Sustainability Manager
This role will support the delivery of Shawbrook’s sustainability strategy by working closely with the bank's Head of Sustainability within the Chief of Staff Office.
This is a cross-functional role which will play a critical role in implementing, measuring, and reporting on Shawbrook’s sustainability strategy, including collaborating closely with key internal and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the embedding and execution of the Group’s sustainability strategy and agreed strategic priorities – Empowering our People, Strengthening Society and Securing a Sustainable Future, working with both internal and external stakeholders. This includes monitoring external developments, industry standards, and regulations that may affect the strategy, evaluating impact and suggesting amendments as appropriate.
- Manage processes for delivering our sustainability-related reporting and disclosures in line with external frameworks (including UK SRS). This includes data collection and verification for all publicly disclosed metrics and targets.
- Own the management of internal governance, committees, and working groups related to sustainability. This includes preparation of papers, minutes, and actions, including follow-ups with stakeholders.
- Manage the in-house emissions measurement process and analysis, working closely with Finance and Risk function, to ensure accurate and robust outputs.
- Manage all charitable and volunteering-related activities and processes. This includes working with our strategic charity partner.
Key Attributes
- Proven experience in sustainability, ideally within financial services
- Flexibility, resilience, being self-sufficient and able to work well under pressure with often changing priorities.
- Excellent analytical and technical skills
- Self-starter and able to work independently in a fast-moving environment with colleagues at all levels.
- Good communications skills- high standard of written communications and presentation production, and attention to detail
- Strong organisational and project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects efficiently
- Strong communication, project management and analytical skills and be able to create compelling presentations with attention to detail.
Your Wellbeing - We take your health and well-being very seriously by providing a range of benefits to give you and your family peace of mind. These include:
- Market leading family friendly policies such as access to our Maternity, Adoption and Paternity policies from Day 1 of your employment
- Free access to Headspace, a mindfulness & meditation digital health app
- Free access to Peppy digital health app that offers personalised support through fertility treatment becoming a parent or menopause
- EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) - Offering you support on a wide range of subjects including financial concerns, mental wellbeing and more general queries around family, work, housing, and health
- Cycle to work scheme
- Discounts on gym membership
- Contributory pension scheme & death in service
Your Lifestyle - It’s important you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. We provide benefits to support you when at work and when you’re enjoying your leisure time.
- Minimum of 27 days holiday per year
- Option to buy or sell holiday days through our flexi-holiday scheme
- Discounts on gym membership nationwide
- Access to discounts on a range of high street and online brands
- Community support and charitable giving
Your Contribution - We’re focused on rewarding those that go the extra mile in helping us achieve our goals.
- Participation in our annual discretionary bonus scheme designed to reward your contribution to our success
- Proudly Shawbrook recognition scheme focused on recognising our role models and thanking our colleagues for a job well done