Manager, Environmental Sustainability
About this position
As Manager, Environmental Sustainability, you will be responsible for leading the day-to-day activities to drive progress towards YETI’s environmental sustainability commitments across our supply chain.
Responsibilities
• Advance YETI’s Supplier Environmental Program
• Develop and enhance data collection mechanisms, tracking and reporting across sustainability metrics and KPIS such as energy/electricity, waste, water, and carbon intensity at factories
• Collaborate closely with factory partners to define and implement impactful environmental reduction targets, roadmaps, and initiatives including the adoption of renewable energy
• Own the upstream piece of our scope 3 category 1 greenhouse gas accounting process – collecting, verifying, and formatting data, implementing tools/templates to minimize manual work, and managing substantiation in support of 3rd party verification.
• Leverage YETI’s existing carbon accounting platform and other tools to track and quantify environmental reduction initiatives both at factory/DC level and rolled-up to YETI’s corporate footprint, produce regular report-outs that can be incorporated into business reviews and leadership updates.
• Support the cross-functional team to build YETI’s preferred material database by identifying, collecting, and maintaining traceability documents and certifications relevant to our sustainability objectives.
• Support global sustainability team members with project implementation on the ground in Asia.
• Answer program disclosure and reporting requests from retail partners, customers, and stakeholders, as required.
• Maintain pulse on industry and regional best practices, trends, emerging issues, regulation, etc.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50%
Requirements
• 4-6 years of experience leading sustainability initiatives with manufacturing partners, preferably at a global Consumer Products company.
• Familiarity with industry standard environmental frameworks, tools, and certifications such as Greenhouse Gas Reporting Protocol, Product Environmental Footprints (PEFs) or Life Cycle Assessment (LCS), Worldly/HIGG, GRS, bluesign, ISCC Plus, FSC.
• Familiarity with energy audits, pathways to renewable energy schemes (on-site, PPA, VPPA, RECs, green tariffs, etc.) and in-country incentives.
• Strong attention to detail, comfort with data analytics and presentation tools such as Excel, Smartsheets, Google Sheets, Tableau, and Powerpoint.
• Ability to communicate complex topics in a clear