Daily Sustainability Job Post

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. As the global leader in the food service industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us.
From drive thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. Joining McDonald’s means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements – check them out here!

We are enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model, in which employees spend part of their week connecting with co-workers in our state-of-the-art headquarters. Located in the booming West Loop of downtown Chicago, it’s set up to be a global hub that cultivates collaboration:

• Take a class at Hamburger University
• Sample future items in our Test Kitchen
• Utilize the latest technology to connect with your team around the globe

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. We are interested in people who enhance our company culture: Does this role interest you? We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every single requirement!

McDonald’s Global Impact team is aligned around a mission to make McDonald’s one of the most respected, trusted, and admired brands in the world. We will do this through actions to drive responsible business growth, investments to foster community, values-based advocacy, and compelling communications that matter to our customers, our System and our global partners. Read more about our Purpose & Impact here.

Job Description:The Manager for Nature & Water Strategy on Global Impact’s Sustainability & ESG team will lead the development and deployment of McDonald’s global sustainability strategy for water (across supply chain and restaurants), forests, and biodiversity in partnership with key functions such as supply chain, restaurant development, markets, and other corporate functions. This role will strategically engage internal and external partners and handle project management, resource development, communications, and reporting.

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage and develop McDonald’s sustainability strategy for forests, water, biodiversity, and other related impact areas, in alignment with McDonald’s teams across the business and world, along with external partners.
  • Drive progress against our 2030 public commitment to eliminate deforestation from our global supply chains, ensuring our actions are aligned to stakeholder expectations, emerging regulations and our strategy on other areas including climate and human rights.
  • Formalize our global strategies and innovation opportunities on biodiversity and water (supply chain and restaurants), building on insights and actions from existing work, global teams, market efforts, suppliers, and NGO partners.
• Lead our representation with external stakeholders, including the Consumer Goods Forum Forest Positive Coalition and Taskforce for Nature-related Financial Disclosure.
• Strengthen our data and insights to enable our internal strategy execution, and to ensure robust metrics for external ESG reporting to demonstrate progress on targets in a way which is aligned to global guidance and stakeholder expectations.
• Manage all aspects of areas of responsibility including budget, working group representation, best practice development, reporting, and engagement with McDonald’s markets.
• Identify new partnerships, opportunities, and technologies for scaling change in a global landscape, including from McDonald’s system and external sources.
• As the McDonald’s subject matter expert, build relationships cross-functionally with teams including supply chain, customer experience, restaurant development, corporate and government relations, to bring this work to life for our customers.
• Collaborate with food and planet directors to advance forward looking strategic projects and innovation beyond forests and water, related to circularity, climate, nutrition, resiliency, environmental justice, etc.

Qualifications:

• Deep understanding of environmental sustainability issues relating to food and planet, especially on forests and water topics.
• Practical experience of working on solutions to these matters across multiple countries within a large corporate, NGO or similar organisation.
• Enterprise thinking, values-driven and solutions focused, with the ability to proactively identify problems and partner with the right teams internally and externally to find appropriate solutions.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, professionalism, flexibility and personability, with a desire to work in a fast-paced environmental with multiple cross-functional teams based across the world.
• Strong project management, influencing and engagement skills. Collaborative attitude and ability to work independently, sensitively leading progress across global, virtual, and cross-functional teams.
• Degree in sustainability, environmental management, ecology, agriculture, or a related discipline preferred.

Additional Information:McDonald’s is committed to providing qualified individuals with disabilities reasonable accommodations to perform the essential functions of their jobs. Additionally, if you (or another applicant of whom you are aware) require assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise seek assistance in the application process, please contact recruiting.supportteam@us.mcd.com

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