Senior Corporate Sustainability Manager

Trainline plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Dental insurance

Work from abroad policy

2-for-1 share purchase plans

EV Scheme

Extra festive time off

Family-friendly benefits

Job summary

Trainline plc is seeking a Senior Corporate Sustainability Manager to drive the emissions reduction strategy, lead the rollout of Watershed, and act as an ambassador for sustainability across the business.

You will partner with data owners and senior leaders to deliver supplier engagement, reduce scope 3 emissions, and shape disclosures while advancing sustainability in a fast-paced, tech-led environment. Hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• Experience driving a corporate sustainability agenda forward.
• Hands-on in implementing science-based target reductions or similar programs.
• Strong relationship-building and influence across senior leadership.
• Confident presenter of progress and priorities to diverse audiences.
• Curious mindset for new tools, including AI.
• Experience leading change or transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Own the ongoing delivery of the emissions reduction strategy with supplier engagement and scope 3 focus.
• Lead rollout and adoption of Watershed data platform ahead of financial year reporting.
• Represent corporate sustainability to internal and external audiences and build engagement.
• Build strong relationships with teams owning supplier relationships.
• Support frameworks for sustainability-linked disclosure and implement them.
• Identify and lead workstreams to improve ESG ratings over time.
• Help measure and report on emerging areas like emissions impact of AI.

Skills

Sustainability strategy

Stakeholder engagement

Change management

GHG data platforms

Tools

Watershed

Job description

About us

At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.

Great journeys start with Trainline

We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels.

Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet.

We’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel.

Introducing the Trainline Sustainability Team

At Trainline, environmental sustainability sits at the heart of what we do. Through our technology and data, we make rail travel easier and help people choose more sustainable ways to get around. Rail already offers a far greener alternative to flying or driving, and we believe we have a genuine role to play in supporting the wider industry, businesses and governments to hit their own emissions targets. We were one of the first tech companies to have science-based net zero targets officially validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), committing to net zero by 2040 and a 55% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030. This role sits within our sustainability team, working closely with our Company Secretary and Director of Sustainability. You'll take the lead on embedding our emissions data platform, driving supplier engagement on our net-zero journey, and acting as an ambassador for corporate sustainability both inside and outside the business. You'll collaborate closely with teams across Trainline who own supplier relationships and data, as well as with senior stakeholders, to keep momentum going on one of our most important long-term commitments.

In this role as the Senior Corporate Sustainability Manager, you will...

• Own the ongoing delivery of our SBTi-validated emissions reduction strategy, with a strong focus on supplier engagement and reducing scope 3 emissions

• Lead the continued rollout and adoption of Watershed, our GHG data platform, ensuring it is fully embedded ahead of the financial year reporting cycle

• Be the ambassador for corporate sustainability, confidently presenting our progress and priorities to audiences across the business and building genuine engagement with the topic

• Build strong working relationships with the teams who own supplier relationships

• Support the development of frameworks for sustainability-linked disclosure requirements and help put them into action

• Identify and lead workstreams that improve our ESG ratings over time

• Help shape how we measure and report on emerging areas, such as the emissions impact of AI, where established methodologies don't yet exist

We'd love to hear from you if you have...

• Experience driving a corporate sustainability agenda forward, ideally within a progressive or tech-led organisation

• A solid background implementing science-based target reduction plans or similar programmes, ideally with hands-on experience of a GHG data platform such as Watershed

• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders across a business, from data owners to senior leadership

• Confidence presenting to and engaging audiences, both internally and externally, on sustainability progress and priorities

• A curious, open-minded approach to new tools and ways of working, including AI.

• Experience leading change or transformation initiatives while balancing long-term goals with short-term delivery

More information:

Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.

We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!

We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.

Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe everyday, in everything we do:

• Think Big - We're building the future of rail

• Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey

• Travel Together - We're one team

• Do Good - We make a positive impact

We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.

Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!