COMPANY BACKGROUND/CULTURE

For more than a century, FMC Corporation has served the global agricultural, industrial and consumer markets with innovative solutions, applications and quality products.  Ever since our beginning in California in 1883 when John Bean invented the first piston sprayer for agriculture, FMC has continued a proud heritage of pioneering solutions for our customers. Today, we retain the characteristics that have defined our success for nearly 140 years: a passion for technology, a desire to solve societal problems, and a commitment to always look to the future for new challenges and opportunities.

As pure-play agricultural sciences leader, FMC provides innovative solutions to growers around the world with a robust product portfolio fueled by a market-driven discovery and development pipeline in crop protection, plant health, and professional pest and turf management.  At FMC, we recognize that we are a part of an essential community committed to supporting farmers in their critical role of providing food to help nourish people. Now more than ever, farmers need the right crop protection technologies to defend against destructive insects, invasive weeds and the threat of disease.

As a member of the Sustainability and External Affairs a function, this position is responsible for supporting FMC’s global ESG submissions and compliance reporting for U.S. Government Affairs. This role will be as part of a global team supporting ESG and Government Affairs required and voluntary disclosures as well as supporting the office of the CSO as needed with sustainability data analytics and management and researching new and upcoming sustainability related grant opportunities and regulations. This role will report to the Global Director of Sustainability with direct engagement with the Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the preparation of external reports, ESG disclosures, and surveys such as CDP, EcoVadis, S&P Global and others.
• Assist in the collection, analysis and management of data for ESG reporting frameworks and support work processes, policies, etc.
• Collaborate with various teams to address customer inquiries and requests related to ESG topics.
• Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and automation to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of ESG reporting.
• Research local, state, national and international grant funding opportunities regularly and summarize for internal audiences. Conduct analysis of potential decarbonization projects and compare benefits of specific grant programs, and alignment with internal goals and deployment feasibility.
• End-to-end owner of FMC’s reporting for FMC PAC (political action committee) and lobbying engagements, including collecting data, quality assurance and following required procedures mandated by federal regulations (25% of time).
• Manage PAC financials, including monitoring contributions and preparing and sending distributions, and reports for PAC treasurer and governing board.

Education and Skills/Competencies

In addition to demonstrating the FMC core competencies of Accountable, Adaptive, Innovative, Inclusive, Strategic and Leadership, you have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Public/Environmental Policy, Government Affairs, Sustainability or similar.
• Prior experience in compliance reporting in a life science or technology industry a plus.
• High-level of organizational and project management skills and an intense attention to details, deadlines and accuracy is critical in this role.
• Comfortable working with large amounts of data and inflexible deadlines as both a team member and project lead.
• Pleasant but persistent in working with multiple levels of global stakeholders to ensure quality in data submissions and reporting accuracy—including executives.
• Professional demeanor with strong oral and written communication skills and the ability to convey concepts clearly.
• Proficiency in MS business suite, familiarity with SAP, Concur, Ariba, PAC software experience a plus