Western Digital · 2 months ago
Program Manager, Sustainability
San Jose, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
7+ years expWestern Digital is a leading company focused on powering global innovation in technology. They are seeking a sustainability communications and employee engagement expert to develop and implement ESG communication strategies, engage employees, and embed sustainability into core business functions.
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Responsibilities
Develop and implement robust communication strategies that build trust, drive engagement, and enhance reputation
Collaborate with Marketing, PR, and Comms to develop timely, meaningful and high-quality assets, including blogs, press releases, white papers, and thought leadership articles
Develop resources and templates to enable Sales and support customer-facing sustainability communications
Manage, maintain, and update content and resources on WD sustainability websites
Support development of sustainability program decks, presentations, and artifacts
Drive strategy, programming, and narratives for sustainability efforts at key industry conferences and company events
Organize events and activities to engage and mobilize employees for sustainability causes
Design employee-facing sustainability training and education programs, driving high participation rates and concrete actions
Create and promote employee-facing sustainability resources, including playbooks, toolkits, and how-to-guides
Establish a sustainability-focused Employee Resource Group (ERG) and relevant charter to help educate and engage the broader organization
Build strong relationships with sustainability champions in all business functions
Engage all functions to identify and incubate ESG-related change management opportunities, establish business cases, and develop meaningful and actionable commitments and KPIs in alignment with business goals and values
Track, quantify, and communicate the value and impacts of sustainability initiatives
Integrate sustainability commitments and KPIs into relevant teams' annual planning and goal setting processes
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in communications, marketing, environmental science, sustainability, or a related field
7+ years of experience in ESG communication and engagement
Sustainability domain knowledge and expertise (climate, environment, water, circularity, etc.)
Proven record in developing effective communication strategies and generating high impact content and stories for all key audiences
Experience in sustainability training design and technical writing
Experience in mobilizing a big group of employees and organizing sustainability activities
Experience in developing business cases and driving change management efforts
Excellent project management skills, and ability to execute in a complex, fast-paced large corporate environment
Natural affinity to be reflective, to learn from challenges, and demonstrate resilience
Highly motivated, self-starter, results-oriented with the ability to work on multiple deliverables at the same time and drive projects to completion
Preferred
A Master's degree is a plus
Benefits
Competitive compensation package and benefits.
Company
Western Digital
Western Digital helps customers capture, preserve, access, and transform an ever-increasing diversity of data.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$901.37M2023-10-31Post Ipo Debt· $1.37M
2023-01-31Post Ipo Equity· $900M
2015-09-30Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Sesh Tirumala
SVP, CIO
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Alvin B. Phillips
Founder
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