ESG Regulatory and Strategy Lead Europe

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U.S. Bank Europe (USBE) has approved it’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategy focused on compliance and management of ESG Risks.

The ESG Europe Office team is responsible for delivering in three critical areas: (1) Europe-Wide ESG strategy, transformation, and integration (2) reporting and disclosures (3) external partnerships and engagement.

The ESG Europe Office is part of USBE’s CAO Function (exact reporting lines TBD) and interacts closely with the U.S. Bank Sustainability Office.

The ESG Lead helps deliver on U.S. Bank Europe’s ESG strategy through partnerships with key business lines and outside experts, developing and implementing programs to achieve key business outcomes. These outcomes include: staying on par with our peers, reducing ESG risk, identifying business opportunities, driving awareness of ESG criteria and potential impact and opportunities for U.S. Bank Europe, ensuring thoughtful and consistent communication around ESG efforts, and encouraging employee engagement.

These outcomes are achieved through participation in and leading key working groups and other business line touch point opportunities, participation in external peer group opportunities, and staying up to date on industry and internal developments that may impact U.S. Bank Europe’s ESG strategy. The ESG Lead will also serve as a key subject matter expert regarding U.S. Bank Europe’s ESG strategy, pulling together work across the company into one cohesive story and supporting communications around these efforts.

• Executes medium and large-scale, programs and projects to integrate ESG criteria into the company's business strategy and operations.
• Maintains, leads and directs the European ESG Forum including data, KPIs, KRIs and agenda topics.
• Maintains a pragmatic and forward looking view on regulatory compliance across our jurisdictions, including proportionality and maturity over time.
• Manage and/or participate in aspects of reporting and disclosure, data assurance processes, employee engagement and internal status reporting.
• Maintain strong relationships within the industry, government and NGOs and other external stakeholders to understand how the overall landscape is evolving, and how USBE’s strategy should evolve with it.
• Identifying gaps and opportunities in USBE’s ESG strategy, Providing insights and recommendations for improvement.
• Stay abreast of the current risk environment and work with business line risk partners to evaluate risk and assess current policy.
• Stays informed on the changing landscape of ESG including emerging trends, stakeholder expectations, and rating/ranking criteria.
• Constantly benchmark and monitor…