Head of Sustainability

2 months ago


Tamworth, United Kingdom Focus Resourcing Full time

We are looking for a high profile, passionate and motivated individual to champion and lead our clients sustainability agenda.

Your role will be a combination of evangelist, marketeer, communicator, and analyst. Working directly with the Group Exec Team you will understand what the business needs to do to deliver a robust, market leading, data driven sustainability strategy whichwill make our world a better place, our business a great place to work, and will enable the client to retain and win business.

**Duties**:

- Understand and effectively articulate national/sector/competitor best practice, and actual performance
- Understand customer requirements plans and aspirations
- Set out what the sustainability strategy should be and obtain enthusiastic support from key stakeholders
- Manage the development and implementation of the agreed sustainability strategy, including existing and new initiatives
- Develop excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including colleagues, customers, regulators, suppliers, and opinion formers
- Lead and facilitate an internal Sustainability Group and proactively participate in appropriate external forums
- Ensure that relevant legislative and requirements are at least met and where commercially advantageous are exceeded and/or delivered early
- Support sustainable product development.
- Influence PR, Marketing, Communications, Product and Point of Sale materials to highlight our/their sustainability credentials
- Highlight risks and make recommendations, working with procurement so that sustainability is on the agenda.
- Oversee key sustainability initiatives, certification bodies, suppliers, third party brands/ wholesalers, government bodies, external working groups, recyclers, and sustainable material suppliers.
- Develop a set of metrics that the business use to review progress and communicate/present performance data across the organisation.

**Skills**:

- 5 years of experience in a sustainability role
- Good understanding and appreciation for a wide range of sustainability topics
- Proficient in translating technical facts and figures into business language
- Experience in using environmental reporting
- Passionate and motivated about sustainability, but able to articulate and deliver a plan and get stuff done
- Smart and analytical leader, who can propose flexible alternatives and see ways around issues to achieve results and continuous improvement and development
- Strong team player able to build relationships and work collaboratively.
- Demonstrates resilience and overcomes setbacks, using all feedback as productive and improvement opportunity
- Able to prioritize workload effectively to ensure core tasks are delivered on time and within Budget

Salary is around the 75K basic plus 20% bonus plus a generous car allowance plus extensive list of other benefits to include pension, holiday etc.



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