Description
Cisco's Chief Sustainability Office works across the company to advance environmental sustainability strategy, deliver goals, and inform business decisions.
We are seeking a Director, Environmental Sustainability Management, to strengthen our ability to understand developments and determine their implications for Cisco.
As Director, Environmental Sustainability Management, you will serve as a strategic and analytical partner to the Chief Sustainability Officer and leaders across Cisco.
Your initial focus will include Cisco's updated Sustainability Strategy, AI and digital infrastructure, and Cisco's Energy Resilience priority.
Responsibilities:
- Work across the Chief Sustainability Office and Cisco to understand emerging developments and translate them into strategic implications, options, and recommendations.
- Strengthen priority sustainability workstreams with additional analytical depth.
- Develop Cisco's perspective on the environmental implications of AI and digital infrastructure.
- Analyze developments in energy systems and electricity markets.
- Support Cisco's net-zero strategy through quantitative analysis and scenario modelling.
- Assess interactions between technology, energy, supply chains, and resource demand.
- Develop, commission, and apply rigorous models, scenarios, and analytical frameworks.
- Translate complex scientific, technical, economic, and policy evidence into decision-ready recommendations.
- Provide constructive analytical challenge to strategies, proposals, and sustainability claims.
- Build relationships with leading researchers, institutions, customers, and industry experts.
- Represent Cisco selectively in research collaborations, industry initiatives, standards organizations, and expert forums.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Degree in engineering, physical or environmental sciences, economics, energy systems, computer science, public policy, or another relevant quantitative or technical discipline.
- Deep expertise across at least two of the following areas: AI, computing and digital infrastructure; energy systems and markets; climate, net zero and environmental impacts.
- Demonstrated external recognition as a subject-matter expert.
- Significant experience conducting quantitative analysis, modelling, scenario development, or strategic research.
- Demonstrated ability to structure ambiguous and complex problems and develop rigorous analytical approaches.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree, PhD, or equivalent advanced analytical experience.
- Deep understanding of the relationship between AI, computing and digital infrastructure, and energy systems, emissions, materials, and other environmental impacts.
- Experience developing or applying models related to electricity demand, energy systems, data centers, digital technologies, greenhouse gas emissions, net-zero pathways, lifecycle impacts, or material demand.