Director, Climate & Energy

Job Description

THE ROLE

As Director, Climate & Energy, you will lead the implementation of Live Nation's global decarbonization and climate resilience strategy with an initial focus on operational emissions (Scope 1 & 2) related to our venues, festivals, and offices. This role will report into the Sr. Director Global Sustainability and work with cross-functional teams including legal, finance, procurement, operations, risk, compliance and more to develop and deliver a comprehensive and sound strategy that delivers against our sustainability goals while assuring the company is prepared for and compliant with external mandates. This role offers flexible job location within the United States.

WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
• Lead global decarbonization strategy and implementation:
• Manage our global decarbonization strategy across our portfolio of 200+ venues, festivals, and offices worldwide.
• Partner with key internal and external stakeholders on the successful implementation of our strategy
• Track and communicate performance against global climate targets
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainability performance metrics
• Climate Risk Management:
• Work in partnership with global compliance and risk teams to integrate climate risk into enterprise risk management
• Implement climate risk mitigation strategies, key metrics and action plans
• Develop climate risk mitigation plans, policies, training, and protocols to assure climate resilience
• Collaborate with divisions to provide training and awareness on climate risk management best practices
• Support the development of a climate risk dashboard to record and track progress against climate risks
• Support internal risk and compliance team to prioritize risks and develop controls to mitigate risks
• Identify risk owners and support those owners in defining their process, controls and metrics
• Work with risk and compliance teams to assure centralized risk register is updated and maintained including identified risks, assessments, risk owners, and mitigation plans
• Perform sites specific risk assessments where needed
• Set targets and implementation plans not covered by decarbonization target e.g. venue sustainable design standards & building energy performance standards
• Develop and implement process for tracking capital expenditures tied to climate risk management & mitigation
• Compliance and Environmental Reporting:
• Ensure the company's environmental and climate risk practices align with regulatory guidelines; establish systems and processes for tracking internal compliance & communicating to the business
• Lead on the development of climate related reporting mandates including but not limited to TCFD, CDP, and SEC climate risk disclosures
• Compile and provide other necessary environmental data to compliance team for other external reporting requirements
• Communication and Engagement:
• Build strong relationships with cross-functional internal teams as well as external partners and be comfortable championing sustainability with a variety of audiences – from executives to venue and festival operations teams.
• Lead on internal communication with investor relations and other members of the executive team and board to provide updates on energy and climate risk for the org
• Exercise an acute sense of judgement and tact when navigating competing agendas and priorities
• Confidence with public speaking and presentations.
• This role requires 25% travel

WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
• At least five years of experience in climate resilience and energy management programs including responsibilities for decarbonization strategy and execution
• Familiarity with climate risk management and reporting frameworks like TCFD
• Demonstrated experience strategizing and implementing sustainability programs across a large, matrixed organization and/or working in corporate consulting with a specialty in decarbonization and climate risk management
• Experience in policy development and implementation
• Experience driving systems change and processes
• Experience developing business cases and budgeting; business analytics and cost-benefit analysis
• Strong executive communications & stakeholder engagement including effective communication with variety of diverse stakeholders
• Ability to travel, including weekends
• Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
• Acute sense of judgment, tact and diplomacy

BENEFITS & PERKS
Our motto is 'Taking Care of Our Own' through 6 pillars of benefits:
• HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
• YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
• WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
• FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
• CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
• OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network

Live Nation's policy regarding vaccinations and masking related to a pandemic or other infectious disease control measures, acts of God, health and safety mandates and/or restrictions imposed by applicable local, state or federal governments has evolved over time. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated from such infectious diseases for which vaccinations are available. You are expected to follow Live Nation's health and safety protocols and policies as they change from time to time.


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The expected compensation for this position is:
$132,000.00 USD - $165,000.00 USD
** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-gp91qo-18-225-56-181-42 in your application.