Job Description

Company Description

McDonald\'s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. As the global leader in the food service industry, our legacy of innovation and hard work continues to drive us.

From drive thru updates to delivery to mobile order and pay, we are innovating quickly and growing. Joining McDonald\'s means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.



The Manager for Climate Strategy on Global Impact\'s Sustainability & ESG team will lead the development and deployment of McDonald\'s global net zero strategy with a focus on the supply chain. in partnership with teams across the business. This role will strategically engage internal and external partners and handle project management, resource development, communications, and reporting.

Job Responsibilities

• Manage the continued development and deployment of McDonald\'s global net zero supply chain strategy across functions, markets, categories, McDonald\'s System partners, and advisors focused on climate impact and resiliency, including project management of vendors and consultancies.
• As the McDonald\'s subject matter expert, build relationships cross-functionally with teams including impact, supply chain, customer experience, corporate and government relations, to bring this work to life for our customers.
• Collaborate to craft implementation roadmaps and develop our measurement systems to track progress on emissions reductions and risks with Global Supply Chain, suppliers, and other partners.
• Identify new partnerships, opportunities, and technologies for scaling change in a global landscape, including from McDonald\'s system and external sources.
• Ensure credibility with key external stakeholders in light of evolving expectations and climate science, assessing priority areas for action and the intersection between impact areas in nature, water and conversations on public health, human rights and diversity, equity & inclusion.
• Engagement with land-based accounting groups including at GHG Protocol and SBTi along with leading our CDP Supply Chain programme.
• Manage the supply chain data and insights in the McDonald\'s GHG accounting systems to enable internal strategy execution, and to contribute to external ESG reporting to demonstrate progress on targets in a way which is aligned to global guidance and stakeholder expectations.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability working in a sustainability role within a global corporation or organization across multiple markets with a focus on climate and supply chain sustainability.
• Experience in climate accounting, Scope 3 emissions management, and within industry working groups on climate and sustainability, bringing a strong stakeholder network and the ability to influence across industries, geographies and cultures.
• A global enterprise mindset and ability to navigate sensitive topics with many diverse partners internally and externally with the ability to develop practical business strategies for complex global sustainability impact areas.
• Exceptional project management and written and verbal communication skills, professionalism, flexibility, with a desire to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environmental with multiple cross-functional teams based across the world.
• Degree in sustainability, environmental management, agriculture, or a related discipline preferred.

Additional Information

Good to know; We have flexibility for the successful applicant to be located at MHQ in Chicago or our Shoreditch office in the UK. Relocation support will not be provided.

At McDonalds we are People from all Walks of Life...

People are at the heart of everything we do, and they make the McDonalds experience. We embrace diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture that means people can be their best authentic self in our restaurants and offices, which helps us to better serve our customers. We have a strong heritage of diversity and representation within our communities, which we are proud of. The diversity of our people, customers, Franchisees and suppliers gives us strength.

We do not tolerate inequality, injustice or discrimination of any kind. These are hugely important issues and a brand with our reach and relevance means we have a very meaningful role to play.

We also recognise our responsibility as a large employer to continue being active in our communities, helping to develop skills and drive aspirations that will help people to be more aware of the world of work and more successful within it, whether with McDonalds or elsewhere.

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