Daily Sustainability Job Post

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Position Overview:

Discovery is at the heart of everything we do. Wherever you find us around the world, if you can think of a product, you can probably find it in our stores, which include TJ Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods, Sierra, Winners, Homesense, and TK Maxx. With variety comes plenty of happy surprises – our environment is ever-changing, and that’s just how we like it. Every day is an opportunity to discover something new about our business, our partnerships and even something exciting about yourself. Ready to Discover Different?

Posting Notes: Framingham || MA

TJX has long been committed to pursuing initiatives that are environmentally responsible and smart for our business. As a large, complex international business, we work to continually make progress on our environmental sustainability efforts and help mitigate our impact on the environment. We focus our efforts in four areas: climate and energy, responsible waste management, chemicals management, and sustainable products. We are making great progress in all these areas and to further accelerate our initiatives have a newly created role for a Manager of Sustainability!

The Manager of Sustainability will lead, evolve and manage TJX’s Sustainability program with a focus on execution of internal operations relating to energy and waste initiatives, data and metrics and internal Associate engagement.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with key internal stakeholders (Energy Management, Facilities, Store Operations, Procurement, Distribution Services, etc) to drive the business case creation and recommended implementation approach for new or expanded sustainable operations initiatives, including the development of processes, tools and tracking mechanisms for topics that include: Sourcing, energy efficiency, renewables, re-use and recycling, circular economy and packaging
• Keeps a pulse on industry trends, constantly seeking out best practices and benchmark against peers and key direct and indirect suppliers (for example: benchmark TJX Logistics carrier goals and emissions reduction strategies)
• Researches and assesses the landscape of forthcoming environmental regulations and advise the business on an approach to operationalize these regulations
• Represents TJX in industry association meetings
• Responsible for crafting and assessing sustainability initiatives, metrics, processes and procedures and analyzing potential business impacts (risks or opportunities) and making key recommendations to Senior Management as appropriate.

Requirements:

• Bachelors’ Degree in relevant focus areas such as Environmental Studies, Environmental Policy, Sustainable Business or equivalent professional experience; MBA or advanced degree a plus
• 8+ years corporate sustainability experience or sustainability consulting experience
• Developed experience working with sustainability reporting standards, frameworks and certifications including CDP, SASB, TCFD and UNSDGs a plus
• GHG accounting experience preferred
• Excellent communications and presentation skills, both written and verbal, ability to communicate complex business information in a clear and compelling way
• Recognizable executive presence with experience and comfort presenting information to executive leaders
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and build effective working relationships with internal partners in a constantly evolving environment
• Comfortable collaborating and partnering across business functions
• Proficient with MS 365 Suite including Excel skills with ability to analyze and synthesize data into relevant insights, creating dashboards and reporting to tell the story

Come Discover Different at TJX. From opportunity and teamwork to growth, we think you’ll find that it’s so much more than a job. When you’re a part of our global TJX family, you have the full support of a diverse, close-knit group of people dedicated to finding great deals and fantastic style. Best of all? They have a lot of fun doing it.

We care about our culture, but we also prioritize the tangible stuff (Competitive salaries: check. Solid benefits: check. Plenty of room for advancement: of course). It’s our way of empowering you to make your career here.

We consider all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status. We also provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.