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MAIN PURPOSE

We are looking for a high profile, passionate and motivated individual to champion and lead the Group’s sustainability agenda. Your role will be a combination of evangelist, marketeer, communicator, and analyst. Working directly with the Group Exec Team you will understand what the business needs to do to deliver a robust, market leading, data driven sustainability strategy which will make our world a better place, our business a great place to work, and will enable us to retain and win business. More importantly, you will be able to deliver it.

The Job

• Understand and effectively articulate national/sector/competitor best practice, and actual performance
• Understand customer requirements plans and aspirations
• Set out what phs’s sustainability strategy should be and obtain enthusiastic support from key stakeholders
• Identify and incorporate best practice where appropriate.
• Manage the development and implementation of the agreed sustainability strategy, including existing and new initiatives
• Develop excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including colleagues, customers, regulators, suppliers, and opinion formers
• Lead and facilitate an internal Sustainability Group and proactively participate in appropriate external forums
• Represent phs and showcase relevant sustainability activities at external events and with customers
• Ensure that relevant legislative and requirements are at least met and where commercially advantageous are exceeded and/or delivered early
• Inform the business of pending/planned changes and initiatives and put forward effective strategic and commercially viable plans to address them
• Actively promote and communicate sustainable practices and be an internal and external advocate for sustainability providing consultancy and subject matter expertise to ensure that these are reflected in business plans and objectives
• Support sustainable product development. Work with product development teams to produce sustainable products reviewing topics such as: innovations, circularity, packaging, and sustainable materials.
• Work collaboratively with our business development team to support with client propositions, including presenting to customers
• Influence PR, Marketing, Communications, Product and Point of Sale materials to highlight our/their sustainability credentials
• Develop sustainability accountability systems and processes and ensure appropriate policy and guidance is in place to support Sustainability activities across the business.
• Ensure that the standards and policies set out for suppliers and the processes to ensure compliance with them meet legal and regulatory requirements and stakeholder expectations.
• Highlight risks and make recommendations, working with procurement so that sustainability is on the agenda.
• Oversee all internal and external reporting requirements including Modern Slavery, to ensure this accurately reflects the business’ working practices and is in line with regulatory requirements.
• Oversee key sustainability initiatives, certification bodies, suppliers, third party brands/ wholesalers, government bodies, external working groups, recyclers, and sustainable material suppliers.
• Develop a set of metrics that the business use to review progress and communicate/present performance data across the organisation.

KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

• 5 years of experience in a sustainability role (in-house or consulting) (External only)
• Good understanding and appreciation for a wide range of sustainability topics
• Proficient in translating technical facts and figures into business language
• Experience in using environmental reporting

PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS

• Passionate and motivated about sustainability, but able to articulate and deliver a plan and get stuff done
• Smart and analytical leader, who can propose flexible alternatives and see ways around issues to achieve results and continuous improvement and development
• Strong team player able to build relationships and work collaboratively. Most of the success will be delivered by people who don’t work for you
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Does the right thing not the easy thing
• Works hard to deliver results personally, and through teams
• Maintains and develops their own expertise, and the skills and knowledge of others
• Works to continually improve sustainability across phs. Identifies and implements ways of doing things better
• Takes responsibility
• Highly numerate and literate, but uses both data and “gut” to drive decision making
• Demonstrates resilience and overcomes setbacks, using all feedback as productive and improvement opportunity
• Able to prioritize workload effectively to ensure core tasks are delivered on time and within Budget