Climate Change and Sustainability Manager

We’re looking for a strategic, forward-thinking Climate Change and Sustainability Manager to lead our work on climate change adaptation and mitigation, sustainability and natural capital. This is a key role that will shape how we respond to the challenges of climate change, and promote long-term resilience and innovation.

You will act as Thames Water’s subject matter expert – the trusted adviser and ‘go-to’ person for climate change, natural capital and sustainability

What you’ll be doing as a Climate Change and Sustainability Manager

• Lead our Climate Change Strategy - Define and manage the execution of Thames Water’s climate change strategy, approach and risk management, and make sure that this is embedded.
• Build strong internal and external partnerships - Work with internal and external stakeholders to develop, integrate and deliver our commitments.
• Scan the horizon - Monitor emerging policy and best practice to take a long-term view of the external landscape and apply this to our key focus areas.
• Own and update core policies - Including the Sustainability Policy, to make sure they remain relevant and well understood across the business.
• Support key disclosures and reporting - Including the development of material for sustainability reporting, climate-related disclosures, and our enterprise materiality and double-materiality assessments.
• Champion our sustainability themes - Maintain our nine sustainability themes and develop case studies that bring our work to life for internal and external audiences.

Base location: Reading - Hybrid

Working hours: 36 Hours

What you should bring to the role

To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:

• Strong experience delivering in the areas of climate change, sustainability, and natural capital with thorough understanding of techniques, approaches and good practice.
• A collaborative approach and the ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Excellent strategic and analytical skills, with the ability see multiple options, join the dots and turn complex information in to clear, compelling insight.
• Confidence working across a matrix organisation and delivering through others.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• A drive and enthusiasm for continuous improvement.
• A relevant technical or professional qualification such as Degree or equivalent experience.
• Strong IT skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint capability with an ability/ willingness to explore and apply AI.
• Highly numerate with an attention to detail.

Additional skills and experiences would be great to have/bring:

• Strong questioning and probing skills to identify opportunities or discover risks relating to sustainability.
• Understanding of the evolving Sustainability, Climate Change, and Natural Capital landscape.
• Development and delivery of engaging communication approaches both formal and informal.
• Relevant related higher professional qualification or working towards one.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary up to £90,000 per annum, depending on experience
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Car Allowance
• Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Private Medical Health Care
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.