Head of Sustainability

Aspect Resources

Role: Head of Sustainability

Location: UK Wide, Any Office as base office with travel for team meetings in London and Liverpool on average 2 days a month in London or Liverpool. Base office attendance will vary depending on meetings. Travel on an ad hoc basis is also required, with potentially over nights stays if the candidate is travelling for an event.

IR35: Inside

Rate: £500/day (Umbrella) MAX

Duration: Until 29/3/24 initially

Essential skills

• Ability to write recommendation reports to suit varying audiences (technical and non-technical).
• Evidence of delivering innovation and engaging positively with continuous change and improvement.
• Previous experience consulting or advising organisations on sustainability transformation.
• Networking and client liaison including ownership of internal and external client relationship development.

Desirable Skills

• Experience of climate change, energy policy and the commercial aspects of these fields will be advantageous for this role, but not essential.
• Experience of Environmental Management Systems (ISO 14001) and Energy Management Systems (ISO 50001).

We are seeking deep sustainability expertise to support the organisation and our customers to realise their Carbon Net Zero ambitions. This new team has a varied role responsible for sustainability policy, advising public sector customers on key themes and programmes, identifying new products and services for our agreements, and being known for influencing the Public Sector Sustainability response at senior levels across all sectors.

The Sustainability Team will have enterprise wide influence and reach, acting as a strategic enabler to realising the business plan and engaging with customers and suppliers. Given the crosscutting nature of the role, you will need to be flexible and able to work closely with teams across the organisation and the wider Government, forming virtual teams and working across boundaries. As part of this team, we are looking for a focus on Transport recognising the growing demand for sustainable transport solutions and their associated requirements across Government. Typically, this will include amongst others fleet and mobility solutions, public transport, EV charging and logistics and warehousing. As the team develops, the exact responsibilities of the role may change over time.

Key Accountabilities:

• Be a sustainability expert, a key influencer in the sustainability and carbon net zero space while maintaining key relationships with external stakeholders such as BEIS to develop our knowledge and understanding of the market as well as to promote our strategy.
• Maintain knowledge of funding and policy issues related to sustainability by maintaining insight and links to CNZ related policy, legislation and funding.
• Develop a service level offer for the provision of advice and guidance to customers based on Customer needs.
• Be the link between customer requirements and carbon reduction across the built environment supply chain.
• Support the development of customer sustainability plans and strategies bringing in support from members of the commercial team.
• Supporting business development activity related to CNZ agreements.
• Provide advice and guidance both internally and externally on:
• CNZ strategy development
• Commercial strategies to deliver CNZ aspirations
• Develop Procurement plans that make best use of commercial agreements.
• Own the supplier PPN 06/21 compliance and support agenda.
• Establish and own the ongoing development of the Carbon Reduction Plan and Annual Report commitments.
• Establish a mechanism for encouraging suppliers to develop more innovative and faster paced solutions to accelerate CNZ and identify gaps in our portfolio.
• Prepare information on sustainability for stakeholders including writing reports, questionnaires, webpages, letters, social media and communications on behalf of management.
• Drive the wider sustainability project as necessary and maintain our sustainability procedures and policies.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources