Corporate Planning & Management, Spend Management, Sustainable Operations, Associate, Birmingham
Location:
Birmingham, United Kingdom
Job Category:
Logistics
EU work permit required:
Yes
Job Description:
OUR IMPACT
The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governance strategies across the firm.
YOUR IMPACT
Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. This role sits within the Spend Management pillar.
The role requires collaboration with different functions across the firm on a regular basis, an ability to work independently, and ability to interact with senior professionals across the firm. It also entails in-depth analysis and reporting for senior management, requiring diligence and a commercial mindset. The candidate is required to work closely with global counterparts. Should have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
* Working with a range of internal and external stakeholders globally across all areas managed by the Sustainable Operations team, including vendor diversity, and operational and supply chain sustainability and net zero goals.
* Vendor Diversity: support the team to find and vet small and diverse vendors, manage relationships with advocacy bodies, track and report associated spend, deliver training and strategic initiatives, represent the firm at relevant conferences.
* Risk Management: assist with screening of environmental and human rights risks within supply chain and updating requirements documentation and training materials.
* Net Zero: assist in deployment of sustainability projects, incl. data collection, analysis, and implementation of strategies to reduce emissions across operations and supply chain.
* Reporting: support in managing sustainability data, benchmarking, performance metrics, and preparing reports to track progress against goals.
Qualifications:
* Passion for sustainability and diversity; preference is someone who has either studied this as a degree or degree module, and/or has experience working for organisations (incl. not for profits) on ESG-related matters. Relevant certifications are a plus (LEED/BREEAM/WELL, Certified Energy Management).
* Strong Microsoft office skills, in particular Excel and PowerPoint; must be able to handle spreadsheets.
* Numerate; ability to analyse numbers and draw insightful conclusions.
* Attention to detail; takes initiative to learn about vendor diversity and sustainability to broaden their knowledge and apply to day job; self-starter with ability to drive and deliver projects.
* Comfortable working in a dynamic environment and able to navigate a degree of ambiguity.
* Manage relationships with relevant local and global teams, and particularly across strategic sourcing, product finance, communications and business functions.
* Strong work ethic, results oriented, taking accountability for delivering quality output, with excellent numerical skills with good attention to detail.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at /careers.
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