TJX Companies

At TJX Companies, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You’ll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritizes your development. Whether you’re working in our four global Home Offices, Distribution Centers or Retail Stores—TJ Maxx, Marshalls, Homegoods, Homesense, Sierra, Winners, and TK Maxx, you’ll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX family—a Fortune 100 company and the world’s leading off-price retailer.

Job Description:

The Assistant Vice President, Sustainability (Regulatory Compliance & Reporting) role is responsible for collaborating with stakeholders across functions, divisions and geographies to ensure TJX is developing and sustaining models to manage and execute against operational regulations and disclosures relating to sustainability. This role will prioritize direct management and execution of legislation that has enterprise-level impact, multi-divisional impact (where a common approach may benefit), North American origins, and other geographic origins, as needed and with local division alignment. Serves as a technical advisor and critical connector between regulatory reporting and operational partners, as well as Finance, Legal, Global Communications, and other teams as required. Maintains collaborative relationships across TJX, leverage partnering with divisional / local stakeholders as relevant and CR&S leadership to ensure local inputs are reflected, and impacts are supported as required.

Requires a strong ability to navigate the regulatory and compliance landscape and requirements, working with Legal to interpret regulations and develop practical business plans and processes. Able to clearly communicate complex regulatory requirements to a variety of stakeholders and audiences at all levels. Brings a strong curiosity and acuity for understanding the nuances of operating within the off-price model and can effectively recommend and promote changes where necessary to meet regulatory requirements.

Experienced in collaborating with multiple functions to deliver complex, cross-functional projects. Supports and prepares mandatory and voluntary disclosures relating to a variety of sustainability topics, bringing subject matter expertise on the Company’s internal programs, policies and initiatives. Helps in the drafting of content where appropriate covering the thematic areas such as governance, strategy, risk and opportunity management and participates in disclosure and reporting committees.

Supports and coordinates the strategy and execution of the company’s materiality and risk assessment processes by collaborating with regional and divisional stakeholders Compliance, Legal, Finance, and other teams as required.

Major Areas of Responsibility:

CR&S Disclosure Delivery

Works with internal stakeholders including Finance, Global Communications and Legal to support the creation and ongoing management of a multi-year strategic roadmap for delivering disclosures, partnering across divisions as required.
Exhibits deep knowledge of TJX’s core program strategies and metrics needed to support compliance with various mandatory reporting requirements.
Works with internal stakeholders on drafting content, to promote consistency across disclosures
Partners and collaborates with TJX leaders in Finance, Legal across North America and with other divisions as required, on ongoing regulatory horizon scanning and monitoring across jurisdictions, interpreting changes, assessing gaps and translating requirements into practical business actions, where relevant

Operationalizing regulations & change management

Translate sustainability-themed regulations into scalable processes, ownership models, and cross-functional workplans; socialize requirements through governance forums and working groups.
Drive implementation through partnership with internal stakeholder groups around mobilization and change management to embed requirements into operations.

Risk, IROs & materiality (including double materiality)

Lead cross functional teams managing environmental risk assessment processes across relevant global business functions, ensuring alignment across geographies and integration with existing risk processes.
Help oversee internal controls and governance for global climate risk assessments and support periodic updates and reports to internal stakeholders.
Develop robust processes to systematically gather data and relevant information necessary for quantifying risk. These processes should facilitate the collection, validation, and analysis of data from various internal and external sources.

Team Leadership

Manages direct reports and team who will contribute to the delivery of CR&S disclosures, operating regulations and other projects as required
Collaborates with CR&S leadership to prioritize projects and identify capability needs (resources, tools, technology, etc.)

Key Experience:

10+ years of Compliance experience
Bachelor's degree required in relevant areas such as law, social science, or business administration; Masters' preferred or similar experience
Proven expertise within ESG and human rights compliance & regulations compliance & ethics, supply chain & sustainability
Demonstrated success in program development, project & change management and driving cross-functional collaboration; ability to quickly adjust plans to meet regulatory changes or business needs
Advanced communication and presentation skills
Strong analytical skills from mapping to analysis of risks and design of practical solutions & programs
Experience working for a global brand and/or in global teams; highly proficient in both spoken and written English is a requirement
A hands-on, pragmatic personality passionate about problem-solving and dedicated to delivering outcomes

Benefits include Associate discount; 401(k) match; medical/dental/vision; HSA; health care FSA; life insurance; short/long-term disability; paid holidays/vacation /sick/bereavement/parental leave; EAP; incentive programs for management; auto/home insurance discounts; tuition reimbursement; scholarship program; adoption/surrogacy assistance; smoking cessation; child care/cell phone discounts; pet/legal insurance; credit union; referral bonuses. All benefits are subject to applicable plan or program terms (including eligibility terms) and may change from time to time. Contact your TJX representative for more information.

In addition to our open door policy and supportive work environment, we also strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package. TJX considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, marital or military status, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. TJX also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local law.

Address:

770 Cochituate Rd

Location:

USA Home Office Framingham MA 770 Cochituate RdThis position has a starting salary range of $146,800.00 to $190,900.00 per year. Actual starting pay is determined by a number of factors, including relevant skills, qualifications, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual incentive as well as long-term incentives.

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