Senior Responsible Business Manager - Social lead

A leading property development business is looking to hire a new Senior Responsible Business Manager - Social Lead. In this newly created role, reporting into the Head of Responsible Business, you will play a key role in supporting the business to develop and deliver their Responsible Business programme.

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You will provide sustainability expertise across the business, including environmental requirements and with a particular strength towards social sustainability, sustainable procurement practices, and creating sustainable places and peacemaking, working with all business units and ensuring delivery of the Responsible Business Ambition. Ideally, you will have a background from the construction or property development sectors, logistics or home building.

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Responsibilities:

• Take a lead in producing the Responsible Business communications including developing content with the Head of Communications, and produce sustainability reports, accounts ensuring accurate information; Create content for external comms and social media, raising profile and reputation

• Create and input to guides, codes, briefs on sustainability

• Identify training needs, and develop and deliver training programs

• Support the collation and analysis of business data, ensuring systems are effective and supporting the BUs in their metrics

• Provide sustainability input to projects to support the BUs achieve ambitions

• Support the development of strategy and project planning

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Requirements:

• Experienced social sustainability professional, ideally with a background in the property development sector

• Experience in sustainable sourcing and procurement practices, and practical application in supplier selection and assessment

• An experienced sustainability communicator, having previously produced sustainability reports, ARAs, submissions for EPRA, investor packs

• Practical experience of creating social impact through business activities and creating suitable KPIs and metrics

• Excellent communicator able to interact at all levels, and speak with confidence on a wide range of sustainability matters; Innovative approach to sustainability communications and awareness raising, and internal engagement strategies

• Excellent IT skills; excel, powerpoint

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If you're looking to take the next step in your career and join a high-profile business in a newly created sustainability team, please apply today. If you have any further questions about the role, please contact Kate O'Rourke via kate.orourke@acre.com.