Sustainability Manager
10 days ago
London
This is an opportunity to join a fast-growing, purpose-led organisation with a clear ambition to lead on sustainability within its sector. The business is committed to making a positive impact across environmental performance, people, and responsible sourcing. The Sustainability Partner will play a central role in shaping and delivering sustainability strategy, working closely with senior leadership and teams across the organisation to embed sustainable practices into day-to-day operations and long-term planning. Key responsibilities • Partner with the senior leadership team to deliver sustainability objectives and drive organisational change, • Manage and maintain sustainability accreditations, ensuring compliance and continuous improvement against recognised standards, • Lead and coordinate sustainability projects across multiple business functions, • Define and track sustainability metrics, monitoring performance across areas such as energy use, waste management, and water consumption, • Assess environmental impacts and identify practical opportunities to reduce resource use and emissions, • Prepare sustainability reports for internal stakeholders, including senior leadership and board-level audiences, • Act as a trusted sustainability advisor to teams across the business, supporting the integration of sustainability into ways of working, • Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders, suppliers, and external partners, • Stay informed on sustainability legislation, trends, and best practice, identifying commercially viable improvements, • Deliver presentations, workshops, and engagement sessions to support understanding and adoption of sustainability initiatives About you • Degree qualified in sustainability, environmental science, business, or a related discipline, • Experience in a sustainability-focused role, ideally within food, hospitality, retail, or another consumer-facing environment, • Strong understanding of sustainability frameworks, environmental principles, and reporting requirements, • Proven ability to manage projects, priorities, and deadlines effectively, • Confident communicator with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels, • Analytical and data-led, with experience using insight to support decision-making, • Proactive, curious, and solutions-focused, with a commercial mindset What’s on offer • Performance-related bonus of up to 15%, • Employee dining perk offering complimentary meals, • 30 days annual leave, excluding Bank Holidays, • Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme, • MediCash healthcare benefits, • Additional benefits and wellbeing perks London based, hybrid 3 days in the office 2 days WFH.