ESG Coordinator

Overview:

The role of Environmental Manager is a new position within MVN. It will be instrumental in helping us to deliver on each of our ESG related goals and commitments across all of our operations, through monitoring and reporting performance and identifying trends and areas of opportunity and improvement. As our Environment Manager, you will be supporting the Head of Environment in the development and management of an environmental reporting framework for all ESG related data.

Requirements:

• Creating and maintaining the environmental data set and collection plan. Establishing a robust data management process to ensure timely and accurate reporting of all relevant ESG related environment and sustainability performance, in line with our objectives and targets
• Creating analytics so that we better understand our environmental impacts and can manage them more effectively, in addition to leading the annual third party data validation of the environmental data set.
• Producing periodic environmental and sustainability performance reports for Governance requirements, highlighting progress against our various objectives/targets and in response to stakeholder and investor requirements
• Managing MVN’s submissions to First Group for corporate reporting, future indices and benchmarking requirements, and new and future regulations
• Supporting Business Partners and respective Operating Companies, to ensure the effective management of local environmental impacts and aspects,
• Reporting of environmental and sustainability performance, whilst identifying, validating and implementing new opportunities for improved performance, efficiency and profitability.
• Assisting with the management of the Divisional Environmental Management System, including keeping environmental policies and procedures relevant and up to date
• Improving the customer experience through working with colleagues across the business to develop standard systems and procedures to help embed a culture of sharing best practice and continuous improvement.

Qualifications:

• Educated to relevant degree level (or equivalent professional experience).
• Membership of a relevant professional body (e.g. IEMA) and working towards Professional Membership (e.g. Chartered Environmentalist) is desirable.
• Experience of working in environmental management and sustainability, corporate reporting and/or business assurance, ESG investment analysis and/or data management, either in house or at an agency/consultancy.
• You'll be confident with data analysis methods, with a good eye for detail. Comfortable working with large quantities of data and associated IT software and capable of translating and reporting data into meaningful and actionable information.
• A good understanding of sustainability/ESG reporting, benchmarking and assurance standards.
• Keen understanding of how data is used to identify opportunities for improvement, to support business cases and drive change.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• Self-starter, with the ability to work independently managing projects within a fast-paced team and to tight deadlines
• Commercial awareness and a keen understanding of the impact of long term environmental risks and opportunities.
• Experience of the transport sector (or similar), its sustainability challenges and opportunities is desirable.

About Us
Moon Valley Nurseries is the largest grower of box trees and palms in North America, and is an industry leader and high growth company that offers competitive salaries with exceptional employee benefits including medical insurance, 401(k), holidays, and PTO to all eligible employees. We are an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company’s policy is not to unlawfully discriminate against any applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state, or local laws. The Company also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories.
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