Senior Sustainability Strategy Manager

Heathrow Airport; Hounslow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global airport in the UK seeks a Senior Sustainability Strategy Manager to drive their sustainability initiatives. You will develop, align, and interpret sustainability strategies while engaging cross-functional teams to ensure ambitious sustainability targets are met. Candidates should possess strong analytical, communication, and leadership skills with a passion for sustainable aviation.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Annual performance-based bonuses

Generous annual leave

Market-leading pensions

Private health insurance

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Demonstrable interest in sustainability issues in aviation.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
• Excellent written and oral communication.
• Experience with corporate governance processes.
• Ability to prepare high quality reports.
• Experience of collaborating with stakeholders.
• Adaptable and comfortable with change.
• Exceptional attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Drive development of Heathrow's sustainability strategy.
• Monitor emerging trends in sustainable business.
• Create strategic alignment between corporate and sustainability strategies.
• Manage cross-functional engagement programs.
• Interpret sustainability strategy for the business.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Leadership capability

Organizational skills

Job description

Overview

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As a Senior Sustainability Strategy Manager you will drive work to continuously develop Heathrow's strategic approach to sustainability, with a focus on understanding and delivering impact on priority issues, as defined by a robust materiality process.

You will also ensure that Heathrow's overarching sustainability strategy aligns with Heathrow's business strategy, and with topic-specific sustainability strategies and plans, and work with teams across the business to ensure it is clearly interpreted for key stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Regularly review, update and strengthen Heathrow's sustainability strategy, helping to set the strategic direction for the company and driving a rigorous and structured approach to identifying sustainability priorities
• Monitor and understand emerging external trends in sustainable business to ensure Heathrow understands its strategic context and maintains a leadership approach
• Create strategic alignment between the sustainability strategy and the corporate strategy through the development of strong working relationships with key strategic people
• Develop tools, approaches and guidance to help embed and align sustainability strategy with key business processes, for example supply chain management, governance and business planning
• Manage a cross-functional programme of engagement to ensure that the sustainability strategy is translated into a suite of roadmaps, annual targets and activity, with ownership clearly defined and aligned across Heathrow
• Clearly interpret Heathrow's sustainability strategy for use across the business and with external stakeholders, ensuring there is clarity on where collaboration would be beneficial

Qualifications

• Demonstrable interest in Heathrow's strategic agenda and the sustainability issues facing the aviation sector
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills coupled with a creative and innovative approach to identifying solutions
• Excellent written and oral communication, to interact and influence credibly and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including senior management and external partners
• Comfortable with corporate governance and processes, with the ability to prepare high quality reports, papers and materials
• Experience of working with teams of internal and external stakeholders with an open, straightforward and collaborative style
• Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity and change
• Strong leadership capability to motivate and develop junior members of the team and influence colleagues in other teams
• Exceptional attention to detail, with strong organisational skills

About Us

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Its sights. Its sounds. Its constant air of excitement. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities.

Every day, you'll discover a world full of fresh possibilities and end the day buzzing with stories to tell, as you encounter people from all cultures, nationalities and experiences. A world full of pride for what we do and no end of exciting career prospects to explore.

It brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards

We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working Location

Our Hybrid working approach offers the opportunity for colleagues in some roles to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow. Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process. You'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to Heathrow.

Sustainable Travel to work

Heathrow's Sustainable Travel Guide sets out easy and sustainable travel options that everyone can access.

Equal Opportunities

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger - not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work. With five diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.

About the Team

There's no place like Heathrow when it comes to the scale of our ambitions. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability. Our Communications, Communities and Carbon function brings together engagement, communications and sustainability leadership. This is about more than protecting and enhancing our reputation. Focusing on the experiences of our passengers, colleagues and partners, we ensure that as Heathrow thrives, so too will our people, our communities, our country and our world.

Our sustainability strategy, Heathrow 2.0, is central to everything we do. We are committed to sustainable aviation, as Heathrow works to deliver net zero and build a better place to live and work. We work with industry leading experts to deliver on our ambitions, meeting the growing international demand for flight in a way that creates a positive impact far beyond our airport.