Senior Associate, Data Strategy – Advisory Services

🕒 March 24

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $87k - $127.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

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WM

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1968

📋 Compliance

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-07

Compliance • Privacy • Advertising

WM is a company that utilizes cookies and other tracking technologies on its website to collect information about user preferences and devices. These technologies may involve sharing data that is considered "sale," "sharing," or targeted advertising under certain privacy laws in the United States and Canada. WM provides users with options to manage their cookie preferences and opt-out of these data-sharing practices as required by different privacy regulations. The company ensures compliance with privacy laws and offers detailed privacy policies and notices to keep users informed about their rights. WM emphasizes user consent in managing and processing personal information for advertising and analytics purposes.

📋 Description

• Build on established data quality standards to design and implement processes and controls to ensure data integrity, conducting rigorous quality checks, and performing audits to validate compliance and accuracy. • Perform data audits to identify inconsistencies, anomalies, and opportunities to improve data applicability. • Document data flows, business rules, and technical definitions to ensure data lineage and transparency. • Create and deliver structured training programs for internal teams on how to manage, interpret, and effectively utilize data and dashboards. • Stay up-to-date with evolving standards, regulations, and best practices in data management, GHG accounting, sustainability reporting, including the COSO Internal Control over Sustainability Reporting standards. • Utilize WM data platform to manage GHG emissions data, create dashboards, and train internal users and clients on optimizing platform value. • Lead and support GHG accounting projects, ensuring alignment with recognized standards such as the GHG Protocol, ISO 14064, and other relevant frameworks. • Develop, analyze, and interpret large datasets related to environmental impacts and sustainability metrics. • Create compelling data visualizations and presentations that clearly communicate insights to clients and stakeholders. • Translate complex GHG inventory data and sustainability impact metrics into clear, actionable insights for customers, ensuring information is presented in frameworks and language that resonate with senior leadership and drive informed decision-making. • Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to assess organizational structures, benchmark environmental impacts, and integrate data-driven solutions into tangible client sustainability initiatives. • Adhere to project schedules, maintain multiple concurrent projects, and deliver high-quality outputs on time; analyze data sets and prepare reports and presentations tailored to customer needs. • Engage with customers to understand their sustainability ambitions and strategic context; advise on targets, improvement levers, and implementation strategies to achieve goals. • Collaborate with project teams to develop decarbonization plans, impact inventories, training resources, and stakeholder engagement tools. • Manage materials and environmental impact measurement protocols across projects, ensuring consistent use of tools and emissions management software; verify that data collection and reporting meet WM standards and accepted GHG calculation methodologies. • Support training of Associates and Analysts on WM project management processes and institutional project knowledge. • Support project renewal processes and customer engagement for new opportunities; assist with proposal development, including budgets and consulting deliverables. • Integrate environmental justice priorities into program development and align projects with leading frameworks (e.g., CDP, ISSB, SBTi). • Monitor external market trends and internal strategies to optimize WM service offerings and ensure compliance with local, state, and federal regulations. • Ensure compliance with client and regulatory requirements during assessments and program implementation; promote a culture of safety across all activities. • Identify sustainability success stories within assigned project portfolio and share consolidated metrics and case studies with manager.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics, Environmental Sciences, Sustainability, Business or related field; High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and four years of relevant experience • 4 years of relevant work experience in project/business management (in addition to education requirement) and Environmental or services industry experience required. • Experience working in sports venues and event operations strongly preferred. • Direct experience covering organizational sustainability strategy development in the sports and entertainment industry, demonstrated by track record of advising on ambitions, targets, and programs strongly preferred. • Experience managing sustainability project with on site logistics support preferred. • Experience managing material minimization and diversion programs, supply chain analyses, and sustainable material management planning preferred. • Self-motivated and directed to deliver results while working remotely or at a customer site • Experience with public speaking, presentations to large groups or training large groups • Ability to multitask and manage multiple large projects simultaneously • Ability to work long days and over weekends when required by events • Interest in the sports and entertainment industry • Ability to translate data into clear, actionable insights. • Detail-oriented • Strong leadership skill • Creative problem solving • Computer and tech savvy – must be adaptable to new programs and systems. • High proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, especially Excel. • Ability to travel up to 25%, up to two weeks at a time. • Experience with conducting a greenhouse gas inventory and executing mitigation initiatives, organizational advisory services, and materials management. • Experience with designing data control processes and auditing large, complex datasets for quality. • Experience shepherding ghg inventories through third-party verifications strongly preferred. • Experience using ESG software and designing data dashboard strongly preferred. • Experience researching life cycle assessment and embedded carbon research preferred. • Experience with intersectional environmentalism and environmental justice programs preferred. • Knowledge of circular economy, sustainable materials management, and zero waste design concepts and principles strongly preferred. • Experience with sustainability risk and management frameworks, sport-specific or otherwise preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical • Dental • Vision • Life Insurance • Short Term Disability • Stock Purchase Plan • Company match on 401K • Paid Vacation • Holidays • Personal Days