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Live Nation Director, Climate & Energy in United States
Job Summary:
WHO ARE WE?
Live Nation Entertainment is the world’s leading live entertainment company, comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Media & Sponsorship. Ticketmaster is the global leader in event ticketing with over 500 million tickets sold annually and more than 12,000 clients worldwide. Live Nation Concerts is the largest provider of live entertainment in the world promoting more than 40,000 shows and 100+ festivals annually for nearly 4,000 artists in over 40 countries. These businesses allow Live Nation Media & Sponsorship to create strategic music marketing programs that connect over 1,000 brands with the 98 million fans that attend Live Nation Entertainment events each year. For additional information, visit www.livenationentertainment.com.
WHO ARE YOU?
Passionate and motivated. Driven, with an entrepreneurial spirit. Resourceful, innovative, forward thinking and committed. At Live Nation Entertainment, our people embrace these qualities, so if this sounds like you then please read on!
THE ROLE
As Director, Climate & Energy, you will lead the implementation of Live Nation's global decarbonization and climate resilience strategy with an initial focus on operational emissions (Scope 1 & 2) related to our venues, festivals, and offices. This role will report into the Sr. Director Global Sustainability and work with cross-functional teams including legal, finance, procurement, operations, risk, compliance and more to develop and deliver a comprehensive and sound strategy that delivers against our sustainability goals while assuring the company is prepared for and compliant with external mandates. This role offers flexible job location within the United States.
WHAT THIS ROLE WILL DO
Lead global decarbonization strategy and implementation:
Manage our global decarbonization strategy across our portfolio of 200+ venues, festivals, and offices worldwide.
Partner with key internal and external stakeholders on the successful implementation of our strategy
Track and communicate performance against global climate targets
Serve as an internal subject matter expert on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainability performance metrics
Climate Risk Management:
Work in partnership with global compliance and risk teams to integrate climate risk into enterprise risk management
Implement climate risk mitigation strategies, key metrics and action plans
Develop climate risk mitigation plans, policies, training, and protocols to assure climate resilience
Collaborate with divisions to provide training and awareness on climate risk management best practices
Support the development of a climate risk dashboard to record and track progress against climate risks
Support internal risk and compliance team to prioritize risks and develop controls to mitigate risks
Identify risk owners and support those owners in defining their process, controls and metrics
Work with risk and compliance teams to assure centralized risk register is updated and maintained including identified risks, assessments, risk owners, and mitigation plans
Perform sites specific risk assessments where needed
Set targets and implementation plans not covered by decarbonization target e.g. venue sustainable design standards & building energy performance standards
Develop and implement process for tracking capital expenditures tied to climate risk management & mitigation
Compliance and Environmental Reporting:
Ensure the company’s environmental and climate risk practices align with regulatory guidelines; establish systems and processes for tracking internal compliance & communicating to the business
Lead on the development of climate related reporting mandates including but not limited to TCFD, CDP, and SEC climate risk disclosures
Compile and provide other necessary environmental data to compliance team for other external reporting requirements
Communication and Engagement :
Build strong relationships with cross-functional internal teams as well as external partners and be comfortable championing sustainability with a variety of audiences – from executives to venue and festival operations teams.
Lead on internal communication with investor relations and other members of the executive team and board to provide updates on energy and climate risk for the org
Exercise an acute sense of judgement and tact when navigating competing agendas and priorities
Confidence with public speaking and presentations.
This role requires 25% travel
WHAT THIS PERSON WILL BRING
At least five years of experience in climate resilience and energy management programs including responsibilities for decarbonization strategy and execution
Familiarity with climate risk management and reporting frameworks like TCFD
Demonstrated experience strategizing and implementing sustainability programs across a large, matrixed organization and/or working in corporate consulting with a specialty in decarbonization and climate risk management
Experience in policy development and implementation
Experience driving systems change and processes
Experience developing business cases and budgeting; business analytics and cost-benefit analysis
Strong executive communications & stakeholder engagement including effective communication with variety of diverse stakeholders
Ability to travel, including weekends
Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
Acute sense of judgment, tact and diplomacy
BENEFITS & PERKS
Our motto is ‘Taking Care of Our Own’ through 6 pillars of benefits:
HEALTH: Medical, Vision and Dental benefits for you and your family, including Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
YOURSELF: Generous paid time off policy including paid holidays, sick time and paid days off for your birthday, Free concert tickets
WEALTH: 401(k) program with company match, Stock Program
FAMILY: New parent programs & support including caregiver leave and childcare cash, infertility support
CAREER: Tuition reimbursement, student loan repayment internal growth and development programs & trainings
OTHERS: Volunteer time off, crowdfunding network
Live Nation’s policy regarding vaccinations and masking related to a pandemic or other infectious disease control measures, acts of God, health and safety mandates and/or restrictions imposed by applicable local, state or federal governments has evolved over time. Currently, we strongly encourage employees to be fully vaccinated from such infectious diseases for which vaccinations are available. You are expected to follow Live Nation’s health and safety protocols and policies as they change from time to time.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We are passionate and committed to our people and go beyond the rhetoric of diversity and inclusion. You will be working in an inclusive environment and be encouraged to bring your whole self to work. We will do all that we can to help you successfully balance your work and homelife. As a growing business we will encourage you to develop your professional and personal aspirations, enjoy new experiences, and learn from the talented people you will be working with. It’s talent that matters to us and we encourage applications from people irrespective of their gender, race, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability status or caring responsibilities.
Live Nation strongly supports equal employment opportunity for all applicants regardless of age (40 and over), ancestry, color, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), family and medical care leave or the denial of family and medical care leave, mental or physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), marital status, domestic partner status, medical condition (including cancer and genetic characteristics), genetic information, military and veteran status, political affiliation, national origin (including language use restrictions), citizenship, race, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, and gender expression, sexual orientation, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law, rule, ordinance or regulation.
We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act and consistent with other similar and / or applicable laws in other areas.
We also afford equal employment opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability. For this reason, Live Nation will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant consistent with its legal obligations to do so, including reasonable accommodations related to pregnancy in accordance with applicable local, state and / or federal law. As part of its commitment to make reasonable accommodations, Live Nation also wishes to participate in a timely, good faith, interactive process with a disabled applicant to determine effective reasonable accommodations, if any, which can be made in response to a request for accommodations. Applicants are invited to identify reasonable accommodations that can be made to assist them to perform the essential functions of the position they seek. Any applicant who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact a Human Resources Representative to request the opportunity to participate in a timely interactive process. Live Nation will also provide reasonable religious accommodations on a case by case basis.
HIRING PRACTICESThe preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job
Live Nation recruitment policies are designed to place the most highly qualified persons available in a timely and efficient manner. Live Nation may pursue all avenues available, including promotion from within, employee referrals, outside advertising, employment agencies, internet recruiting, job fairs, college recruiting and search firms.
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The expected compensation for this position is:
$132,000.00 USD - $165,000.00 USD
** Pay is based on a number of factors including market location, qualifications, skills, and experience.
