PharmEasy - Head - ESG - B2B Business

Head ESG ( B2B Business)

About the Role :

Head, ESG and Sustainability to setup, lead and execute on our strategic objectives related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) opportunities and initiatives across our business units. You will have the opportunity to work with management, employees, customers, vendors, and shareholders to formulate the Company's approach to ESG and sustainability. The role requires an ability to understand the unique positioning of API as a disruptive technology based healthcare platform and accordingly, develop a sustainability practice grounds up that creates near term impact for all our key stakeholders. The role requires an ability to work with multiple business units and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure appropriate goals, metric and performance measures are enhanced and delivered.

To be considered for this role, you need to have a demonstrated ability to develop an ESG program to achieve stated goals and lead a cross-functional team in execution of the strategy. This is a highly visible role working closely with key business and functional leaders including human resources, operations, supply chain, logistics and legal. The scope includes all businesses, functions, and locations. We are looking for someone with a passion and demonstrated ability in leading transformative change, an ability to work cross functionally while driving solutions and exceptional decision-making, problem solving and negotiation skills.

Key Responsibilities:

- Setup, lead the ESG and Sustainability strategy, program and roadmap, and ensure rapid execution of agreed initiatives

- Develop the overall strategy, priorities and narrative for our ESG and Sustainability efforts and execute a proactive communications strategy (internal and external) that includes the identification and implementation of key performance and data-driven goals, milestones, and metrics.

- Team up with key internal stakeholders (Business, Investor Relations, Operations, Human Resources, Legal, Finance) to define metrics, goals, milestones and performance measures, and partner to effectively implement and track progress.

- Engage with key external stakeholders to raise awareness of our commitments and progress on our ESG efforts, including framing and delivering ESG messaging for investor engagement, and ensure ESG inquiries are properly vetted and responded to.

- Collaborate with key business and functional leaders to identify opportunities, prioritize strengths, and facilitate timely and constructive program evaluations.

- Responsible for developing and publishing a Corporate Sustainability Report

- Develop methodologies to assess the viability or success of our initiatives and efforts and use advanced analytics to analyze performance and inform decision making.

- Develop and execute a plan for collecting, storing, validating and distributing ESG and Sustainability data and content for reporting and responding to key stakeholder requests.

- Understand the broader industry landscape to identify critical competitive needs and collaborate on the business, operations, and functional actions to support our strategy.

- Actively track global trends, developments, disclosures, and tools, including metrics and KPIs, and effectively communicate updates and implications with the appropriate stakeholders.

- Continuously monitor ESG and Sustainability developments, industry standards and regulations that may affect the Company and adapting the ESG and Sustainability program as appropriate

- Evaluate effectiveness of our ESG and Sustainability program, including reviewing, reporting on, facilitating, and advocating continuous improvement in the company's ratings as measured by leading and relevant ESG standards, frameworks and rating agencies and NGOs.

Desired Skills & Experience:

- Master's degree or post graduate work in Business, ESG, environmental sustainability or management, CSR, or a related field preferred.

- 7+ years professional experience related to ESG, environmental sustainability or management, or CSR, with direct experience developing and implementing ESG reporting programs

- Ability to work collaboratively and cross-functionally) in a fast-paced environment

- Highly organized and comfortable managing multiple work streams at once

- Exceptional critical thinking and ability to professionally advance others- understanding of ESG metrics and goals

- Excellent verbal and written communicator

- Professional certification preferred.