Manager, Sustainability & Climate Partnerships Lead

Deloitte LLP; Isle of Man, Daliburgh, City of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consultancy firm in the UK is seeking a Sustainability Partnerships Lead to enhance its social impact agenda by developing strategic partnerships focused on climate and sustainability. The role involves working collaboratively to identify collaboration opportunities that drive impactful change and sustainable business growth. Ideal candidates will have strong skills in stakeholder management, relationship building, and a deep understanding of climate change. Hybrid work options are available.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Continuous personal development

Supportive work culture

Qualifications

• Proven experience in partnership development and sustainability strategy ideally in large organizations.
• Strong knowledge in climate and sustainability policy, stakeholder ecosystems.
• Exceptional relationship-building, influencing, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and lead Deloitte's partnerships strategy across climate and sustainability themes.
• Identify and manage high-impact partnerships with SMEs and relevant industry coalitions.
• Support the activation of European Value Chain Mitigation initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Commercial acumen

Job description

Aberdeen, Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Guernsey, Ipswich, Isle of Man, Jersey, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Nottingham, Port Talbot, Reading, Southampton, St Albans

Business Line

Enabling Functions

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

02-Dec-2025

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Connect to your Industry

The Social Impact team brings together colleagues across Responsible Business, Government & Public Sector Social Value and the people engagement and partnership elements of our Sustainability agenda to drive a new social impact agenda at Deloitte. One that’s more coordinated and joined up. One that reflects the needs of our people, our clients and our society. One that makes a difference and is at the heart of everything we do.

This role sits within the Partnerships pillar of the Social Impact Team and will play a pivotal role in shaping Deloitte’s external collaboration strategy to accelerate the transition to a sustainable, equitable, and low‑carbon economy. You’ll build strategic partnerships that engage people, unlock commercial growth, and catalise system‑wide change across industries and sectors. It will also work closely with, and as an extended part of, the firm’s Sustainability team.

The role requires strong / in depth understanding of climate change, excellent stakeholder management and relationship building skills and an ability to be execute the strategy, delivering tangible outcomes. This role will suit a strategic connector and systems thinker – someone who thrives at the intersection of commercial strategy, sustainability impact and cross‑sector collaboration.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, whereverwe are in the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,foster inclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

The Sustainability & Climate partnerships lead is an integral part of our social impact partnerships approach, reflecting the firm’s deep commitment to sustainability and climate leadership. This multifaceted role is central to how we engage externally - developing and managing strong, strategic relationships with climate focussed partners across business, government and civil society.

The role identifies opportunities for collaboration that drive measurable impact, accelerates the firm’s sustainability ambitions, and helps position Deloitte as a trusted convener and catalyst for system‑wide change.

The ideal candidate will be motivated by the opportunity to drive real-world change through partnership, comfortable engaging senior stakeholders across business, government, and civil society, and skilled at turning shared purpose into tangible outcomes. They’ll bring both relationship‑building finesse and commercial acumen, able to spot collaboration opportunities that deliver value for clients, partners, and the planet. A natural influencer and storyteller, they’ll enjoy mobilising people around a vision and embedding sustainability into the culture and work of the firm.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and lead Deloitte’s partnerships strategy across climate and sustainability themes — centred around the firm’s material impact areas of Technology, Travel & Transportation and Buildings and guided by the firm’s Global and European net‑zero transition plan.
• Identify, select and manage high‑impact partnerships with Small, Medium sized entities (SMEs)s and other relevant industry initiatives/broader coalitions where there is strong alignment to the firm’s sustainability priorities and the UK Social Value model climate focused Model Award Criteria (MAC’s). In time consider collaborations with clients where relevant and additive.
• Work with the business to align partnership activities to support Deloitte’s commercial climate and sustainability objectives and wider business priorities.
• Support the activation and success of our European Value Chain Mitigation (VCM) and Beyond Value Chain Mitigation (BVCM) initiatives, investments and relationships.

Commercial Outcomes & Growth

• Translate partnership opportunities into tangible business value — through establishing a strong range of Social Value climate offerings (particularly where we have partnership gaps) which can be integrated into public sector bids.
• Work closely with industry and service line leaders to integrate sustainability partnership activity into core client solutions.
• Monitor and measure commercial and social impact KPIs, demonstrating how S&C partnerships deliver shared value.
• Work with internal (and external stakeholders) to mobilise and deliver pro bono investment focused on scaling identified innovative solutions in the areas of tech hardware and Gen AI.

Driving System Change

• Participate in and/or convene cross‑sector alliances that address systemic challenges such as decarbonisation, climate resilience, and inclusive economic transition.
• Represent Deloitte in forums to influence practice and drive market transformation; For example, where there are internal and external speaker opportunities to showcase impact connected to our climate partner collaborations.
• Identify innovative solutions and support them to scale; including through inclusion in Deloitte’s own supply chain and/or match‑making with our clients.

People Engagement & Culture Change

• Telling the story of our S&C partnerships and their impact: build pride in what’s been collectively achieved and inspire our clients and people on what more could be done together. This could be in case studies through our Annual Review, video diaries etc
• Work with the Comms & people engagement pillar within the Social Impact team to empower client teams to bring sustainability into their everyday work and client conversations.
• Where possible leverage and drive S&C partnership initiatives that inspire Deloitte’s people to act on climate and sustainability — from awareness campaigns to employee‑led innovation challenges (working with the Comms & people engagement pillar)

Other

• Stakeholder Management : Collaborate effectively with internal stakeholders including UK Sustainability, NSE Sustainability, Client relationship and Brand/Marketing teams.
• Bringing Subject Matter Expertise : Use your knowledge of the sustainability landscape to provide strategic input to major public sector bid opportunities to strengthen Deloitte’s market positioning and impact.
• Social Value : Provide support to Social Value engagement leads on GPS client projects where there are SV commitments with climate partners (as per the central partnerships document) where projects are in delivery phase. Where there are identified gaps in climate partnership offering, in relation to requirements of the SV model, conduct a market scan to seek out suitable partners and establish SV relationship/offering which can be integrated into bids.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Are you passionate about making an impact on the world? Able to inspire others with your enthusiasm? A team player who is willing to learn and stretch your development beyond where you thought was possible?

The successful candidate will have:

• Proven experience in partnership development and sustainability strategy (ideally within a large organisation or consultancy).
• Strong understanding of climate and sustainability policy, stakeholder ecosystems, and business transformation levers.
• Exceptional relationship‑building, influencing, and communication skills — able to connect diverse partners around shared purpose and outcomes.
• Influencing skills which enable us to garner support for our sustainability efforts from a range of stakeholders.
• Knowledge in sustainability issues, particular the transition to Net Zero.
• Commercial acumen, with experience turning sustainability ambition into measurable business and societal value.
• Opportunity spotter – able to identify and leverage collaboration opportunities for maximum value.
• Strategic systems thinker with a collaborative mindset
• Proven ability to develop and execute communications strategies and plans.
• Ability to take complex messages and technical information and use that to drive engagement and buy‑in from the business area overseeing the partnership.
• Strong project management skills, including planning, execution, monitoring, and evaluation.
• Skills in prioritisation and re‑planning to adapt to unexpected requests.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far‑reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

“It’s such an inspiring place to work; everyone you talk to is working on something interesting. There are always so many exciting things to get involved with that it is a challenge to prioritise where to spend your time. Everyone always says, “it’s the people,” and that’s true.” – Deloitte Employee

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world‑class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose‑driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers.