Palo Alto Director Environmental Sustainability 

United States, California 

984914591

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Palo Alto Networks has an exciting opportunity to be a foundational part of its Corporate Responsibility team, advancing its environmental, social and governance efforts for a more safe and secure digital future. As Director of Environmental Sustainability, you will be responsible for managing the company’s environmental sustainability efforts and ensuring progress towards commitments and goals. You will be both strategic and detail oriented, able to anticipate challenges ahead while also advancing key projects with stakeholders. You will partner closely with Finance, Places, Product, Sourcing, Legal and subject matter expert teams across the business to advance environmental sustainability practices. Additionally, you will be a key partner to ensure regulation-readiness for environmental-related topics.

Your Impact

• Continually evolve environmental sustainability strategy that aligns with corporate goals and sustainability commitments.

• Build and implement initiatives (often in partnership with key business stakeholders) to advance sustainability practices and progress, including reducing GHG emission.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate sustainability practices into business operations, supply chain management, and product lifecycle management.

• Strengthen process and controls around environmental practices and reporting to ensure regulation-readiness, including the EU Corporate Sustainability Report Directive.

• Lead environmental sustainability reporting to external stakeholders including CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project, EcoVadis and customer inquiries.

• Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of sustainability programs through data analysis and reporting, and collaborate with stakeholders to adjust accordingly.

• Partnering with key stakeholders on environmental-related regulation such as UK Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR), Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS)

• Build the capabilities in terms of environmental sustainability with key stakeholders, including being able to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.

• Stay up-to-date with emerging environmental trends, technologies, and regulations to drive continuous improvement in our sustainability initiatives.

• Represent the company and sustainability efforts both internally and externally with credibility and

Your Experience

• 12+ years of experience in environmental sustainability, especially in a global corporate technology company context

• Deep expertise in greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting protocols, assessing climate-related risks and opportunities, and frameworks underlying European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS)

• Experience utilizing carbon accounting software platforms, and leveraging them to track and communicate progress against company carbon reduction plans.

• Proven track record in setting project plan, effectively engaging necessary stakeholders, managing evolving timelines, and ensuring accuracy and completeness of reporting.

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain excellent working relationships with stakeholders of multiple levels; collaborative and clear communicator

• Excellent critical thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to present metrics, explain findings, and articulate issues and challenges together with proposed solutions

• Thrives in fast-paced environment and nimbly adapts to meet various stakeholder needs

• Effective listener and persuasive communicator able to influence actions and outcomes.

• Ability to multi-task and quickly prioritize projects and work well under pressure and tight deadlines

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $203000 - $278750/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.