Director Environmental Sustainability

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity to be a foundational part of its Corporate Responsibility team advancing its environmental social and governance efforts for a more safe and secure digital future. As Director of Environmental Sustainability you will be responsible for managing the companys environmental sustainability efforts and ensuring progress towards commitments and goals. You will be both strategic and detail oriented able to anticipate challenges ahead while also advancing key projects with stakeholders. You will partner closely with Finance Places Product Sourcing Legal and subject matter expert teams across the business to advance environmental sustainability practices. Additionally you will be a key partner to ensure regulationreadiness for environmentalrelated topics. 

Your Impact

• Continually evolve environmental sustainability strategy that aligns with corporate goals and sustainability commitments. 

• Build and implement initiatives (often in partnership with key business stakeholders) to advance sustainability practices and progress including reducing GHG emission.

• Collaborate with crossfunctional teams to integrate sustainability practices into business operations supply chain management and product lifecycle management.

• Strengthen process and controls around environmental practices and reporting to ensure regulationreadiness including the EU Corporate Sustainability Report Directive.

• Lead environmental sustainability reporting to external stakeholders including CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project EcoVadis and customer inquiries. 

• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability programs through data analysis and reporting and collaborate with stakeholders to adjust accordingly. 

• Partnering with key stakeholders on environmentalrelated regulation such as UK Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) Registration Evaluation Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

• Build the capabilities in terms of environmental sustainability with key stakeholders including being able to communicate technical information to a nontechnical audience.

• Stay uptodate with emerging environmental trends technologies and regulations to drive continuous improvement in our sustainability initiatives.

• Represent the company and sustainability efforts both internally and externally with credibility and

Qualifications :

Your Experience

• 12 years of experience in environmental sustainability especially in a global corporate technology company context

• Deep expertise in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting protocols assessing climaterelated risks and opportunities and frameworks underlying European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

• Experience utilizing carbon accounting software platforms and leveraging them to track and communicate progress against company carbon reduction plans.

• Proven track record in setting project plan effectively engaging necessary stakeholders managing evolving timelines and ensuring accuracy and completeness of reporting.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with stakeholders of multiple levels; collaborative and clear communicator

• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills with the ability to present metrics explain findings and articulate issues and challenges together with proposed solutions

• Thrives in fastpaced environment and nimbly adapts to meet various stakeholder needs

• Effective listener and persuasive communicator able to influence actions and outcomes.

• Ability to multitask and quickly prioritize projects and work well under pressure and tight deadlines

Additional Information :

The Team

Our People team at Palo Alto Networks works throughout the organization to enable...you guessed it people. Were one team driven to one mission statement. Each piece matters and within the people team you are focused on enabling our teams to resolve the worlds most challenging cybersecurity threats. Additionally you will be an integral member of the Corporate Responsibility team which focuses on integrating Sustainability throughout the organization for increased business resilience and longterm growth.

Compensation Disclosure 

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications experience and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level the starting base salary (for nonsales roles) or base salary commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $203000 $278750/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at  .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Our Commitment

Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at  .

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.