Manager, Sustainability Program – Stakeholder Engagement

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Establish and nurture relationships with key stakeholder groups.

• Facilitate delivery through organized weekly check-ins with workstream leaders.

• Identify risks, eliminate obstacles, and escalate issues as necessary.

• Maintain oversight of program progress and ensure stakeholder alignment.

• Represent Sysco's sustainability initiatives externally and cultivate partnerships.

• Align stakeholders around common sustainability objectives and promote value-chain collaboration.

• Serve as Sysco's representative in external forums and pinpoint opportunities for impact and business value.

• Encourage collaboration, navigate interdependencies, and foster shared ownership of sustainability results.

• Oversee and manage meetings related to sustainability for the Board, ELT, CEO, senior leaders, teams, and cross-functional groups.

• Create executive-level PowerPoint presentations that distill complex information.

• Manage the sustainability communications and collateral calendar.

• Collaborate with Marketing and Corporate Communications on sustainability messaging.

• Provide guidance on greenwashing risks and communicate sustainability claims with thoroughness and integrity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree is required.

• A degree in Sustainability is preferred.

• 4–6 years of experience in project management, transformation, strategy, communications, or sustainability.

• Strong passion for and commitment to the sustainability mission.

• Demonstrated success in managing complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and workstreams.

• Comfortable engaging with senior executives and translating strategic goals into actionable plans and deliverables.

• Exceptional writing and presentation skills.

• Proficiency in Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and project management tools such as Smartsheet, Planner, and Asana.

• Strategic program management capabilities.

• Ability to influence cross-functional teams.

• Strong skills in executive communication and storytelling.

• Experience in change management and transformation.

• Skills in project tracking and prioritization.

• Mastery of PowerPoint.

• Systems thinking and mapping of interdependencies.

• Sound judgment and rigor regarding sustainability claims.

• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States.

• Occasional travel may be necessary.

🏝️ Benefits

• Eligibility to participate in the Company's Incentive Plan.

• Access to Sysco benefits information at SyscoBenefits.com.

• Reasonable accommodations will be made to facilitate participation.

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.