Senior Sustainability Strategist

Radley Yeldar; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking agency as a Senior Strategist, where you'll lead impactful sustainability strategies for a diverse range of clients. This role combines technical expertise with creative storytelling to drive meaningful change across industries. Collaborate with a dynamic team to develop innovative reporting and communication strategies that resonate with stakeholders. If you're passionate about sustainability and eager to make a difference in the world, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Embrace the chance to work with some of the most interesting organizations globally and help shape their sustainability journeys.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Professional development opportunities

Health and wellness programs

Team-building events

Qualifications

• Experience in sustainability strategy and reporting across various sectors.
• Solid knowledge of ESG frameworks and sustainability reporting standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead sustainability reporting and strategy development for clients.
• Support clients in aligning with key sustainability frameworks.

Skills

Sustainability Strategy

Creative Storytelling

Client Management

ESG Frameworks Knowledge

Materiality Assessments

Education

Degree in Environmental Science or related field

Professional certifications in Sustainability

Tools

Reporting Standards (ESRS, GRI, TCFD)

Benchmarking Tools

Job description

Are you our next Senior Strategist? Have you dreamt of working with a global financial services group to figure out how to drive true financial inclusion? Perhaps you’ve got the ideal skillset to help develop the sustainability strategy for an apparel icon. Or you’re the best person to turn to, to demystify the regulations, and craft a compelling report that’ll actually drive change. We’re looking for a Senior Strategist to join our market-leading sustainability offer. Using our magic blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking and creative storytelling, you’ll be responsible for leading our wide-ranging strategy, reporting and communications work with clients as varied as Microsoft and Danone. Ultimately, you’ll play a vital role in achieving RY’s vision… To create a world that believes in business.

With such a fast-growing offer and limitless opportunities to work with some of the world’s most interesting companies, we’re looking to expand our team at a senior level. Joining a team of ambitious, bright and energetic strategists, you’ll be responsible for leading sustainability strategy, reporting, and wider communications work for some of our biggest and most complex clients, collaborating with designers, project managers and strategists across the agency. We don’t just create belief through our client work – it’s just as important within our own agency too.

Sustainability has been a core aspect of our work at RY for over 20 years, and it’s continuing to grow, driven by an incredible team of ambitious strategists, designers and project managers. Working in the sweet spot between technical sustainability and creative communications, we help some of the world’s biggest, most complex and inspiring organisations define their strategy and then tell their story with credibility and flair.

Remit and responsibilities

• Lead on insightful sustainability reporting programmes. You’ll act as a lead strategist on client accounts to deliver insightful, rigorous and engaging sustainability reporting across a range of channels. Balancing technical knowledge with creative flair and compelling storytelling, your work will span the entire reporting lifecycle, from setting the direction inspired by the latest sustainability developments and themes, to defining the content strategy, advising on appropriate standards and frameworks, interviewing stakeholders, and partnering with copywriters and creatives to bring it all to life.
• Support clients’ alignment with key frameworks. You’ll work with analysts and strategists to help clients prepare for and align with key reporting and sustainability frameworks, standards and regulations (such as ESRS, ISSB, GRI, TCFD and PAI) through gap analysis, benchmarking, value chain mapping and identification of relevant disclosure requirements.
• Work on impactful sustainability strategy work. You’lldeliver progressive sustainability strategies for our clients – from in-depth double or context-based materiality assessments to ambitious and communicative strategic frameworks and targets.
• Develop topic-specific communications and campaigns. Whether communicating an organisation’s climate transition plan, or creating a communications plan around specific human rights issues, you’ll lead the development and execution of topic-specific communications and campaigns for clients across a range of sectors.
• Pitch to win.You’ll lead proposals, pitches and new business meetings, working with teams of project managers, creatives and business development partners to win work with new clients and grow existing accounts.
• Raise our profile. Naturally curious and entrepreneurial, you’ll proactively come up with inspiring ideas and unique points of view, and develop content for thought leadership and marketing material. You’ll draw upon your extensive network, building relationships and speaking at events to champion our thinking.
• Build sustainability knowledge internally. You’ll help upskill the broader RY team around sustainability topics, running Sustainability Sessions and training for colleagues in other functions, e.g. employee experience, brand, digital, film.

Requirements:

• You’re an entrepreneurial sustainability professional with a solid background in the agency or consultancy space. You’ve worked with a wide range of clients of different sizes and across multiple sectors and geographies, at various stages of their sustainability journey.
• You’re totally up to speed with the rapidly evolving landscape of sustainability and ESG frameworks, and have a solid working knowledge of ESRS and ISSB, with demonstrable experience applying these standards with clients. You also know the more established sustainability and reporting standards and frameworks inside out, including GRI, the IIRC Framework and TCFD, plus ratings and indices. Ideally, you’re familiar with context-based strategic frameworks too, such as Future-Fit and the Sustainable Development Performance Indicators.
• You have bucketloads of experience advising on and developing clients’ sustainability (and ESG) reporting, from first timers to those leading the pack. You may also have experience inputting into annual reporting.
• You’ve worked with organisations to develop their sustainability strategies and materiality assessments, including double materiality aligned with ESRS.