* Strong industry salary and benefits
* Mon to Fri
* Hybrid role - home based with national travel
A market leading Facilities Management (FM) provider is looking to further develop their central Sustainability team, which empowers public and private sectors around best Sustainability practice across their UK&I buildings.
This role is key, as it ensures the business is empowering/training staff and ensuring technical compliance across the complete Sustainability service offering. This will be applied to their complete UK&I organisation, therefore this is a senior level role working at a strategic level.
In brief, you will ensure the organisation complies with all relevant environmental and social sustainability laws, regulations, and standards for the UK & Ireland (including EU). You will monitor changes in legislation, communicate the impact and requirements to key business stakeholders (e.g., Legal Council, CFO), and update company policies accordingly.
This is a truly exciting position where you will have a unique opportunity to bring Sustainability to the forefront of a world-class employer, working with passionate and talented people from all backgrounds.
Actions will include:
* Develop and deliver training programs to educate employees on sustainability practices and compliance requirements. Accountable for the delivery of all Sustainability training programmes (in-house, via IMEA training centre, and third parties) to ensure the right level of Sustainability knowledge and skills are deployed across the business.
* Conduct audits and assessments to ensure adherence to sustainability standards, monitor compliance to standards, and ensure corrective/remedial action is in place and delivered to address non-conformance.
* Collaborate with internal teams and external partners (suppliers, customers, and regulatory bodies) to promote sustainability initiatives and alignment of sustainability goals through upskilling, training, and knowledge transfer.
* Collaborate with commercial teams on solutions for enterprise sustainability requirements, costings, and delivery methodology at renew, bid, and keep opportunities.
* Act as the UK&I SME for Sustainability Compliance & Technical Standards across projects, product development, and enterprise activity to improve the products we offer, our business capability, and the perception of company sustainability in the industry.
* Identify and leverage opportunities for improvement and best practice across company UK&I in regard to Sustainability, sharing knowledge and innovation where relevant; scale and leverage across accounts.
We need from you:
* An academic background and interest in Sustainability (e.g., BSc/MSc in sustainability, environmental science, Environmental Law, etc.), and membership in relevant professional organizations.
* Strong evidencable knowledge of social and environmental sustainability regulations, standards, and future trends/changes that can be expected.
* Effective communication, training, and engagement skills, able to transfer knowledge via the right delivery methodology at the right level to stakeholders ranging from cleaning/M&E supervisors to C-suite.
* Passionate about environmental and social sustainability, translating technical subject matter to support, empower, and enable others to champion the change required to meet our goals/targets.
* Experience of working in a complex global matrix environment with clients, suppliers, and internal stakeholders with multiple often conflicting priorities. Understanding of facilities management is an advantage.
* Demonstrated evidence to track and report on sustainability metrics and performance indicators to leadership populations and how remedials are being progressed.
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