CHS Inc.

Analyst, Sustainability Expert

CHS Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Inver Grove Heights • Minnesota • United States

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Salary

💰 $100,200 - $167,400 per year

Job Level

SeniorLead

About the role

  • Provide strategic oversight and accountability for CHS’s enterprise wide Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory, ensuring accuracy, audit readiness, and alignment with corporate sustainability strategy.
  • Oversee continuous enhancement of the enterprise measurement system (Watershed), setting long term data governance standards and ensuring integration with evolving regulatory and voluntary reporting frameworks.
  • Lead cross business initiatives to optimize data quality, streamline reporting processes, and strengthen assurance protocols across all CHS facilities.
  • Develop and implement enterprise training programs for leaders and facility teams to strengthen organizational capability in GHG measurement, reporting, and compliance.
  • Serve as the primary liaison to internal and external auditors, ensuring timely resolution of issues and driving continuous improvement in audit performance.
  • Monitor global policy developments (e.g., GHG Protocol updates) and proactively direct the adaptation of CHS’s methodologies to maintain leadership in credible, compliant reporting.
  • Lead the development and governance of CHS’s long‑term decarbonization roadmap for major operational assets, including refineries and processing facilities.
  • Partner with senior operations and finance leaders to prioritize and advance capital investments that improve energy efficiency and reduce emissions, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy and ROI expectations.
  • Direct the design and delivery of enterprise dashboards and analytics tracking energy intensity and other environmental KPIs to support performance management and disclosure readiness.
  • Collaborate with Corporate Communications, Government Affairs, and ESG Reporting teams to ensure consistency, credibility, and strategic alignment in CHS’s internal and external communications on decarbonization progress.
  • Provide expertise and guidance for low‑carbon market programs and certification pathways, guiding CHS’s strategy for sustainable supply chain offerings and compliance with emerging assurance standards.
  • Work closely with Supply Chain, Commercial, and Trade Execution teams to evaluate, prioritize, and operationalize low‑carbon market opportunities, including certifications, attribute tracking, and traceability systems.
  • Drive the strategy and process for EUDR compliant US export flows to Europe.
  • Support the development of governance frameworks and cross‑functional processes that ensure data integrity, program compliance, and commercial viability across CHS’s low‑carbon initiatives.

Requirements

  • High School Diploma or GED
  • 7+ years of experience in sustainability, environmental management, agriculture, energy, project management, or related field
  • Bachelor's degree highly preferred in finance, accounting, engineering, IT, environmental science, or related fields
  • Expertise in GHG Protocol, emission factors, materiality, base-year updates, and inventory assurance.
  • Strong understanding of refinery/process energy systems and their emissions impacts.
  • Working knowledge of ag supply chains and markets.
  • Familiarity with SEC climate rules, CSRD/ESRS, EPA GHG reporting, CDP, SASB/ISSB, and TCFD-style expectations.
  • Experience designing and enforcing data controls; leads multi-site data collection.
  • Advanced Excel/PowerQuery or BI tools; experience with sustainability platforms.
  • Experience preparing evidence, sampling, and remediation for limited/reasonable assurance.
  • Prior experience building cases for energy-efficiency and low-carbon investments.
  • Familiar with low-carbon certification and chain-of-custody models.
  • Experience developing practical traceability and data-integrity processes for compliance.
  • Expertise monitoring evolving climate policy and translating changes into guidance.
Benefits
  • medical
  • dental
  • vision
  • wellness programs
  • life insurance
  • health and dependent care spending accounts
  • paid time off
  • 401(k)
  • pension
  • profit sharing
  • short- and long-term disability
  • tuition reimbursement
  • adoption assistance
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Hard Skills & Tools
GHG Protocolemission factorsdata governanceenergy efficiencylow-carbon certificationtraceability systemsdata controlssustainability platformsExcelPowerQuery
Soft Skills
strategic oversightcross-business collaborationorganizational capabilityaudit performance improvementcommunicationleadershipproblem resolutiontraining program developmentcontinuous improvementdata integrity