Head of Sustainability

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom Azzurri Group Full time
Job Description

Job title: Head of Sustainability

Reporting to: Group Commercial Director

Location: Paddington, London


The Azzurri Group is one of the UK’s largest and most successful hospitality investment platforms. We operate two leading national Italian full-service brands, Zizzi and ASK Italian and the UK’s leading quick-service Italian, Coco di Mama. Beyond Italian cuisine, we boast renowned Irish fast casual Mexican restaurant brand Boojum, and the franchise rights to leading US Brand Dave’s Hot Chicken.


As a group, our purpose is to build better food businesses that sustain happy, healthy lives. We are in this together, and we’re committed to providing an engaging, honest, and inspiring working environment for you to grow and develop your career.


At Azzurri, we believe that a diverse and inclusive team is essential to building great relationships and connections, and ultimately a better business. If you’re passionate, want to make a positive impact and share our values, we would love to hear from you


The Role in a Nutshell


Working across the Azzurri Group you will drive, deliver and evolve the Group ESG purpose and strategy, providing metrics to measure the impact of our actions. With a background in the ESG space, you will work closely with our external partners and provide research and expertise to ensure that we remain innovative in our thinking and ambitions.


You will build strong relationships with key stakeholders from each brand and central functions and will inspire, motivate and engage the wider Azzurri and brand teams to ensure delivery of our purpose, strategy and initiatives so that we hit our ESG targets. Working with pace, a clear direction and to an agreed plan you will continue the implementation of new policies and ways of working, engaging and communicating with all, to support an accelerated level of delivery across the group.


The Scope


You will lead the Azzurri Group ESG purpose and strategy, providing the roadmap for actions required and the KPI dashboard


  • You will provide research, expertise and new thinking to ensure that our ESG strategy evolves in line with external developments
  • You will source, introduce, lead and work with third party providers to increase Azzurri’s capability in this area
  • Working with key stakeholders you will support the implementation of innovative and effective new and improved working practices and policies that drive our ESG purpose and agenda
  • You will work closely and collaboratively, engaging with our central Azzurri teams, our brand teams and the wider restaurant teams, bringing our ESG purpose and strategy to life
  • You will represent Azzurri on various industry forums and working groups (including the Zero Carbon Forum) engaging and working closely with key internal stakeholders on actions required to meet our commitments
  • You will act as an ambassador for Azzurri ensuring you embody our culture, our ESG purpose behaviours and ways of working



Key Accountabilities


  • Further embed our ESG practices for the Group, supporting the continuous integration of our ESG purpose into everything that we do, across all brands within the Group
  • Become the ESG guardian for the Group, driving the purpose and strategy and oversee its delivery into life – this will include all consumer touch points, including food proposition and supply chain, all employee touch points, including understanding of and engagement with our ESG purpose and strategy
  • Lead the Group ESG Steering Committee providing data, analysis and materials as required to report to our Shareholders
  • Continually evolve a KPI dashboard that demonstrates performance against our strategic objectives, clearly articulating the actions required
  • Support all teams within the business on their ESG initiatives (such as waste management and recycling and energy management and carbon reduction) and to lead cross functional project teams to achieve company-wide progress on key initiatives
  • Support the delivery of external PR and social campaigns which highlight our ESG purpose and strategy, to engage with our customers
  • Provide regular internal communications, working collaboratively with the brands, which drive engagement with and the behaviours that deliver our ESG purpose and strategy, bringing it to life for all


Leadership Competencies


You will be a natural leader, who can:

  • Shape business direction
  • Mobilise the organisation, ability to inspire people at all levels in the organisation
  • Commerciality
  • Make complex decisions
  • Challenge others and champion change
  • Utilise broad networks
  • Build and lead high-performing teams
  • Demonstrate reputation and credibility



What We Can Offer You:

  • Competitive salary
  • Annual bonus - 30% of salary (target pay out)
  • The opportunity to work remotely on an ad hoc basis
  • Employer pension contribution 6%
  • Private Healthcare – Single Cover
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Income Protection & Life Assurance
  • Access to WeCare wellbeing services and online GP for you and your family
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Interest free travel loan
  • Eye care & flu vaccination voucher
  • 50% discount at ASK Italian, Coco di Mama, Zizzi and Dave’s Hot Chicken


Where We Work Together:


We have a great office designed by our own in-house creative team, located in Central London, just opposite the Edgware Road Circle line tube stop. As you might expect from a restaurant company, we have great, free espresso and some top-class baristas among our teams. A free Coco di Mama breakfast is provided every Tuesday and Thursday, and free fruit is available all day every day. We regularly order in pizza, pasta and salads for lunch.


Azzurri Values


Our Azzurri Values are our essential ingredients, our beliefs, how we do things at Azzurri, to bring our Purpose and Vision to life.


Do Better

We are brave and conscientious. We always look for better ways to do things, improving how we work and the results we achieve.


Be Curious

We are inquisitive, we ask the questions, we seek out the answers. Our curiosity means we take rounded and well thought through decisions that make a tangible difference.


Don’t Give Up

We are resilient, tenacious and driven. We keep going whatever challenges we face, meeting the goals we set ourselves.


Be Caring

We listen, we give of our time, we look out for each other. We embrace and value individuality. We create an environment for everyone to thrive, grow and progress.


Be You

We come as we are. We’re warm and welcoming and don’t take ourselves too seriously. We work as one team and we take pride in all that we do. We like nothing better than reveling in our work and enjoying our time together.

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