Net Zero Senior Manager

Are you a passionate environmental sustainability professional seeking a change? Are you motivated by the idea of working in an organisation that truly values sustainability and is on a quest to embed net-zero initiatives across its supply chain?

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Acre is working with a leading organisation to strengthen their sustainability team as they begin a long-term transformation.

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In this newly created role, you will accelerate the net-zero agenda by delivering the carbon and GHG emission reduction programme and providing advice and guidance on how to successfully decarbonise their whole business model.

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Your main responsibilities include:

• Develop and manage the strategy in accordance with science-based targets, assessing progress continually and providing updates to the team and wider business on environmental performance.

• Assessing operations, providing technical expertise, and creating solutions where needed. You will build knowledge and capacity internally and externally with key stakeholders.

• Representing the business' net-zero agenda, you enjoy working across business units and being the 'go-to' person for this area of the strategy. Key teams that you will engage with internally include Finance, Product, Operations, Retail and People.

• Ensuring that any environmental reporting requirements are met and that the insight from this reporting is delivered to various stakeholders in a compelling and meaningful way, where data drives positive change.

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As a Senior Net-Zero Manager, you will be working collaboratively across functions and geographies and will be engaging stakeholders at all levels, championing actions against climate change.

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To succeed in this role, you will already have:

• Strong net-zero, environmental sustainability, and engagement experience. You will already know how to deliver reporting protocols, training, GHG protocol, net-zero frameworks, and carbon and GHG reduction roadmaps.

• Robust understanding of reporting frameworks such as TCFD, CSRD, SECR.

• Passion to influence a large-scale transformation project through managing and developing and a motivation to work in a leading sustainable and human-centric company.

• The ability to recognise commercial or financial risks, as well as communicate the commercial benefits of the Net-Zero programme.

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This role is on a hybrid basis, with one day per week in office in London, one day per week in office in Hertfordshire, and the rest from home.

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If you're excited about this newly created opportunity and to work in a market-leading, fast-moving organisation, do not hesitate to get in touch. Please contact Ruth Smith at ruth.smith@acre.com with any questions.