Senior Sustainability Analyst, Climate and Nature Data Analytics: Become the Newest Member of the VF Family
This role provides data collection, analytics, and environmental impact expertise to support VF Corporation's Global Sustainability strategy, quantify and guide progress toward goals and targets, and provide data management and organization to prepare for upcoming regulation and external disclosures. In close collaboration with the Senior Manager of Global Sustianability Programs, other VF teams throughout the enterprise, and the sustainability leads at each VF brand, this role exercises proficiency on VF's product based environmental impacts. This includes global GHG emissions associated with raw material sourcing, with an emphasis on agriculture practices or recycled materials, material processing and finishing, product manufacturing, and product end-of-life. This role will aggregate global sustainability data across key brands and the enterprise to provide data analytics that measure and communicate environmental impact reductions across climate, nature, and resource management.
How You Will Make a Difference:
The Senior Sustainability Analyst will contribute to key activities in measuring our environmental impacts as part of the Global Sustainability Team. This role will collect, aggregate and analyze data to measure the environmental impacts and progress toward goals across our materials and products, and help the team prepare for emerging ESG regulatory compliance. This includes projects, such as:
Support and validate data collection from teams across VF focused on material sourcing and factory operations
Compile and analyze data to map brand level and enterprise scope 3 carbon impacts and develop projections for brand sustainability, materials, and innovation teams to reduce the impact in line with our science based targets.
Work with digital product platform team and brand level product management to further develop internal product line management systems, finding areas to increase data support for scope 3 measurements and reporting
Aggregate and analyze data to support disclosure toward voluntary sustainability targets and prepare for mandatory ESG regulatory disclosures and reporting.
Prepare data visualization for internal and external meetings, including Executive Leadership Team and Board of Directors.
Provide data management, file management, and organizational support to centralize data in preparation for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory assurance, and mandatory ESG regulatory disclosures
Coordinate with ESG Reporting, SEC Reporting and other VF teams to ensure sustainability data is timely, accurate and complete for our annual disclosures and surveys including our annual Enviromental and Social Responsibility Report, Science Based Targets, and emerging European legislation and reporting requirements.
Provide emissions consulting, data collection and measurements for innovative materials and evolving sustainability strategies/new regulation around regenerative agriculture carbon sequestion and biodiversity, circular product emission factor equivalents, nature science based targets, and new material alternatives.
Work with brand teams on new material LCA assessments.
Skills for Success:
Years of Related Professional Experience: 5+ years
Educational/ Position Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in sustainability, CSR, economics, environmental studies, management information systems, engineering, finance, or similar field.
Analytical experience and understanding of data collection and organization.
Advanced Excel experience with the ability to manipulate data using formulas, pivot tables, macros, and modeling.
Greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and product/material LCA experience
Data visualization and presentation experience preferred.
Exposure to sustainability ratings and measurement systems, but not limited to, GHG Protocol, Science Based Targets initiative, Net Zero, TCFD, CDP and CSRD.
Environmental sustainability expertise on material impacts, regenerative agriculture, and circularity preffered.
Product Creation, development, or innovation experience preferred.
Familiarity with industry tools such as the Higg Index, preferred.
Systems thinker with an ability to understand underlying connections and correlations.
Self-motivation and self-starter skills, proactive, and able to work independently with limited supervision.
Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to effectively work cross-functionally across the organization, and with external consultants.
Ability to successfully support and prioritize multiple projects and teams at one time.
Exceptional attention to detail and organizational skills are a must.
Individual Strengths:
Strong interpersonal skills and personable, professional attitude
Detail oriented, results oriented, and tenacious
Passionate about making a positive, meaningful impact
Insatiable curiousity about sustainability and achieving VF's goals