Director of Environmental Sustainability (NY)

National Grid is hiring a Director of Environmental Sustainability for our Safety Health & Environment department in New York, NY.

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live.

The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry. To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business.

Job Purpose

The Director of NY Environmental Sustainability is responsible for supporting the NY business unit to drive achievement of National Grid’s environmental sustainability goals as set out in the Responsible Business Charter (RBC). This role will support the NY business in its efforts to deliver on our environmental sustainability goals by leading a small team responsible for embedding environmental RBC commitments and ambitions into end-to-end strategy, planning and performance processes, ensuring NY’s environmental sustainability goals align with Group Responsible Business commitments, overseeing the monitoring and internal reporting progress against BU commitments and fulfilling external environmental sustainability reporting, disclosure, and compliance needs.

Key Accountabilities

Ensure environmental sustainability commitments are fully embedded into end-to-end NY business planning and performance processes.

- Ensure the most material environmental sustainability commitments are embedded into business planning processes and plans, including long-term strategic business planning, annual planning, and quarterly rolling forecasts

- Ensure environmental sustainability commitments are embedded into business performance processes, including Operational Review Meetings (ORM), Business Review Meetings (BRM), Monthly Business Reviews (MBR), quarterly RBC deep dives and feeding YE data into various Group Exec reporting including the CEO Scorecard

Ensure NY’s environmental sustainability goals are in line with Group environmental sustainability goals as set out in the Responsible Business Charter.

- Coordinate with the Sustainability CoE and NY Environmental Sustainability team to regularly refresh of progress against the scope 1, 2, 3 CTP glidepaths where most material; ensure glidepaths are aligned in the BU with key partners including the wider Transformation and Strategy team, relevant operational teams, and where useful NY’s glidepaths

- Oversee the development of NY contributions to other Group environmental sustainability goals such as on biodiversity, supply chains and assurance

Ensure accurate and timely delivery of external sustainability reporting and disclosures in NY on an ongoing basis along with helping to shape and support rate cases.

- Compliance obligations associated with NYS GHG related regulations

- Support GHG reporting related to NY rate cases to ensure alignment with state and Group reporting requirements

Ensure the successful delivery of environmental sustainability projects, programs, and external engagements.

- Support the CoE to advance environmental sustainability initiatives, such as ESG automation improvements

- Participate in external industry working groups, investor sessions, task forces, conferences, etc. that drive sustainability priorities across the NY business unit.

Manage the delivery, performance and development of the NY Environmental Sustainability team.

- Setting annual objectives, regularly reviewing performance

- Giving timely, open and honest feedback

- Encouraging team development through things such personalised development plans

- Champion NY support for sustainability Communities of Practice (CoPs)

Qualifications

- Bachelor’s Degree and at least 10 years of expertise in environmental sustainability, including in key areas such as GHG emissions accounting, science-based targets, decarbonization levers in the energy sector, nature, etc.

- At least 5 years of direct, people leadership experience - to build a trusting team environment, where all are equally welcomed and valued – is required.

- Awareness of NY-specific influences on environmental sustainability, such as state policy and plans is required.

- Experience managing senior relationships across business areas is highly preferred.

- Ability to develop cooperative and constructive working relationships.

- A valid drivers license that meets National Grid’s Safe Driver policy is required.

Leadership Requirements

- High personal and professional integrity and strong work ethics.

- Authoritative and emotionally intelligent, able to challenge and influence at senior levels across a large, complex organization.

- Passionate about sustainability, with high levels of enthusiasm and drive to achieve results.

- Ability to relate to and articulate vision to business stakeholders

- Willingness to accept change and provide direction.

- Strategic thinking and goal setting, aligning key performance indicators with team and company objectives.

- Demonstrated ability to manage adversity and challenging situations.

- Strong coaching and collaboration skills, within and across diverse and dispersed teams.

- Ensure the professional development of team members in ways that advance the skills and capabilities of the team and support individual career goals.

- Pro-active, can-do attitude, self-starter with the drive to make an impact.

More Information

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.