Corporate Sustainability Process Manager

Corporate sustainability process manager work is owning the operational machinery that makes a sustainability program run — data collection workflows, reporting cadences, supplier survey processes, audit preparation, and the coordination between all the people and systems that need to produce accurate sustainability data on a schedule. It's less about strategy and more about execution: making sure that when the annual disclosure deadline arrives, the numbers are credible, the documentation is complete, and nothing falls through the cracks.

The data collection challenge is where most of the daily work lives. Greenhouse gas data lives in utility bills, travel records, fuel purchase systems, fleet management platforms, manufacturing energy meters, and supplier surveys — none of which are natively formatted for GHG reporting. Building the workflows to collect that data systematically, validate it for reasonableness, resolve discrepancies, and load it into the reporting system is process engineering work that requires both technical fluency and stakeholder coordination with the business units that own those systems.

Audit preparation is a recurring requirement. Third-party verifiers — whether for GHG inventory, CDP, or emerging mandatory climate disclosures — require documented evidence for every number you report. Building the audit trail (source data, calculation methodology, assumptions, reviews) as you go rather than reconstructing it under deadline is the operational discipline that makes verification go smoothly versus become a crisis.