Materials Management Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Assist in comprehensive sports sustainability initiatives and environmental evaluations.

• Conduct material stream assessments, encompassing collection, sorting, contamination analysis, and interpretation of recycling, composting, landfill, reuse, and donation pathways.

• Facilitate sustainability assessments and solutions aimed at waste reduction, diversion, procurement, and life cycle evaluations.

• Assess end-of-life treatment options and identify opportunities for source reduction, reuse, recycling, composting, and vendor-practice enhancements.

• Analyze waste, procurement, and operational data to determine diversion rates, recognize trends, evaluate data quality, and produce customer-ready reports.

• Support sustainability assessments, implementation initiatives, and final environmental, social, and economic reports.

• Research and implement strategies for waste reduction and diversion.

• Create and deliver training materials for waste sorting, diversion objectives, back-of-house procedures, and event-day execution.

• Collaborate with haulers, suppliers, concessionaires, custodial teams, venue operators, customers, and other stakeholders.

• Assist in supplier engagement through data requests, follow-ups, and review of materials, packaging, hauling, and disposal information.

• Calculate waste diversion results using universal standards like UL and TRUE.

• Aid project managers with the on-site implementation of programs at stadiums and events.

• Integrate social sustainability priorities into waste reduction and GHG emissions strategies.

• Oversee data collection, management, analysis, and reporting workflows to ensure customer-ready delivery.

• Design strategies for data collection, including source mapping, data-owner identification, request templates, collection timelines, evidence requirements, and escalation paths.

• Collect, clean, reconcile, transform, and organize complex datasets while preserving source traceability.

• Develop data workflows, calculation models, data dictionaries, process documentation, QA/QC checks, and version-control practices.

• Evaluate data completeness, accuracy, consistency, and representativeness while identifying anomalies and gaps and escalating risks.

• Prepare customer-ready tables, visualizations, dashboards, reports, presentations, and methodology documentation.

• Support customer meetings by preparing materials, presenting findings, documenting decisions, and executing follow-up actions.

• Enhance templates, workflows, automation, and reporting structures for increased efficiency and scalability.

• Responsibly integrate AI-enabled tools and automation into materials management workflows.

• Maintain organized project records to ensure continuity, auditability, customer review, and compliance.

• Promote safety and adherence to safety, environmental, federal, state, and local regulations.

• Engage in self-education on sustainability topics, issues, and trends.

• Organize and interpret data.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must reside and work in the U.S.

• Bachelor's Degree (accredited) in Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Sustainability, Business, or a related field, or a High School Diploma/GED (accredited) with four years of relevant experience.

• At least 2 years of relevant work experience in project/business management beyond the education requirement.

• 3 years of relevant work experience is preferred.

• Strong preference for experience in waste management, material minimization and diversion programs, or sustainable material management planning.

• Experience analyzing data and compiling waste diversion reports.

• Background in working within sports venues and event operations or a similar facility.

• Foundational knowledge of sustainable materials management, waste hierarchy principles, circular economy concepts, and common end-of-life treatment pathways.

• Proficient understanding of waste reduction and diversion methods, including mechanical recycling, organics processing, and reuse.

• Advanced Excel capabilities, encompassing complex formulas, lookups, pivot tables, data validation, structured tables, and quality-control techniques.

• Strong data management skills, including data cleaning, reconciliation, transformation, documentation, file organization, and version control.

• Ability to assess data quality, identify anomalies and gaps, document assumptions and limitations, and formulate practical resolution strategies.

• High proficiency with Microsoft Office and adaptability to new software, data platforms, and emissions-management systems.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and a willingness to responsibly incorporate them into workflows.

• Willingness to travel up to 35% to operational sites.

• Comfort with project travel lasting up to two weeks at a time.

• Ability to work extended hours and weekends as required by events.

• Flexible to work remotely, in an office, or at a customer site.

• Capability to multitask across various projects.

• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

• A genuine interest in the sports and entertainment industry.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Life insurance

• Short-term disability

• Stock purchase plan

• Company matching on a 401(k)

• Paid vacation

• Paid holidays

• Paid personal days

• Bonus eligibility

• REAL ID or TSA-approved alternative for business travel/federal property (must have or be willing to obtain)