Environment Social & Governance Senior Manager

About the Role

SAB is seeking an Environment, Social & Governance Senior Manager to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role is central to supporting the planning and execution of SAB’s Environmental Social and Governance initiatives and strategies, with a primary focus on leading ESG strategy implementation across the bank.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the planning and execution of SAB’s Environmental Social and Governance initiatives and strategies.
• Lead and support ESG strategy implementation across the bank, including strategy refresh/reviews, tracking, and reporting to the ESG Steering Committee.
• Provide necessary support to key departments for executing the ESG Strategy and reporting progress of deliverables to senior management and relevant committees.
• Collaborate and build relationships across internal businesses and functions to ensure alignment with SAB’s strategy and implementation requirements.
• Lead the development and execution of a robust governance framework for the ESG strategy office.
• Support the ESG Steering Committee, ensuring proper governance for managing committee affairs such as minutes, reports, terms of reference, and annual reviews.
• Provide ongoing progress updates related to bank-wide ESG initiative and strategy deliverables to the Board, executive committees, and other senior-level forums.
• Manage and consistently improve control, audit, and compliance-related activities for the ESG team.
• Work with the division’s business management team to ensure the ESG office meets all bank-wide requirements.
• Support the broader ESG Office in delivering its objectives as needed.
• Manage external relationships with industry bodies, government entities, working groups, and think tanks.
• Build, cultivate, and maintain strong relationships with key external stakeholders, identifying and monitoring issues and campaigns, assessing and reporting reputation risk for SAB, and developing individualized engagement plans and strategies in partnership with Communications.
• Play a supporting role in the development of new sustainability-aligned products and propositions, and participate in product governance forums for green lending and climate risk.
• Provide support to the risk function for managing and assessing the bank’s exposure against environmental and sustainability risks, including support in RAS and KRIs development and reporting, as well as ESG Risk projects such as the bank’s portfolio physical risk assessment.
• Lead external assurance activities for the bank’s ESG disclosures, GHG calculations, and Bond Impact Assessment reports.
• Support ESG Data management automation initiatives across the bank to ensure ESG data availability, accuracy, and reliability, including establishing an internal ESG dashboard and deploying an ESG data management tool.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Strong exposure in a sustainability role OR in a role within the financial services industry that incorporates ESG, green, or sustainability considerations (*, ESG Analyst, Responsible Investment Advisor, Environmental Risk Manager).
• Comprehensive knowledge of global sustainable finance frameworks, including CDP, SDGs, Equator Principles, GRI, TCFD, and regional climate policies and priorities.
• Prior experience in analyzing corporate sustainability strategies, policies, management, and performance, with a track record of recommending strategies for improvement, particularly in high-carbon industries.
• Experience in Strategy, Governance, and PMO activities.

Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh.

Application Process

Candidates who meet the specified qualifications are encouraged to apply.