Sustainability Reporting Manager
Key Skills
Job Description
Your role
Coordinate collection of environmental, energy, water, and related sustainability data from sub-regional and global teams.
- Identify anomalies, inconsistencies, methodological weaknesses, or non-compliance with internal policies.
- Investigate discrepancies directly with data owners and ensure timely correction and prevention of recurrence.
- Maintain clear audit trails and documentation supporting internal controls and external assurance.
- Provide analytical insights on sustainability KPIs, including energy intensity, carbon footprint, water use, waste reduction, and other material metrics.
- Recommend and implement improvements to data collection methodologies and reporting systems.
- Translate corporate sustainability and energy objectives into practical operational guidance for site teams.
- Support implementation of energy-efficiency programs, water and emissions reduction efforts.
Track and communicate progress against regional and global sustainability targets.
- Communicate global sustainability KPI measurement requirements in consideration of local infrastructure and regulatory differences.
- Contribute to awareness sessions and workshops to strengthen the sustainability culture within Operations.
- Monitor evolving sustainability reporting standards, regulations, and industry best practices.
- Assess regulatory impacts and recommend updates to reporting strategies and processes.
- Provide clear, practical explanations of complex regulatory and data requirements to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Proactively communicate new or changing reporting requirements to relevant internal teams.
- Contribute to internal global policy development process in alignment with international standards.
Act as a key liaison between Sustainability and regional Operations, Engineering, Compliance, and other business functions.
- Prepare concise reports and presentations for senior leadership summarizing performance, risks, and improvement actions.
What you’ll need
- Bachelor’s degree in energy management, engineering, environmental science, sustainability, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in sustainability implementation, energy reporting, environmental data management, or related analytical roles.
- Experience in data centers, industrial, utilities, or critical infrastructure environments.
- Experience managing third-party data quality assurance processes preferred.
- Experience working with major sustainability reporting frameworks and regulatory disclosures.
- Experience handling large, complex datasets, including imperfect or incomplete data.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are beneficial.
Core Responsibilities
The role focuses on coordinating the collection and validation of global sustainability data to ensure accuracy in external reporting and regulatory disclosures. It involves translating corporate sustainability objectives into operational guidance and providing analytical insights on KPIs like carbon footprint and energy intensity.
Requirements
Requires a Bachelor's degree in sustainability, engineering, or a related field with over 5 years of experience in environmental data management. Experience in critical infrastructure environments and familiarity with major sustainability reporting frameworks are essential.
About Digital Realty
Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company's global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data "meeting place". Digital Realty enables its customers with the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 30+ countries on six continents.