Analyst, Sustainability Expert

Role Overview

• Provide strategic oversight and accountability for CHS’s enterprise wide Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, ensuring accuracy, audit readiness, and alignment with corporate sustainability strategy.
• Oversee continuous enhancement of the enterprise measurement system (Watershed), setting long term data governance standards and ensuring integration with evolving regulatory and voluntary reporting frameworks.
• Lead cross business initiatives to optimize data quality, streamline reporting processes, and strengthen assurance protocols across all CHS facilities.
• Develop and implement enterprise training programs for leaders and facility teams to strengthen organizational capability in GHG measurement, reporting, and compliance.
• Serve as the primary liaison to internal and external auditors, ensuring timely resolution of issues and driving continuous improvement in audit performance.
• Monitor global policy developments (e.g., GHG Protocol updates) and proactively direct the adaptation of CHS’s methodologies to maintain leadership in credible, compliant reporting.
• Lead the development and governance of CHS’s long‑term decarbonization roadmap for major operational assets, including refineries and processing facilities.
• Partner with senior operations and finance leaders to prioritize and advance capital investments that improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and ROI expectations.
• Direct the design and delivery of enterprise dashboards and analytics tracking energy intensity and other environmental KPIs to support performance management and disclosure readiness.
• Collaborate with Corporate Communications, Government Affairs, and ESG Reporting teams to ensure consistency, credibility, and strategic alignment in CHS’s internal and external communications on decarbonization progress.
• Provide expertise and guidance for low‑carbon market programs and certification pathways, guiding CHS’s strategy for sustainable supply chain offerings and compliance with emerging assurance standards.
• Work closely with Supply Chain, Commercial, and Trade Execution teams to evaluate, prioritize, and operationalize low‑carbon market opportunities, including certifications, attribute tracking, and traceability systems.
• Drive the strategy and process for EUDR compliant US export flows to Europe.
• Support the development of governance frameworks and cross‑functional processes that ensure data integrity, program compliance, and commercial viability across CHS’s low‑carbon initiatives.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED
• 7+ years of experience in sustainability, environmental management, agriculture, energy, project management, or related field
• Bachelor's degree highly preferred in finance, accounting, engineering, IT, environmental science, or related fields
• Expertise in GHG Protocol, emission factors, materiality, base-year updates, and inventory assurance.
• Strong understanding of refinery/process energy systems and their emissions impacts.
• Working knowledge of ag supply chains and markets.
• Familiarity with SEC climate rules, CSRD/ESRS, EPA GHG reporting, CDP, SASB/ISSB, and TCFD-style expectations.
• Experience designing and enforcing data controls; leads multi-site data collection.
• Advanced Excel/PowerQuery or BI tools; experience with sustainability platforms.
• Experience preparing evidence, sampling, and remediation for limited/reasonable assurance.
• Prior experience building cases for energy-efficiency and low-carbon investments.
• Familiar with low-carbon certification and chain-of-custody models.
• Experience developing practical traceability and data-integrity processes for compliance.
• Expertise monitoring evolving climate policy and translating changes into guidance.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• wellness programs
• life insurance
• health and dependent care spending accounts
• paid time off
• 401(k)
• pension
• profit sharing
• short
• and long-term disability
• tuition reimbursement
• adoption assistance