Climate Team Operations Specialist

This role is fundamentally a support and delivery position within HP's Climate and Customer Outcomes Team. The specialist could be responsible for building and maintaining dashboards and scorecards that track climate KPIs, analysing climate, LCA and customer datasets, and preparing recurring reporting packages for team leadership. Alongside analytics, they would coordinate project schedules, milestones and dependencies, and keep governance documentation, SOPs and audit-support evidence in order. Longer term, the role likely contributes to HP's broader climate strategy infrastructure, helping the team scale its data operations, tighten disclosure timelines and respond faster to customer climate-data requests. Because the team touches decarbonization, life cycle assessments, environmental disclosures and climate-risk assessments, this person gets a front-row seat to how a major manufacturer operationalises its climate commitments. Expect a blend of regular cycle work (KPI updates, reporting packs, governance reviews) with more ad-hoc research, benchmarking and cross-functional support as new initiatives land.

The learning curve here is unusually broad for an early-career role. The specialist could expect to develop hands-on skills in climate-data management, LCA concepts, carbon accounting and ESG reporting, areas that normally take years to accumulate exposure to. Building dashboards in Power BI or Tableau and working with Python, SQL or Power Query would sharpen their data toolkit in a real corporate setting. Beyond technical skills, the role offers practical experience in project coordination, governance and stakeholder management across multiple functions, GBU, Supply Chain, Finance, Responsible Sourcing and customer-facing teams. That cross-functional exposure is hard to replicate and tends to accelerate career optionality. Mentorship likely comes informally through working alongside experienced climate professionals, contributing to disclosure processes, and being embedded in a highly visible team where senior leaders rely on their outputs.

The ideal candidate likely holds a four-year degree in sustainability, environmental science, data analytics, business, engineering, supply chain or a related field, with roughly 2–4 years of experience in sustainability, operations, analytics or project support. They should be comfortable in Excel and PowerPoint, and ideally have some exposure to Power BI, Tableau or similar BI tools. On the soft-skills side, strong organisational habits, attention to detail and clear writing matter enormously: this role produces documentation, reporting packs and executive-ready materials. The ability to juggle multiple priorities and keep stakeholders informed is probably more decisive than deep technical mastery. Familiarity with sustainability concepts (carbon accounting, LCA, ESG reporting) would be a strong differentiator, as would any experience handling large datasets and translating them into actionable insights. The candidate doesn't need to be a climate expert yet, but should show genuine curiosity about the field.

Because HP is a large, matrixed organisation, tailor your application to show you understand what a climate operations role actually involves, not just passion for sustainability, but evidence of project coordination, data work and documentation discipline. Highlight concrete examples of dashboards you've built, KPIs you've tracked, or reporting cycles you've supported. In your cover letter, connect your experience to HP's specific climate priorities: decarbonization, life cycle assessments, disclosures and customer carbon-data engagement. Mentioning familiarity with tools like Power BI, SQL or Python would signal you can contribute quickly. If you've worked cross-functionally, describe how you kept multiple stakeholders aligned: that mirrors the team's operating model. For interviews, be ready to discuss how you'd approach validating climate data for accuracy, tracking disclosure timelines, or improving a manual process. Demonstrating analytical rigour and a process-improvement mindset will likely resonate more than generic sustainability enthusiasm.

This role sits at the centre of HP's climate accountability infrastructure, so the sustainability focus is likely on climate data integrity, decarbonization tracking and environmental disclosure readiness. The specialist supports life cycle assessments, which underpin how HP measures the footprint of its products across their life cycle, a critical input to both internal strategy and external claims. They would also contribute to climate-risk assessments and regulatory reporting, helping ensure HP's public commitments are backed by defensible data and documented methodologies. Customer climate-data solutions are another thread: corporate clients increasingly ask suppliers for carbon footprint data, and this team helps coordinate responses. Governance and audit-support work means the role directly touches the controls that make sustainability reporting credible. It's less about setting strategy and more about making sure the numbers and processes behind HP's climate story hold up.

One likely challenge is the sheer breadth of the remit (the role spans analytics, project management, governance, documentation and research) which demands strong prioritisation and the ability to context-switch without dropping detail. In a team this cross-functional, competing deadlines from disclosures, customer requests and internal reporting cycles could create pressure. Data quality is another hurdle. Climate and LCA data often comes from multiple sources with inconsistent formats or gaps, so validation and consolidation may be painstaking. Early-career professionals might find the governance and audit-support side less glamorous but equally demanding in terms of rigour. Finally, working within a 144,000-person organisation means navigating matrixed stakeholders, aligning on definitions and timelines, and sometimes waiting on inputs from teams with different priorities. Patience and clear communication would be essential.

A typical day might start with checking project trackers and updating dashboards, then moving into a stand-up or check-in with the Climate Team to review priorities and blockers. Mid-morning could involve analysing a dataset, maybe consolidating LCA inputs or reviewing customer carbon-data requests, and preparing slides or summaries for leadership. Afternoons may be filled with cross-functional meetings with supply chain, finance or customer-facing teams, followed by documentation work: updating SOPs, logging decisions or preparing audit evidence. There would be recurring rhythms around KPI updates and reporting packages, punctuated by ad-hoc research or support for workshops and stakeholder engagements. The variability comes from disclosure cycles and customer deadlines, which can spike workload. But the mix of analytical, organisational and collaborative tasks means no two days look identical.

This role looks designed as a launchpad. The broad exposure (LCA, disclosures, decarbonization, climate risk, customer engagement) gives the specialist a foundation to specialise later in any of those areas, whether moving deeper into climate data science, ESG reporting or sustainability programme management. Within HP, success in this position could open doors to more senior analyst, programme manager or sustainability strategy roles, especially given the team's high visibility and its interaction with senior leadership. Demonstrating delivery excellence on disclosures or data products would make internal mobility easier. Beyond promotion, the skills gained (BI tools, carbon accounting familiarity, governance and stakeholder management) are highly transferable across industries, positioning the candidate well for the growing global demand for climate-competent professionals.

The specialist would interact most closely with the Climate and Customer Outcomes Team itself, analysts, managers and leadership who rely on the dashboards, reports and project tracking this role produces. They'd also work regularly with adjacent functions: GBU, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Finance, Responsible Sourcing and CREWS, depending on the initiative. Customer-facing organisations are another key interface, particularly when corporate clients request climate or carbon-footprint data. External stakeholders may include auditors or partners involved in disclosure and assurance processes, though likely at arm's length through documentation support. The nature of these interactions is largely collaborative and service-oriented: gathering inputs, aligning on timelines, chasing data and translating findings into formats that different audiences can act on. Strong relationship management across functions would be central to getting things done.