Sustainability Reports Director

Day to day, you're orchestrating the data collection, analysis, assurance preparation, and narrative writing that produces the organization's sustainability disclosures — CDP, GRI, SASB, TCFD, CSRD, and integrated annual reports. Much of the work is coordination: data requests to business units, quality checking incoming data, managing external assurance providers, and aligning with legal and investor relations on disclosure decisions.

The annual cycle is intense. CDP submissions, ESG report publication, and proxy season create compressed windows with high visibility and low tolerance for error. Between cycles, you're building the data infrastructure, training business units on data collection processes, and tracking regulatory changes that will affect next year's disclosures.

The hard part is data politics. Business units own the operational data that goes into sustainability reports, but they don't always have the same incentive to collect it carefully or disclose it fully. Managing the tension between what's operationally measurable and what investors expect to see — while maintaining assurance quality — is the core professional challenge.