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Position Overview:

Microsoft has become a corporate leader in environmental sustainability by constantly striving to minimize the environmental footprint of its business operations while maximizing the positive environmental impacts of its products, policies, partnerships and supply chain. As the environmental challenges facing the world grow, so too has Microsoft’s commitment to ensuring that the company’s activities are in-line with the best available science and the expectations of leading stakeholder communities.

The magnitude and speed of the world’s environmental changes have made it increasingly clear that Microsoft must make sustainability a core part of everything it does. In January 2020, the company announced its commitment to be carbon negative by 2030 and followed that announcement with goals for ecosystems, waste, and water. ​

Microsoft Procurement’s core focus is carbon. We are partnering across our supply chain teams to reduce scope 3 emissions (from our supply chain) by 55% by 2030. As this is a new ambition for the company, our role includes building out new programmatic processes and tools to support both suppliers and the business collectively to achieve this goal. ​

The Responsible Procurement Team within Procurement Compliance is looking for a Senior Sustainability Compliance Manager to join our team.

Candidates must have a proven track record in program management, process thinking, driving for results, operational excellence, flexibility, collaboration, strategic thinking, stakeholder management, as well as a passion for sustainability.

Responsibilities
Responsibilities may include (but are not limited to):

Supplier Sustainability engagement:

• Develop and implement a supplier sustainability engagement model.
• Evaluate and segment suppliers by their carbon maturity.
• Evaluate existing training and readiness materials for reporting carbon emissions and develop new materials in collaboration with internal and external partners to address knowledge gaps.
• Mentor key suppliers on their sustainability journey.
• Lead supplier engagement and readiness calls.
• Design a strategy to capture supplier knowledge to contribute to broader sustainability goals.
• Identification of strategic project or emission reduction co-investment opportunities with our top suppliers.
• Inspire our suppliers around the actions we are taking to reduce our carbon footprint and to contribute to our overall sustainability goals.
• Explore, select, and implement supplier recognition programs in coordination with broader Procurement programs.

Building Strategic Partnerships

• Establish relationships across the company to build a strong sustainability network.
• Actively seek and create opportunities for synergies across our supply chain and corporate sustainability teams to drive long-term solutions and shared goals.
• Develop shared strategies and priority areas for accelerating our carbon reduction goals, while clearly communicating expectations for carbon reduction within our indirect supply base.
• Identify opportunities to create strong visibility, proof points and storytelling of Microsoft’s vision for Sustainability to drive innovation and engagement.
• Partner across Procurement to gain scale through peer teams

Program roadmap design:

• Contribute to designing Microsoft’s long-term, holistic sourcing plan to meet corporate sustainability commitments, in support of Microsoft operational and strategic goals.
• Seek opportunities for improvement within existing processes and propose changes or adjustments to plans.
• Applies known industry methodologies for carbon reporting and works to minimize supplier submission errors.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Business, Environmental Science or Communications preferred
• 5 years supply chain, operations, supplier management or sustainability experience
• 5 years program management experience of running large programs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and an ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences at all levels of the organization
• Highly driven passionate person, with a demonstrated track record of exceeding goals
• Ability to persuade, lead and motivate others through indirect influence
• Knowledgeable about sustainability and eager to learn more
• A high level of enthusiasm, creativity, self-motivation, and resourcefulness
• Growth mindset with problem solving skills
• Plays well with others and thrives in cross-team environments