Environmental Sustainability Manager

Bimplus; Doncaster; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company Car or £6,000 Car Allowance

Family Private Medical Insurance

Hybrid working

Job summary

Ganymede is recruiting an Environmental & Sustainability Pre-Contract Manager to embed sustainability into bids from the start, shaping tender submissions for major Rail and Civil projects in the UK.

The role operates within the Work Winning function, collaborating with estimators, bid managers, and technical specialists to align environmental commitments with winning strategies. The position offers hybrid working and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• Experience in construction, rail or major infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of environmental legislation and sustainability principles.
• Background in embedding sustainability into bids from the outset.

Responsibilities

• Embed sustainability into bids from the very start and shape winning tender submissions for Rail and Civil projects.
• Collaborate with estimators, bid managers, and technical specialists to develop sustainability strategies.
• Influence projects before they're won and work within the Work Winning function.

Skills

Environmental strategy

Bid strategy

Sustainability principles

Professional memberships

Education

Environmental or Sustainability degree

Job description

£50,000 – £60,000 (Potential Flexibility) + Company Car or £6,000 Car Allowance + Family Private Healthcare

Are you seeking a role that is more focused on the Environmental and Sustainability elements of projects, from the very start?

The Opportunity

Our client has developed a new role to bring on a Environmental & Sustainability Pre-ContractManager, a strategic role sitting within their Work Winning function.

This is not a traditional environmental compliance role focused on project delivery. Instead, you'll be responsible for ensuring sustainability is embedded into bids from the very beginning, helping shape winning tender submissions for major Rail and Civil Engineering projects across the UK.

The role has been created because the Head of Environment has been carrying out this function herself, consistently producing exceptional tender submissions and achieving maximum evaluation scores. Due to continued business growth, they now want someone dedicated to this area who can build the function and make it their own.

This is a hybrid role, typically 3 days in the office / 2 days working from home, subject to workload and business requirements

Why this role is different

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who enjoys the commercial side of environmental management.

Rather than spending your time on site managing compliance, you'll become a key member of large bid teams, influencing projects before they're won.

You'll work closely with estimators, bid managers, operational teams and technical specialists to develop sustainability strategies that genuinely add value and help secure work.

Every bid is different.

Success comes from understanding each client individually, interpreting what they're asking for, identifying what environmental commitments will score highly, forecasting the environmental resource required and ensuring those costs are incorporated correctly into the tender.

It's a role that combines environmental expertise with commercial thinking.

In return the organisation will support you with accreditations and there are future opportunities to progress.

The Ideal Background

Our client is keen to attract someone from a construction, infrastructure or engineering environment where they already understand how major projects are delivered.

This could include experience within:

• Rail
• Civil Engineering
• Construction
• Highways
• Energy
• Utilities
• Infrastructure

The role would particularly suit someone looking to move away from a project or site-based environmental position into a more strategic, corporate function where they can influence projects nationally rather than delivering one project at a time.

Previous bid experience would be advantageous but isn't essential if you have the right environmental background and commercial mindset.

What They're Looking For

Ideally you'll have:

• Environmental or Sustainability degree (or equivalent)
• Experience within construction, rail or major infrastructure
• Strong understanding of environmental legislation and sustainability principles
• Professional memberships such as IEMA / ISEP Practitioner, Full IMEA / ISEP Membership or Chartered Environmentalist are desirable but not essential.

Package

• Salary c£60,000 per annum
• Company Car or £6,000 Car Allowance
• Hybrid working
• Family Private Medical Insurance
• Competitive Pension (3% Employee / 5% Employer)
• 38-hour working week
• 25 Days Annual Leave plus Bank Holiday + Birthday Leave
• Life Assurance
• Training & Development

Why choose this role?

This is a rare opportunity to move into one of the most commercially influential environmental roles within a major contractor.

If you're currently an Environmental Advisor, Environmental Manager or Sustainability Manager working on projects and enjoy the strategic side of the role more than day-to-day compliance, this offers a chance to shape work before it's even won. You'll work on bids across multiple sectors, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and help secure nationally significant infrastructure projects.

It's a newly created role with real visibility, where you'll have the opportunity to define the function, introduce new ideas, and become the go-to sustainability expert within the work-winning team

Ganymede is committed to creating a diverse workforce and is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of age, disability, gender, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation