Sustainability Specialist - Environmental Job id : 34986
Colt provides network, voice and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.
Sustainability Specialist (Ethics & Human Rights)
Set up : Hybrid and Flexible
This is a fixed term opportunity for 18 months.
The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) team supports and facilitates the development of a robust ESG strategy, as well as ensuring that our sustainability activities go beyond just compliance.
As a global leader in digital infrastructure, we are taking ownership of reducing our environmental impact as well as strengthening our social and governance responsibilities. This role will support the business in delivering the ESG strategy and vision (in particular concerning environmental sustainability, circularity, sustainable procurement activity and sustainability governance for product development); Align with Product, Commercial, Operations, Procurement and other internal teams to strengthen ESG understanding and embed Sustainability-by-Design.
Links with the ESG Executive and the Commercial team to define and drive internal and external ESG communications requirements, promoting the sustainability value proposition.
Communicate with internal colleagues of all levels on alignment with sustainability standards as well as CSRD and EU taxonomy requirements.
Give advice and support to colleagues on all sustainability matters (but in particular product, circularity and procurement-related), recommend and develop policies that drive a greater understanding of sustainability to embed across the business.
Work alongside procurement colleagues to support supplier sustainability engagement ensuring alignment with ESG strategy, goals as well as CSRD EU Taxonomy alignment.
Prior working experience and leadership in the Sustainability field with emphasis on environmental sustainability, circularity, sustainable product design – IT, Telco, Engineering background a clear advantage.
Excellent communication skills and English business level; we want to bring the sustainability narrative to life.
Collaborative approach to sometimes complex sustainability solutions.
Strong understanding of the sustainability landscape with the ability to explain in a meaningful way to various stakeholder levels.
Prior experience researching and writing reports and briefing notes accessible to a wide and varied audience.
Leadership of workstreams across a global organisation.
Sustainability qualification is desirable; Previous experience in global function and business would be advantageous – matrixed environment.
A bachelor's or master's degree in business, human resources, or related field.
In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Benefit package that includes life insurance, private health insurance and pension plan. Access to a virtual business school for on-going learning.
~ International environment with employees from more than 35 different nationalities.
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