Associate Manager, Corporate Responsibility at Best Buy in Richfield, Minnesota

Job Description:

The Associate Manager of Corporate Responsibility is responsible for supporting Best Buy’s efforts in the development, implementation, and governance of Best Buy’s corporate responsibility strategy, as well as supporting external reporting and stakeholder engagement efforts. This role is responsible for helping to ensure the seamless execution and governance of corporate responsibility strategy and reporting across the enterprise. This role will also help with team operational duties, including building team processes for efficiency, planning, and coordination.

This role requires a curious and strategic-minded individual who is highly organized to create processes, manage governance and policy, collect and understand metrics and apply to future planning, and maintain an understanding of corporate responsibility trends and regulatory developments in the industry.

This role is hybrid, which means you will work some days on site at the Best Buy Richfield, MN Corporate Campus and some days virtually from home or other non-Best Buy location. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process

What you'll do

1. Reporting Management

• Manage status of data inputs and outputs for all corporate responsibility-related data for all internal stakeholders across all external-facing reports


• Maintain internal stakeholder management for all CR Reporting and build quarterly updates for Best Buy Board of Directors

2. Corporate Responsibility Strategy Coordination

• Supports development of a holistic enterprise strategy tailored to Best Buy’s unique business model and positioning to make a meaningful impact


• Helps coordinate the cross-functional development of multi-year roadmaps to deliver on existing and new commitments and aspirations


• Help develop and execute materiality assessment to identify and prioritize responsible business issues that are material to the organization

3. Program Management and Governance

• Maintain Teams channels, create SOPs for processes, ensuring files are archived correctly and stakeholders can access information for reporting purposes


• Builds annual cadence to review external facing policies and coordinate internal updates as needed

Minimum qualifications

• 2 years of experience in Corporate Responsibility, Sustainability, or ESG-related corporate efforts, preferably in the retail or technology sectors or related consulting


• 4 years of developing and implementing strategic planning through program and project management


• Determined self-starter with an entrepreneurial and curious mindset geared toward taking action and find solutions, educating and inspiring other partners


• Subject matter expertise and familiarity of responsible business topics – environmental sustainability, human rights, responsible sourcing, community impact, diversity and inclusion, risk management, etc.


• Strong ability to stay focused in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple assignments from conception to completion on deadline.


• Experience understanding end user needs, building roadmaps and driving them to implementation.


• Ability to interface with multiple levels of the organization and communicate effectively both verbal and written, including PowerPoint.

What’s in it for you

We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. We offer generous benefits that address your total well-being and provide support as you need it, especially key moments in your life.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive pay


• Generous employee discount


• Physical and mental well-being support

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

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