Senior Environmental Professional

About the role

The Environmental Sustainability Line of Business is responsible for setting the strategy and leading the planning and development of environmental projects to achieve The Walt Disney Company's (TWDC) environmental goals, which include emissions, watershed stewardship, waste, materials, and sustainable design.

Responsibilities

• Develop strategic implementation of environmental sustainability strategies in partnership with operations to reduce impact and increase operational effectiveness.
• Articulate environmental solutions through storytelling, leveraging data to evaluate performance and identify opportunities to enhance sustainability.
• Tackle environmental challenges by conducting site walkthroughs with area leaders, providing comprehensive follow-up and implementing actionable solutions to promote ongoing improvement.
• Consult with senior leadership across lines of business, providing subject matter expertise, insight, and strategic direction to ensure sustainability considerations are integrated into operational initiatives.
• Build support for environmental priorities across all levels of leadership at Walt Disney World by engaging and collaborating with global and local partners to share best practices and ensure consistency.
• Engage and interpret business challenges with complex, diverse partners (including Operating Participants and Disney Vacation Club) to lead, influence, and navigate environmental strategy and funding requirements.

Requirements

• 5 or more years of relevant experience
• Experience developing strategies with the agility to refocus and reprioritize to ensure progress across activities.
• Experience with framing complex issues into simple and easy to understand concepts, facilitating/presenting, influencing senior leaders, and engaging with all levels throughout the organization.
• Experience building and leading strong, trust-based, collaborative partnerships across various stakeholder groups.
• Experience in leveraging strong problem solving, project management, leadership, communication and influencing skills to lead culture change and develop a change adoption plan.
• Ability to spend up to an average 20-30 hours per week doing field work and hosting partners onstage and backstage.
• Ability to perform field studies, handling waste in a variety of different weather conditions and comfortably lift 40 pounds.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a change management, communications, business or related environmental field

Skills

• Knowledge of Walt Disney World operations or lines of business interactions with Operating Participants and Disney Vacation Club.
• Demonstrated experience in developing/implementing sustainability programs.

Benefits

Disney offers a rewards package to help you live your best life. This includes health and savings benefits, educational opportunities, and special extras that only Disney can provide. Learn more about our benefits and perks at https://jobs.disneycareers.com/benefits.

Pay

The hiring range for this position in Florida is $88,800.00-$121,900.00 per year.

Schedule

This is a Full Time position.