Corporate Services Sustainability Director

We're seeking someone to join our team as Corporate Services (CS) Sustainability Director to contribute to our sustainability strategic and tactical work.

In the Corporate Services division, we empower our businesses by creating collaborative workplace solutions and commercial services that enhance the employee and client experience, while optimizing the value of our sourcing and third-party lifecycle to enable the Firm to do-and-win business.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.

At Morgan Stanley Alpharetta, we support the breadth of the Firm’s global business and functions from Wealth Management and Institutional Securities to Technology and Operations, Finance and Human Resources divisions. With the 2020 acquisition of E-TRADE, which has its largest footprint in Alpharetta, Morgan Stanley super-charged its Wealth Management business to deliver a first-class experience for the digitally inclined investor and trader. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. There’s ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

What you'll do in the role:
- Support development and execution of CS sustainability strategy, including environmental resource use, and long term operational sustainability planning
- Translate sustainability data, regulatory developments, and internal performance insights into strategic narratives, decision frameworks, and recommendations for leadership
- Lead and support project management for sustainability initiatives, including defining scopes, coordinating deliverables, tracking progress, and escalating risks or dependencies
- Facilitate team meetings, working sessions, and cross functional working groups, helping drive alignment, document decisions, and maintain momentum across stakeholders
- Partner closely with sustainability data, reporting, and technology leads to ensure strategic priorities are informed by high quality data and operational realities
- Drive sustainability engagement across the Corporate Services division and partner with the Global Sustainability Office on Firm sustainability engagement
- Support preparation of materials for senior leadership, committees, and broader stakeholder forums, including strategy updates, roadmaps, and progress reporting
- Build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships across Corporate Services and the Firm (e.g., Global Sustainability Office, Finance, Real Estate, Technology, Procurement), acting as the connector between strategy and execution,

What you'll bring to the role:
- Excellent communication skills, including experience preparing materials for leadership, facilitating discussions, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholder groups
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear strategic insights and recommendations
- Demonstrated project and program management capabilities, with experience coordinating multi workstream initiatives and managing timelines, dependencies, and deliverables
- Familiarity with evolving climate regulations, standards, and voluntary frameworks, with experience supporting strategy development in a regulatory or disclosure driven environment
- Comfort working with sustainability data and analytical tools (including advanced Excel), and the ability to partner effectively with data and technology specialists
- At least 5 years of experience in sustainability, strategy, engineering, data science, consulting, or related roles, with demonstrated exposure to enterprise scale initiatives

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM MORGAN STANLEY:

At Morgan Stanley, we raise, manage and allocate capital for our clients – helping them reach their goals. We do it in a way that’s differentiated – and we’ve done that for 90 years. Our values - putting clients first, doing the right thing, leading with exceptional ideas, committing to diversity and inclusion, and giving back - aren’t just beliefs, they guide the decisions we make every day to do what's best for our clients, communities and more than 80,000 employees in 1,200 offices across 42 countries. At Morgan Stanley, you’ll find an opportunity to work alongside the best and the brightest, in an environment where you are supported and empowered. Our teams are relentless collaborators and creative thinkers, fueled by their diverse backgrounds and experiences. We are proud to support our employees and their families at every point along their work-life journey, offering some of the most attractive and comprehensive employee benefits and perks in the industry. There’s also ample opportunity to move about the business for those who show passion and grit in their work.

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Morgan Stanley's goal is to build and maintain a workforce that is diverse in experience and background but uniform in reflecting our standards of integrity and excellence. Consequently, our recruiting efforts reflect our desire to attract and retain the best and brightest from all talent pools. We want to be the first choice for prospective employees.

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