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Position Overview:

HOW YOU’LL HELP US KEEP CLIMBING (OVERVIEW & KEY RESPONSIBILITIES)

Note to Applicants: The Global Sustainability Team has multiple job postings up currently. If you are interested in more than one role, please don’t hesitate to apply to any role you are interested in. We’re excited to review your application.

Delta’s Global Sustainability team is responsible for acting on Delta’s environmental sustainability agenda and serves as the face of environmental stewardship for the company. The group has been charged with creating and executing on a long-term strategic plan for sustainability and managing cross-divisional programs to expand carbon reduction efforts, invest in projects to remove carbon emissions from the atmosphere, and engage with internal and external stakeholders to maximize our global impact. The group is high-visibility and high-impact, interfacing across leadership levels to integrate sustainability practices into all of Delta’s corporate programs.

As part of this, the team owns five critical functions that are fundamental to driving Delta’s long-term success:

• Long-term sustainability strategy and investment planning
• Interfacing with business units on development / delivery of sustainability programs aligned to long-term strategy (e.g. carbon reduction, removal of carbon emissions, waste management, etc.)
• Building / maintaining broad research base on key market trends (not limited to airline / travel space; inclusive of disruptions or developments in the environmental sustainability space)
• Reporting to key stakeholders (external and internal) on financials, investment portfolio, and outcomes of initiatives
• Managing the investments into Delta’s carbon sequestering portfolio

Primary Responsibilities of this role:
This role’s primary responsibility will be developing an overarching vision and roadmap for a sustainable travel experience in collaboration with Delta’s operations, customer experience, product, and technical teams. This includes:

• Working collaboratively with senior management and divisional leadership to develop goals and manage initiatives.
• Collaborating with subject-matter-experts responsible for leading projects within their respective divisions (e.g., FlightOps, OCC, In-Flight Service, ACS, etc.).
• Providing project management support to the subject-matter-experts on high priority initiatives—this includes developing business cases, research, drafting executive presentations. This detailed information gathering, analysis and research will help influence decisions in the best interest of Delta’s sustainability goals.
• Building needed tools to support the efforts. Responsible for first establishing new processes for to support Sustainability efforts and in the long term working to continuously improve those processes. For example, business case models and templates, project initiation documents, measurement and tracking infrastructure.
• Having and maintaining subject matter expertise to understand landscape of near-term and long-term innovations that will support Delta’s sustainability journey.
• Developing and maintaining a pipeline of opportunities to pursue and a roadmap of initiatives that is inclusive of the entire customer travel experience.
• Seeing through the execution of chosen initiatives within Delta’s operation.

Beyond managing these efforts, the team member would support other regular or special initiatives within the Global Sustainability team, time-permitting. These topics could require general knowledge of finance, accounting, engineering, environmental science, and / or marketing.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS)

• Minimum of 3 years’ professional experience managing projects involving analytics, customer experience, and / or business disciplines
• Experience in developing business cases and high-level program implementation plans including milestones and progress measurement
• Demonstrates the ability to work independently and with limited guidance.
• Demonstrates strong communication and interpersonal skills, allowing the candidate to work effectively with colleagues across all levels and divisions of Delta.
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
• Where permitted by applicable law, must have received or be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine by date of hire to be considered for U.S.-based job, if not currently employed by Delta Air Lines, Inc.

WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS)

• BA/BS/BSc Degree in a field related to business analysis (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, Management Information Systems), management (Accounting, Finance, Economics, Public Policy), or environmental sciences.