This is an exceptional opportunity to join a well respected, influential and highly successful company. You will have the opportunity to manage and direct the objectives of a range of companies and large international brands, including Sainsbury's, Asda, Marks and Spencer, Carrefour, Coca Cola, Tesco, and many others.
With a large focus on sustainability, our client is looking for a Senior Sustainability/CSR Advisor. You will have the opportunity to work on a range of sustainability and CR issues faced by the food and grocer sector, including carbon footprinting, water, waste, packaging, ethical buying and supply chain.
The ideal candidate will have industry experience with strong analytical skills. You will also possess:
- The ability to provide solutions to challenging issues
- Extensive project management skills
- Adaptability to changing sustainability issues in the sector
- Confidence in working in a challenging and dynamic role
- Strategic and political awareness
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Confident at presenting and representing at conferences
- A good first degree, preferably a Masters in a relevant subject
In return our client offers an excellent working environment with good career opportunities, alongside a range of excellent benefits.
This is an outstanding prospect for a sustainability professional looking to take the next step in their career. If you have the right qualities and are looking for employment in a dynamic ever-growing company working with a range of major brands, please apply. Ref. 1964
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They are looking for an exceptional strategic analyst to assess, report and communicate the financial implications of a wide range of sustainability and CR issues critical to reputation and development.
As the Sustainability Reporting Manager you will be working with this leading department, responsible for managing policies and strategy in this space, and report externally and internally on the bank's direct and indirect sustainability performance. This will be executed through developing, implementing and embedding a global reporting system across all areas and functions.
This is one of the most credible and committed teams in the sector and will place you at the forefront of Sustainability Reporting.
In addition to strong analytical skills, it is equally important that you are able to identify economic opportunities and have the confidence to communicate your findings and figures to various stakeholders including senior management.
Previous management experience is crucial; you will manage a small offshore team and have the ability to implement audit principles and demonstrate best practice reporting standards throughout the whole reporting cycle. The confidence to plan, organise, benchmark and negotiate effectively is essential as is the ability to identify risks linked to data quality, reporting gaps, disclosure and transparency issues.
You must have:
- Experience in and a strong understanding of environmental best practice
- A degree, Masters or equivalent in subjects requiring data analysis
- A degree, Masters or equivalent in Environment, Economics and/or Sustainability related subjects
- A strong understanding of data applications and IT systems knowledge e.g. Credit360
- Ideally, experience of NGO sector / CSR / or asset management / investments
- Permission to work within the UK
Our client is looking for a professional with the passion and drive to make a considerable and tangible impact; bringing to life the figures that reflect and express positive and sustainable change. This is an exceptional opportunity for you to develop your career as you will be directly responsible for helping to shape and grow sustainability best practice within one of the world's leading banks.
To discuss this opportunity further contact Rufus Bullough on 0203 170 5885 or apply here. Ref. 1956
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Established twelve moths ago the company has already been responsible for the delivery of a ground breaking project enabling an energy efficient product to be installed in homes. The project was responsible for a reduction of 390,000 tonnes of Co2.
They are now looking to build on this success, and to do so require an experienced Project Manager to help deliver their newest projects.
With excellent communication & interpersonal skills the successful candidate will not only have experience of the successful delivery of projects but also the ability to consistently meet reporting timelines. Attention to detail and the ability to engage with a diverse set of stakeholders is key for this role and whilst experience of environmental projects would be an advantage it is not a prerequisite.
The position will be on a six month contract initially; however there may be the opportunity to extend this dependent on further projects transpiring.
If you have a passion for the reduction of emissions and a strong proven project management track record this could be the position for you.
For further details please call 0203 170 8030.
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Our client is currently recognised as one of the UK's market leaders in Community Investment; with strong teams in place they are now recruiting for a Community Relations Manager to focus on the South Western Region of the UK.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Contributing to the development of the regional community strategy
- Liaising and developing charity partnerships
- Managing various community events
- Effectively engaging employees in community investment projects
- PR management for focused activity
You must have gained a background in effectively engaging employees in community activity for a minimum of four years. You will have previously worked to develop community partnerships and dealt with media liaison and management. It's important that you are an exceptional communicator and have the ability to promote and manage large scale community activities autonomously.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join one of the leading community teams in the UK!
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The organisation, synonymous for quality and style, requires a compliance officer to manage CSR and IP compliance activity and drive supplier and compliance improvement forward.
You will be someone who enjoys new challenges and is ready to play a fundamental role in an innovative position. Working on new factory assessments, tracking and reporting CSR and IP progress and issues, and communicating with suppliers or subcontractors, this huge international brand requires a confident, forward thinking candidate with broad CSR and compliance experience.
Your responsibilities involve:
- Engaging with and driving supplier compliance improvements in diverse areas (including labour and environmental compliance)
- Collating and enhancing visibility of production methods and locations
- Creating awareness of obligations policy developments within CSR, locally and globally
- Monitoring of production
- Using benchmarking and research skills to identify and communicate risks and challenges that can affect the brand
The ideal candidate will be:
- A qualified Social Auditor (SA8000/similar training qualification)
- Experienced in building social compliance in textile, footwear and/or accessories brands
- Skilled in the manufacturing and supply chain
- Capable of understanding IP and brand value
- Confident with their Japanese and English language skills.
The role would suit a Japanese national, and fluent Japanese is an essential requirement.
This is an excellent opportunity to drive best practice in CSR for a leading brand, and fantastic career development opportunities are available for the right candidate.
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