CSR Jobs | Environmental Specialist at Brooks Sports, Inc.
Who We Are:
Brooks is a team of passionate people united by a desire to do meaningful work, lead healthy lives and make a difference. We share a focused mission: to inspire everyone to run and be active. That’s it. No distractions—it’s all about the run. Through science, creativity, service, authenticity and connection, we obsess over delivering the best running gear on the planet. We do it our way, with our unique spirit, with a goal of being more relevant to runners than any other brand, day after day and mile after mile. We are determined to innovate, challenging ourselves to lead thought at every turn. Inside these walls and on the roads, tracks and trails, we live and breathe Run Happy, celebrating the positive impact running has on our lives and others. We inject it into all we do because it makes everything better, smarter, more fun and more memorable. Our company culture defines us, bonds us together and creates the conditions for success. It is lived daily as a behavioral expression of our collective set of brand values: Serve People, Lead Thought, Play as a Team, Compete Every Day, Demonstrate Integrity, Have Fun and Be Active. If you’re on our team, it means you’re part of creating something extraordinary. You’re part of Brooks.
Your Job:
As the Environmental Specialist at Brooks you will play a key role in deepening our understanding and management of environmental impacts across our business and supply chain. This is an entry level position that will support the corporate responsibility department’s initiatives, with a specific focus on coordinating the collection of relevant data to better our understanding of environmental impacts and support the implementation of performance improvement initiatives, to ensure we continue innovation and thought leadership in this area for years to come.
Your Responsibilities:
- Coordinate and expand the data collection efforts both within the organization and throughout the supply chain.
- Provide support with baseline understanding and performance improvement initiatives for key environmental impacts that support our environmental strategy.
- Coordinate and expand employee engagement program, creating internal communication materials and campaigns to champion sustainability throughout the organization.
- Coordinate with relevant internal teams to align goals and strategies.
- Drive external brand collaboration through participation in the OIA Sustainability Working Group.
- Support the corporate responsibility team in the development of external communications on our environmental performance, including our corporate responsibility report.
- Conduct research and contribute ideas for innovative performance improvement initiatives.
- Perform related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
- Educational experience to include Bachelor’s degree in environmental management, environmental sciences, sustainable business, or other applicable technical degree.
- 1-3 years of experience in environmental related work is preferred.
- Excellent understanding of environmental and broader sustainability issues.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, demonstrating effective listening through concise, clear verbal and written communication.
- Excellent interpersonal skills that inspire and build trust resulting in effective working relationships across the company.
- Keen attention to detail in planning, organization and execution of tasks, while still seeing the big picture and understanding how all of the pieces fit together and affect one another.
- Ability to anticipate how a decision made can affect our customers, our partners, our products or other departments’ operations and/or morale; “connecting the dots.”
- Familiarity with sustainability rankings and other reporting mechanisms, such as the GRI.
- Proficient skills in Microsoft Excel, Word and Power Point.
- Ability to travel domestically and internationally.
- Passionate participation in Brooks’ sports activities a plus, overridden by the ability to understand and empathize with the runner in order to develop loyal, engaging relationships with our customers and the Brooks community.
- Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
To Apply:
Please visit the Brooks Sports careers website.
