Environmental Consultant

Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) Lead

Location: Leeds

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000

Reports To: Senior Director Commercial Operations

D7 Recruitment is proud to be partnering with a distinguished Health and Safety consultancy in the search for a highly skilled Environmental and Social Governance (ESG) Lead. This exciting opportunity focuses on the dynamic sector of Pharmaceuticals and logistics.

General Overview

As the ESG you will be expected to develop short and medium term Environment, Social and Governance strategies within a pharmaceutical manufacturing and logistics environment. Initially, you will be asked to generate a short term roadmap (6-9 month) and during this time working with the team to develop a long term strategy (Apply online only)).

This is a great opportunity to have an impact on an organisation that wants to make a difference.

Main Accountabilities.

• Liaise activity between all UK & Eire local cluster sites.


• Keep abreast of latest carbon & Net Zero related trends & pending requirements.


• Quantify, track & report scope 1, 2 & defined 3 greenhouse gas emissions


• Develop Net Zero transition plan & communicate progress to the ESG Steerco


• Attend EHS council & management review meetings to report environmental & carbon emission performance


• Provide a quarterly progress update to the Leadership team


• Co-ordinate work to achieve packaging reporting compliance & seek opportunities to reduce financial liability


• Co-manage Ridings Point Distribution centre energy consumption, identifying reduction opportunities


• Liaise with Social & Governance pillar Leads


• Create and maintain a strategy tracker to show key current areas of focus by pillar & progress to date


• Proactively provide target and action updates to Communications for generating reports to wider business

Qualifications, Experience, Knowledge, Skill and Specific Competencies Required

Experience

• Proven knowledge of carbon emissions and Net Zero transition plans.


• Good knowledge and awareness of upcoming trends and sector or government reporting requirements, i.e., if Transition Plans become mandatory

Qualifications:

Environmental or Sustainability degree, including modules relating to carbon emissions and strategy

Skills

• Analytical (data rational)


• Presentation


• Report writing


• Communications


• Influencing

If this exciting opportunity is of interest and you would like to be part of an organisation committed to delivering change; contact the D7 team.