About This Role

• Be recognised as the lead subject matter expert in the Diligent business on all aspects of environmental sustainability. This will include monitoring and understanding changes to legislative and regulatory compliance, as well as developments in the industry and sector environment practices.
• Own the end-to-end process for emissions reporting to ensure it is accurate, timely and compliant, enabling Diligenta to meet its legal, client and parent reporting obligations, including ESOS and SECR. This includes managing the sign off processes with third parties including external auditors as required.
• Analyse emissions data and identify, prioritise and scope opportunities for emissions reduction in areas including carbon, energy, waste, travel, procurement, water, refurbishment and construction, and biodiversity.
• Set and own the Diligenta emissions reduction plans to bring organisational clarity on how and when Diligenta will reduce emissions, ensuring plans align to commitments and obligations placed on the Diligenta business.
• Develop business cases for progressing initiatives to secure mandate to proceed with identified opportunities and enable effective benefits realisation. Where initiatives have mandate to proceed, act as the business customer of the initiative, to ensure stated business case outcomes are achieved.
• Set, own, maintain and promote a Diligenta environmental policy and supporting plans or practices relating to environmental sustainability.
• Assist with maintaining external accreditations of the ISO Environmental Management System (EMS) by reviewing documents and undertaking internal audits and develop and implement plans to roll this system out across the enterprise.
• Assist the Head of Sustainability in driving forward the Diligenta Sustainability strategy, targets and objectives and in engaging and interacting with clients and TCS as required.

• A Levels and a recognised qualification within environmental/sustainability management
• Degree (preferably in environmental management) – desirable not essential
• Project Management (Prince 2 / APMP / Agile) – desirable not essential
• Previous experience in environmental management role
• Familiar with ESOS, SECR and other relevant regulation
• Experience of emissions reporting / carbon accounting
• Experience of platforms and other technology solutions used for environmental reporting
• Worked with clients, auditors and other third parties
• Sector experience (L&P / Outsourcing)
• Methodical and rigour with data
• Able to operate, own and optimise complex enterprise processes
• Able to produce insights and recommendations from data collected
• Able to work across business functions to achieve results
• Strong report writing skills
• Ability to influence and engage a diverse range of stakeholders

The hiring manager to contact is: Greg Thomas Email: greg.thomas@diligenta.co.uk

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