Manager, DIS Sustainability

The principal mission of this role is to establish and run an audit-ready, high-performing sustainability reporting service within the Data & Insights organization. The Manager leads analysts, manages the backlog, and acts as the vital bridge between corporate sustainability leaders and technical data-platform teams. Day-to-day responsibilities center around translating intricate ESG queries and regulatory expectations into accurate calculation models, automated dashboards, and strong documentation. The role requires rigorous oversight of data quality, lineage, and controls, ensuring that reports reliably meet internal operational needs and external verification standards without inheriting technical data engineering directly. Longer-term, the focus is on scaling service maturity. The Manager must prioritize backlog items against business risk and capacity, orchestrate source-system dependencies, continuously upskill analysts, and systematically reduce reporting friction across a vast multinational enterprise footprint.

This position offers a strong vantage point to gain deep expertise in enterprise data governance applied to ESG. You will work closely with complex enterprise architecture, mastering data lineage, automated controls, and the integration of diverse operational data sources into unified reporting engines. Given tightening European disclosure environments, this position provides hands-on exposure to building audit-ready reporting systems aligned with standards such as the CSRD and GHG Protocol. Leading these initiatives within a massive multinational establishes invaluable fluency in bridging corporate finance, IT, and environmental governance.

The ideal candidate brings proven experience in managing reporting, analytics, or enterprise business intelligence teams in complex corporate environments. A strong background in data governance, quality assurance, and audit readiness is essential, coupled with enough technical proficiency to validate models and challenge technical deliverables. While direct experience with greenhouse gas accounting or sustainability frameworks is advantageous, the decisive factor is the ability to master new functional domains quickly. Strong people leadership, agile prioritization skills, and exceptional stakeholder management to align technical developers with non-technical business leaders are required.

To stand out, center your application on your track record of delivering reliable, auditable data products rather than just descriptive dashboard design. Highlight specific instances where you established controls, cleaned data pipelines, or prepared reporting mechanisms for external audit scrutiny. Demonstrate your ability to operate as a translator between technical teams and executive business partners. Frame your leadership experience around pragmatic service delivery: managing backlogs, resolving dependencies, and coaching analytical talent in fast-paced corporate environments.

The core sustainability focus of this role lies in ensuring the transparency, accuracy, and operational tracking of the company's climate and non-financial commitments. This heavily involves metrics related to Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions, packaging circularity, water stewardship, and supply chain impacts. Rather than devising corporate strategy, this role provides the analytical foundation that proves whether the organization is meeting its targets. The objective is establishing traceable and verifiable ESG performance data that can withstand stringent statutory audits while empowering decision-makers with actionable insights.

A primary hurdle will be managing dependencies across fragmented source systems and data platforms without holding direct authority over the underlying data engineering teams. Harmonizing legacy operational tools into modern reporting layers can surface persistent data discrepancies and extraction delays. Balancing urgent ad-hoc reporting requests against the discipline of structured backlog management presents another regular tension. The role demands firm governance to avoid derailment by technical debt while meeting high-visibility disclosure deadlines across multiple geographies.

A typical day could begin with a stand-up meeting with data analysts and Product Owners to review the delivery backlog, address operational bugs, and adjust sprint priorities. You might then transition into an alignment call with sustainability stakeholders to clarify calculation rules for incoming regulatory disclosure requirements. In the afternoon, you could review data lineage documentation and control frameworks ahead of an internal audit checkpoint, followed by a coaching 1-on-1 with an analyst to unblock dashboard builds. The day might conclude by liaising with platform architects to troubleshoot data feed dependencies.

This position offers high visibility at the intersection of enterprise analytics, corporate compliance, and sustainability. Successful execution demonstrates your capacity to operate at scale, opening progression routes into senior data leadership or broader ESG governance. As non-financial reporting regulations become as rigorous as traditional financial reporting, professionals who master audit-grade ESG architecture will be exceptionally well-positioned for strategic leadership roles in large multinational enterprises.

Internally, you will collaborate extensively with the corporate sustainability team, Product Owners, and Data & Analytics delivery teams. You will also coordinate regularly with enterprise platform managers, data stewards, and data engineers to manage source-system dependencies. You will interact with internal audit and compliance groups to review control designs and data lineage, while directly guiding and developing the members of your DIS sustainability analytics team.