ESG Commercial Support

Telefonica is committed to making a positive impact on the environment and the society by acting responsibly along our entire value chain and providing solutions for today´s societal challenges.  The sustainability team is passionate about making this happen.  Are you?  Would you like your daily work life to reflect this passion? We are looking for a smart, hard-working, and a go-getting individual to join the team.

General Description

The open position is within the ESG Customer and Business Development team, which is one of the 4 areas reporting into Telefonica’s Chief Sustainability Officer. This team focuses on promoting the development of even more sustainable/inclusive products and services to support Telefonica´s sustainability value proposition.

Main functions

The ESG – Social Inclusion position will be responsible for developing and implementing strategies that promote social inclusion within our company and across our global operations. This role will involve collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that our products and services reflect our commitment to sustainability in general and social inclusion in particular:

• Strategy Development and Implementation: Contribute to the company’s social inclusion strategy in alignment with its overall ESG framework. Identify and prioritize key social issues and opportunities for the company to address.
• Program Management: Lead the design and execution of projects aimed at promoting social inclusion within the company. Contribute to social pillar of the company´s due diligence process.
• Internal Coordination: Work closely with corporate functions as well as country operations to align strategy and initiatives in view of new regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Reporting and Data Collection: Collect data within the company to report relevant KPIs. Write and conceptualize sections of Telefónica’s Integrated Report, ensuring compliance with the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and relevant ESRS requirements.
• ESG Ratings and Rankings: Provide feedback on sustainability topics to relevant ESG ratings and rankings (e.g., DJSI, Sustainalytics etc.).

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences, Business, Legal, Engineering, or related fields.
• MBA or Master in Sustainability would be highly valued.

Languages

• Native-level fluency in Spanish and English.
• Desirable: German and/or Portuguese.

Experience

• 2 years of work experience in sustainability, either in a company or consulting organization.
• Understanding of:
  • social sustainability topics in general and human rights/social inclusion in particular,
  • complex nature of a multinational company’s value chain, especially but not limited to its supply chain, and its potential impacts, risk and opportunities on sustainability matters &
  • regulatory environment (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, ESRS standards, Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive etc.) and standards (UN Guiding Principles, OECD Guidelines etc.).

Skills

• Passion on ESG issues and challenges to work on making a positive contribution to society and the environment.
• Excellent project management skills with attention to detail and comfort dealing with ambiguity and working with people from other regions and culture.
• Analytical skills including ability to identify gaps and opportunities for new projects and programs.
• Ability to executing projects in a complex organizational environment, and to energizing others and build working relationships to get things done.
• Great communication and writing skills - ability to translate ideas into clear, high impact messages and capacity to field difficult questions.

If you join Telefónica

You join almost 100 years of history, you join a team of 106 nationalities present in more tan 35 countries. You join a team that works to connect people wherever they are. We are leading the digital revolution with the enthusiasm of the first day in all our businesses, creating the best digital ecosystem for our clients: network, IoT, cloud, security, innovation etc. Here, at Telefónica you count with everything you need to be the best you. We need people like you that wants to take this challenge of creating the Telefónica of tomorrow.

Telefonica is committed to the new working ways. Under our proposition “Disconnect to Reconnect” we have applied the Digital Disconnection.

You join a company whose activity is governed by its code of ethics, Our Responsible Business Principles. We are looking for people who identify with them, who help us make decisions based on integrity, commitment and transparency and who are committed to ethical management, promoting fairer and more sustainable social and environmental development.

#WeAreInclusive

We strongly believe diverse and inclusive teams become more innovative and they achieve improved results. Telefonica aims to promote and guarantee a place for everyone, just the way we are: gender, age range, sexual orientation and/or identity, culture, creed, disability or any other personal condition.