Sustainability Manager, £40,000, Sheffield

Are you passionate about contributing towards global sustainability and achieving net zero? Are you looking to join a revolutionary, innovative and motivated company where you can have a positive influence and make a substantial impact?

Purpose

Rubicon’s client are highly motivated towards achieving their goal of net zero by 2030. As an innovative, solutions-based business, they are looking for a Sustainability Manager to take responsibility for implementing, monitoring and measuring the success of sustainability strategies. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop and shape initiatives in line with company objectives to roll out across all business departments globally.

Background & Benefits

Rubicon’s client are a B Corp certified business that have made a revolutionary impact in several industries through their original innovation and manufacture of wire suspension products and solutions.

The business is highly successful, with sustainability being one of the core components in their five-year strategy.

Acknowledging how precious each and every employee’s contributions are to the business, this 100% Employee Owned company is committed to making positive impacts not only globally, but in their own offices too, by offering employees:

  • Employee Ownership share scheme
  • Extensive onboarding and ongoing training and support opportunities to continue personal development
  • Generous holiday entitlement
  • Life assurance policies
  • Private individual health care plan
  • Permanent health insurance scheme
  • Paycare health plan
  • Non-contributory 15% pension scheme
  • Enhanced family policy
  • Gym membership

As the next Sustainability Manager, you’ll collaborate with various teams within the business to ensure successful embedding of sustainability strategies across the global organisation. Further responsibilities will include:

  • Ensuring business compliance with relevant sustainability standards and regulations including SECR, ESOS and EPR
  • Developing carbon reduction plans and targets, driving actions and recording data to produce reflective reports when needed
  • Managing resources such as energy, waste and materials to reduce overall environmental impact
  • Preparing sustainability information and establishing sustainability KPIs and a performance dashboard to track data for annual accounts
  • Developing relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to increase awareness of sustainability and ESG activity
  • Leading delivery of our environmental commitments, including our net zero targets and emissions reduction roadmap

To be the next Sustainability Manager, you’ll have:

  • Sustainability or environmental management qualification at degree level or equivalent
  • Extensive knowledge of climate change and the reduction of carbon footprint within scope 1 , 2 and 3
  • Experience in sustainability management and strategy development
  • Strong interpersonal skills including communication, relationship building, negotiation, decision making and influencing people
  • Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel, Teams, Word, Powerpoint)

Interested?

If your passion and expertise aligns with the requirements for this exciting Sustainability Manager opportunity, apply today with an up-to-date CV or call Grace Jeyes at Rubicon for more information.