Environmental Social and Governance Manager - PCC

Overview

What We Do

We calm the confusion of IT by guiding the connection between people and technology. If a customer is looking for a better way to manage their warehouse inventory, equip their workforce, or secure their data, we make it happen. All it takes is finding the right combination of tech hardware, software, cloud solutions, and support services. That’s what we do. We’re the IT Department’s IT Department.

Who We Are

Our team is made stronger by a multitude of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. It’s what makes Connection unique—what drives us to innovate and create technology solutions that stand apart from the crowd. We’d love for you to be a part of that fabric, to share your ideas and experiences with a team that thrives on fresh thinking, creativity, and helping others.

Why You Should Join Us

You’ll find supportive teammates and a rewarding career at Connection—plus great benefits. We take pride in supporting employees with a total rewards package that provides financial, emotional, and physical resources for you and your family.  Our compensation, 401k plans, medical insurance, and other benefits are progressive and competitive.  We value the importance of our employees’ emotional wellbeing. To support employees, we provide free therapy visits, mental health coaching and tools, and meditation resources. You’ll also enjoy a generous paid time off package that includes not only vacation and sick time, but also Wellness and Volunteer Time Off days. 

Responsibilities

The Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Manager, reporting to the Senior Vice President of Operations, works under general supervision and relies on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals. The ESG Manager works collaboratively across functions in a key role directing and implementing integrated ESG and corporate responsibility strategy, while driving and monitoring progress on defined ESG objectives, communicating accomplishments to internal and external stakeholders and building an awareness and culture of sustainability across the Company.

Collaborates closely with the Company’s internal stakeholders (including Operations, Human Resources, Facilities, Legal, and Sales) to develop an integrated and coordinated corporate sustainability strategy, with objectives designed to drive business results, reduce risk and enhance the Company’s reputation on environmental and social issues.•Partners cross-functionally to build sustainability metrics into short and long-term strategic and operational planning objectives and measure and monitor progress against key strategies, objectives, and performance targets.•Develops and leads cross-functional initiatives to improve the company's ESG performance, including identifying opportunities for improvement, implementing best practices, and engaging with stakeholders to drive change.•Collaborates with operations and legal to develop strategic communications plans on ESG priorities tailored to various stakeholder groups (internal and external); collaborate with Finance (External Reporting) and Legal on ESG disclosures for annual proxy statement, financial reports; and other regulatory disclosures. Develop a strategy to prepare and meet changing regulatory reporting requirements.•Leads ESG reporting practices, including Company's first material assessment, developing, and publishing Company’s annual ESG report, aligned with leading ESG disclosure standards, coordinating data collection across departments; enhancing enterprise wide ESG reporting standards, tracking and analyzing ESG performance data, and producing reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.•Liaises with key ESG external rating agencies such Ecovadis, MSCI, Sustainalytics, and ISS; annually benchmarks our ESG progress compared to peers; produce recommendations on disclosures, programs, and/or policies, and work with internal stakeholders to enact these recommendations. Partner closely with teams on industry surveys, information requests, and customer social audits.•Manages ongoing development of the internal ESG performance dashboard for quarterly and annual tracking; prepares regular updates to executive team and Board of Directors on ESG trends, priorities, and initiatives.•Stays up-to-date on regulatory changes and industry trends related to ESG reporting, communicates information to relevant stakeholders, and integrates new requirements into reporting processes, in collaboration with the controllership organization; stays informed regarding emerging sustainability issues and best practices; identifies opportunities for collaboration and assists with development of policy recommendations.•Serves as a resource for internal partners for ESG reporting/programs and broader communications needs and opportunities including customer inquiries and Bid responses that require Connection ESG information.•Champions programs of social awareness, diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) and corporate responsibility.•Partners during request for proposal (RFP) process to provide information and report updates as needed to maintain sustainability initiatives.•Directly manages program and develops strong cross-functional relationships to influence company wide-change.

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Qualifications

Minimum of five (5) years experience in an ESG role with experience related to sustainability/corporate governance/ESG, with direct experience developing and implementing social governance,•CSR/ESG reporting programs experience•Prior managerial experience in a similar role or capacity•Additional professional certification will be an added advantage•Hands-on experience with government policies and regulations as well as monitoring•Self-motivated and experienced in transition situations where there is rapid change•Capability to thrive in a fast-paced and highly demanding environment