Merck & Co., Inc.

Job Description

Our Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) team is passionate about bringing our medicines and vaccines to our customers around the world, while maintaining worker health and safety as our number one priority. 

Position Description:

The Senior Specialist will report to the Director, Environmental Sustainability Center of Excellence (CoE) within Global Safety & Environment (GSE). Actionable data is critical to the success of corporate sustainability programs.

This position is responsible for helping to develop environmental sustainability strategies, programs, and initiatives through the tracking of progress against, and reporting on, the company’s sustainability targets - including our climate change commitments. The role will provide essential support to sites and the business by tracking environmental performance data, developing/implementing sustainability tools, following external reporting trends, and supporting internal and external communications regarding our company’s programs and performance. 

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Supports global efforts to achieve corporate environmental sustainability goals by serving as the focal point for the collection, quantification, and analysis of critical environmental data, including company energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) data. Collaborates with stakeholders in various business units.
• Supports external reporting and disclosures regarding the company’s environmental sustainability programs and performance via the company’s ESG Progress Report, CDP Reports, and other country-specific reports. Supports internal reporting of progress versus metrics through scorecards.
• Develops understanding of the environmental footprint of the company’s operations, supply chain, products, and packaging by developing and implementing sustainability collection, quantification, evaluation, and reporting systems and tools, such as enterprise data systems, economic input/output modeling, carbon foot-printing evaluations, etc. 
• Benchmarks with peer pharmaceutical companies, other industries, and non-governmental organizations to identify external trends with respect to environmental sustainability data reporting best practices. 
• Represents the company at external sustainability meetings and forums.
• Recognizes and responds to evolving environmental sustainability trends, market conditions, regulatory requirements, etc. Evaluates and integrates the information to proactively identify actions needed to address any potential impacts on company reporting.
• Participate and/or lead cross-functional projects as assigned. Complete all milestones and assigned action items by established deadlines. Adhere to all financial commitments and processes.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Engineering or Science

Required Experience and Skills: 

• At least 3 years of sustainability and/or EHS program implementation experience
• Knowledge of global sustainability trends
• Strong data analysis and project management skills with a track record of successful cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to simultaneously balance and adjust to multiple changing priorities and make decisions with speed and accuracy

Preferred Experience and Skills:

• Experience with development or implementation of sustainability data reporting systems 
• Experience performing corporate greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting using the GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separation package, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Expected salary range:

$97,680.00 - $153,700.00Available benefits include bonus eligibility, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days.  For Washington State Jobs, a summary of benefits is listed here.

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