Ralph Lauren Corporation is looking to shape and execute its sustainability strategy and deliver on its goals by improving processes, managing projects, and tracking progress.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in project management, with a proven track record of effectively coordinating and prioritizing multiple overlapping workstreams to drive impact.
- Structured thinker capable of navigating between high-level strategy and tactical project execution, balancing big-picture vision with near-term priorities.
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy; excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills to assess gaps and identify necessary actions to achieve strategic goals.
- Strong history of collaborating with multiple stakeholders, gathering diverse perspectives, and developing recommended approaches.
- Superior interpersonal skills to build and maintain strong relationships and credibility with stakeholders while influencing to build consensus.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts clearly and concisely, and adept at tailoring messages to diverse audiences.
- Passion for sustainability, innovation, creativity, and continuous learning, with a strong desire to make a meaningful impact.
Responsibilities
- Lead change management by overseeing and prioritizing improvements to sustainability team processes and systems, ensuring the right operating model is in place, and driving continuous improvement.
- Lead sustainability strategy execution, managing processes and tools for tracking progress toward goals, facilitating partnerships among key stakeholders, and ensuring accountability for delivering on commitments.
- Strategically coordinate the preparation of report-ready data for the Sustainability team and share it with the reporting team.
- Strategically coordinate the closure of voluntary and regulated reporting gaps for all disclosures owned by the Sustainability team.
- Regularly conduct and maintain benchmark assessments of the company’s sustainability performance, goals, and strategy relative to peers in our industry and leading brands in other industries.
- Coordinate sustainability strategy progress updates for key leadership groups to ensure awareness, alignment, and effective implementation of strategic initiatives.
- Coordinate inbound and outbound information for the Sustainability team to support the management of key relationships, including external investors, NGOs, and other internal cross-functional and external stakeholders.
Other
- Strong preference for experience in corporate sustainability setting.
- A partnership-driven mindset is essential for building and maintaining relationships, emphasizing collaboration, communication, and project management.
- You are a passionate, quick-learning, organized, and purpose-driven professional who excels at finding creative solutions to emerging challenges.
- Your ability to navigate the organization and effectively manage stakeholder expectations sets you apart.
