Global Environmental & Sustainability Lead

Job Introduction

Are you environmentally and sustainability conscious and want to drive this forward using innovation? A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an established Global Environmental & Sustainability Lead. 

The Environmental and Sustainability Lead shall execute upon the approved GSK Global Sustainability Program, make proactive recommendations to improve efficiencies and eliminate waste through alignment with GSK Corporate Sustainability Guidelines and expectations, monitor and provide Sodexo with industry and regulatory trends applicable to our services in the Regions. 

Taking into account standards, by respecting SOWs and delivering SLAs. Relies on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Performs a variety of complex tasks. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.

This is a work at home opportunity, UK based (would consider US) working across time zones UK, EMEA, NORAM.

Role Responsibility

• Demonstrate management commitment to support and provide a rigorous sustainability conservation program.  

• Develop, secure appropriate approvals, implement and manage a program for sustainability initiatives and staff awareness.   

• Provide monthly analysis of initiative progress and utility data, recommending actions where appropriate, secure appropriate approvals and implement solutions. 

• Develop energy, water, and waste & recycling initiative projects consistent with GSK goals including detailed scopes of work, benefit realisation and return on investment analysis. 

• Address or support ongoing requests for collecting and providing various utility data and information within the regions for initiatives including surveys and the annual Carbon Disclosure Project. 

• Develop communications to business units and employees on ways to improve sustainability. 

• Identify programs available through utility companies and government agencies for rebates and other benefits to reduce operating and capital costs.  

• Introduce opportunities for improvements to Sustainability that is consistent with GSK’s Corporate Sustainability Guidelines for Carbon reduction goals and report as required. 

• In alignment with compliance requirements ensure GSK complies with all local, regional, national and supra-national (e.g., European Union) waste, water, energy and emissions related regulations including but not limited to audits, reporting and allowance or credit purchases. 

• Participate in the development of the account strategy in line with current and emerging client needs. 

• Gather monthly updates from each region, working with the country / cluster leads to ensure they include all relevant sustainability activity from the month.  

• Chair a monthly Sustainability Working Group meeting to share best practices and make recommendations with teams across the account. 

• Ensure the Annual Sustainability Plan document and tracker are kept up to date, logging any changes / mitigations. 

• Prepare monthly and quarterly sustainability reports, and present to COE & Ops.  .  

• Support with coordinating account wide initiatives, tracking progress / status of implementations 

• Earth Hour, and Earth Day Annual Campaign Planning 

• Creation and Deployment of Annual Sustainability Plan (targets, projects, implementation) 

• Completion of Annual Sustainability Tracker (tracking, reporting) 

• Support client sustainability team meetings, collaborating with other T1 suppliers 

• Lead CSR account roadmap activity to include social responsibility initiatives 

• LEED- Review of estate to comply with the GSK Global Design Standards, for all buildings over 75K square feet to be certified LEED Gold 

• Support the creation of Service Guidelines to ensure sustainability benchmark standards and best practice recommendations for new sites 

The Ideal Candidate

Essential 

• Experience of international Environmental and Sustainability management, People management & Suppliers and contracts management and negotiation. Excellent client service orientation. 

• Positive and proactive approach towards work, both receiving requests and proposing solutions. 

• Motivated and innovative . Ability to rapidly adjust his/her work scheme and priorities to be able to adjust to a very dynamic work environment. 

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written in English.  

• Bachelor degree qualification in a relevant subject 

• Requires min. 3 years of experience in the field or in a related area. 

• Excellent influencing and facilitation skills. 

• Customer and quality focused; highly effective at building and improving customer relationships. 

• Excellent organisational and time management skills, ability to plan and deliver objectives within an agreed timeframe. 

• Challenges the status quo, innovative, ‘can do and improve’ and ‘hands on’ attitude when required. 

• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment. 

• Excellent Microsoft and IT platform skills (extensive Project, Excel, PowerPoint are a minimum). 

Desirable 

• Recognized  qualification in a relevant subject. 

• Able to work both by itself, and as part of a bigger team. Promote team work. 

• Problem solving ability.  

• Ability to generate reports 

Other Relevant Information 

• Regular travel and overnight stays will be required.  

• To relieve and assist in other establishments in certain circumstances. 

• To attend meetings and training courses as requested. 

• This job description is intended to give the post holder an appreciation of the role envisaged and the range of duties and responsibilities to be undertaken.  It does not attempt to detail every activity.  Specific tasks and objectives will be agreed with the post holder at regular intervals. The post holder will be required at all times to perform any other reasonable task, as requested by the Line Manager in order to meet the operational needs of the business 

Package Description

circa £75,000 per annum + bonus + benefits

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process