Group Sustainability Programme Lead (Building Materials And Construction)
Gaia talent
- Cavan
new offer (03/05/2024)
job description
This is a sustainability programmes management role within the sustainability function responsible for management of the company's Group level sustainability programmes – Planet Passionate, Supply Chain Sustainability and Circular Economy.
In addition to annual bonuses and competitive salaries, they offer a range of benefits including, pension, health insurance, smart savings platform, hybrid work,, continuous professional development, and global travel options.
Responsibilities – General
- Management of direct reports, appraisals, and career development plans
- Horizon scanning to identify sector and market best practices related to sustainability and sustainability in construction products.
- Monitoring emerging trends and working closely with local teams to identify issues and opportunities.
- Support the Group non-financial reporting obligations including data collection and development of internal and external reports.
- Effective allocation of Group sustainability budget assign to support Group level sustainability programmes to maximise progression
- Quarterly and Monthly reporting on programme and updates to different levels of management teams
- CSRD reporting preparation and annual reporting for Resource Use &
Circular economy and support of other topics Supporting development of group level sustainability targets and working with team to conduct required analysis
Responsibilities – Programmes
Planet Passionate – Own operations
- Overall management responsibility for the co-ordination of the Planet Passionate programme including meetings, roadmaps, quarterly progress tracking, working groups, and technical guidance documents
- Internal and external stakeholder management
- Acquisition Planet Passionate onboarding
- Development and management of programme tracking and analysis processes Supply chain sustainability - Upstream
- Overall management responsibilities for the co-ordination of the Group level supply chain sustainability programme including target tracking (Planet Passionate and science-based targets), supplier engagement and visits.
- Management scope 3 data collection and reporting requirements
- Management of scope 3 audit process annually
- Group Ecovadis rating renewal
- Development of technical documents related to strategy and decarbonisation roadmaps
- Coordination of regular working groups with group and other relevant procurement functions.
Circular Economy – Downstream/Product sustainability
- Overall management responsibility for the Group level circular economy working group and target development and tracking
- Alignment of Circular economy programme and targets to CSRD requirements
- Identify key circularity challenges for the company and work with the divisions to accelerate projects and initiatives required in line with regulatory and market requirements
- Development of the Group level circular economy position for external communications
- Development of technical documents including Environmental claims guidance,
- Product and Group level circular economy
- Key external stakeholder relations management – EMF etc.
- Coordination and group level working groups with relevant stakeholders
Requirements
Education
- Undergraduate or Master's degree with a in related disciple – Architecture, Engineering, Construction, Science and/or Sustainability.
Knowledge &
Skills
- Minimum 4 years of relevant experience in consulting, corporate, industrial or other environment. Global experience is desired.
- Strong working knowledge across a broad range of sustainability related topics including life cycle assessment, embodied carbon, GHG emissions, circular economy and non-financial reporting
- Working knowledge of construction process, building regulations and building environmental assessment methods.
- High level proficiency in use of Microsoft Office programs—comfortable with complicated Excel formulas, pivot tables, power bi etc., plus ability to present information succinctly and visually in PowerPoint.
- Working knowledge of Non-financial reporting requirements (CSRD) and international sustainable development policy including but not limited to the Paris Climate Agreement and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.