Company: Alaska Airlines The Team: Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, marketing, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you. Role Summary: The Sustainability and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Manager is a subject matter expert and leader in the design, development, and execution of Alaska Air Group’s (AAG) SAF program. This includes sourcing and securing offtake agreements for SAF, maximizing financial support from key stakeholders, and informing strategic partnerships and investments. As an individual contributor working cross-functionally, this role designs and implements innovative solutions to enable SAF usage as a key pillar of AAG’s 5-part path to net zero. This role is critical in engaging the company’s key sustainability stakeholders (corporate customers, guests, employees, investors, thought leaders, and the public), driving the company’s cross-functional work toward our 2040 ambition, ensuring AAG’s leadership presence, and building business processes and products to achieve net positive business value. Key Duties: In concert with the MD of Sustainability, develop and implement a multi-year strategy for Alaska’s SAF program and stakeholder engagement.Lead three cross-functional workstreams to support the development of the SAF market and ensure advantaged access to supply for Alaska Airlines: (1) securing offtake agreements for SAF, (2) maximizing financial support from stakeholders, and (3) strategic partnerships and investments.Lead corporate engagement sales strategy to drive revenue growth through strategic partnerships and investments in SAF. This includes developing strategies and resources in concert with the corporate sales team as the SAF SME to deliver annual revenue targets.Own and execute guest-facing SAF engagement initiatives to increase awareness and adoption among individual consumers. This includes managing programs such as SAF in the booking path and our partnership with CHOOOSE.Collaborate with marketing and brand teams to develop language, guidelines, and strategies for the usage and deployment of SAF, investments in new technologies, and progress towards 2040 net zero.Drive AAG’s perspective on policy at the local, federal, and international levels for feedstock and SAF production. Inform regulatory requirements in markets with existing or developing SAF laws, and engage policy experts and lawmakers in collaboration with AAG government affairs.Create a vision and plan for how this new technology and market should be managed and navigated by Alaska, including SAF purchasing and maintaining a responsible and profitable business model.Analyze and create highly advanced, complex solutions for SAF, such as new customer products, partnerships, and multi-party capital raises to back net-new SAF production in the Pacific NW with advantaged access for Alaska, and other win-win partnerships to support the company’s future.Build and maintain deep, productive relationships with Financial Planning & Analysis, Supply Chain, and IT to create and maintain an auditable SAF supply procurement, revenue, and emissions accounting systems with updates as needed to conform with emerging international standards.Establish Alaska’s thought leadership in SAF. In partnership with Investor Relations, Communications and media relations, Marketing, Government Affairs, and Environmental Affairs, represent ESG & Sustainability in producing memos, analysis, research, and other tools to understand and interpret the impact of various ESG developments on Alaska, and to help communicate Alaska’s point of view.Manage, support and drive cross-divisional initiatives for sustainability goals around carbon, waste, and ecosystems. Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills: Required7 years of experience in program or project management in SAF, Corporate Sustainability, or related fields.Bachelor’s degree in related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.Technical subject matter expertise in SAF, or the demonstrated ability to develop quickly. This role will be supported with external resource support as needed.Experience leading programs or projects to completion and making meaningful business recommendations that affect both costs and revenue.Experience working in sustainability, ESG, or related field.Ability to alternate between strategic, tactical, and operational perspectives while working on projects and to quickly determine long, medium, and short-term impacts of proposed solutions.Self-driven and independent.Ability to self-motivate and drive one’s own creative work is imperative.Experience communicating to all levels of the organization, including the ability to produce executive-level presentations and communication materials.Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (e.g., Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook).Minimum age of 18.High School Diploma or equivalent is required.Must be authorized to work in the U.S.PreferredMaster’s degree with a focus in a relevant field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.Demonstrated success with ESG-related management systems. Job-Specific Leadership Expectations: Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.Create a culture where all employees feel safe and they belong. Salary Range: $120,400 - $180,600 / year Total Target Compensation Range (incl. bonus & equity): $132,440 - $198,660 Salary Details: Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Horizon employees. Alaska/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range. Total Rewards: Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines & Horizon AirComprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefitsGenerous 401k match programQuarterly and annual bonus plansGenerous holiday and paid time offFor more information about Alaska/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits. FLSA Status: Exempt Employment Type: Full-Time Regular/Temporary: Regular Requisition Type: Management Location: Seattle - Corporate HQ Regulatory Information: Equal Employment Opportunity Policy StatementIt is the policy of Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.To implement this policy, we will:(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) RegulationsAlaska Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn. Featured Job: 0 A:: Y - T1 L:: #LI-B