalaryJob Purpose
Developing and executing product and business strategy in a world of rapid technological and social change requires a highly capable, highly knowledgeable, and highly engaged team. The Sustainability and Business Development Business Unit is tasked with navigating the path for new products, services, and businesses towards Honda's Triple Zero goals of 100% carbon neutral products and operations, 100% resource circularity, and 100% use of clean energy. The team will focus on building and sustaining Honda's core brand values and enhancing brand image and competitiveness in the marketplace by innovating, incubating, selecting, developing, applying, and operating new businesses, features, products, and services with responsibility for their profitability, competitiveness, and customer satisfaction for Honda in North America.
The Sustainability Policy Analyst should be passionate about contributing towards the success of the team through superb organization, communication, and execution. The Sustainability Policy Analyst will support the Sustainability Development Division with external policy engagement in the field of EV charging, vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-home, renewable energy, clean hydrogen generation. With the support of subject matter experts, the Technical Policy Analyst will engage with think-tanks, universities, government agencies, standards development organizations, and advocacy organizations with the goal of smoothing the path for success of Honda's environmentally oriented products and technologies.
The Sustainability Policy Analyst will create roadmaps for each policy under their observation to communicate the expected direction of the policy, and engage with technical and business leadership to synthesize the opportunities and impacts of the policy directions on Honda's sustainability business and technology plans.
Key Accountabilities
- Technical Policy Engagement - Governmental Entities
- Interact with governmental organizations who deal with technical policy surrounding Honda's environmentally oriented products, services, and businesses.
- Organizations include: California Energy Commission, California Public Utilities Commission, California Air Resources Board, and equivalent regulatory and policy entities throughout the US and Canada.
- Regulations and policies that may be affected by this engagement include Carbon Pricing, Low Carbon Fuel Standards, Net Energy Meetering regulations, Sub-metering regulations, Residential EV Charging, Public EV Charging, Distributed Energy Resource, Energy Storage, Solar PV, Heat Pumps
- Technical Policy Engagement - NGOs
- Interact with and administer the membership agreements of non-governmental organizations who deal with technical policy surrounding Honda's environmentally oriented products, services, and businesses.
- Organizations include: Vehicle-Grid Integration Council (VGIC), California Electric Transportation Coalition (CalETC), Hydrogen Fuel Cell Partnership, California Energy Storage Alliance, California Green Hydrogen Coalition, Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, World Resource Institute, etc.
- Policy Research
- Administer Honda's various research contracts with Universities and think-tanks and lead the development of research themes.
- UC Davis STEPS+ Program, UC Davis 3 Revolutions Program, Center for Automotive Research, National Renewable Energy Labs, Interstate Renewable Energy Council, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, etc.
- Communication
- Communicate prolifically throughout Honda to create understanding and awareness and concensus about the policies where Honda will need to engage, and to synthesize the risks and opportunities that result from these policies.
- Constituencies and collaborators include: Honda Motor, Honda R&D, AHM Product Regulatory Office, AHM Government Relations, AHM Public Relations, AHM Corporate Social Responsibility, AHM Corporate Communications, AHM Public Relations, AHM Sustainability and Business Development Business Unit, and all other relevant Business Units at AHM.
- Research and Analysis
- Conduct research and analysis under the direction of Division Leads or Project Teams to contribute towards achieving team goals. Attend events and report back the content that was presented, collecting the presentations and sending them to interested team members. Conduct research and analysis about topics of interest towards the Divison's strategy, and keep updated records of frequently requested topics (for example, "What is the direction of state fuels regulations such as Low Carbon Fuel Standard?", "Which is better: Investments in DC Fast Charging or Multi-Family L2 Charging?")
Qualifications, Experience, and Skills
- Bachelor's degree in business, business administration, economics, finance, political science, or equivalent required
- Graduate degree strongly preferred
- Masters degree with highly relevant project and thesis content
- Or 3+ or more years working in a technical policy analysis or policy development role in academia or government
- Or 5+ years working in a utility, resource aggregator, nGO, or equivalent
- Knowledge of Honda operations - planning, R&D, manufacturing, sales, quality, service, and customer support is preferred
- Critical thinking
- Analysis and synthesis
- Problem-solving
- Excellent visual, written, and verbal communication
- Proficient in MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word – (will be frequently used)
- Ability to maintain confidentiality
- Passion for environmental sustainability is a strong plus
Job Dimensions
Number of direct reports: 0
Number of indirect reports: 0
Financial dimensions (e.g. annual revenue, operating budget)
Decisions Expected
- Daily task management to complete the items that are of highest priority first.
- Policy engagement strategy for each policy under consideration
- Which policy forums in which to engage to achieve the desired business outcomes
Working Conditions
- 40% desk work using laptop and phone, including conference calls, communicating, reading and responding to emails, reading contracts, etc
- 35% meetings
- 25% preparing for and reporting to management
- 67% Remote / 33% Office
Honda is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.
