Social Value Manager

GXO Logistics; Northampton; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Social Values Manager and lead initiatives that create positive community impact. In this role, you'll develop and implement a comprehensive Social Value Strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and customer objectives. You'll collaborate with various stakeholders, track social value metrics, and foster a culture of sustainability and environmental awareness across multiple sites. This position offers a unique opportunity to make a real difference while enjoying a competitive salary and a robust benefits package, including a company car or allowance, private medical insurance, and more. If you're passionate about driving change and enhancing community initiatives, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Company Car or Car Allowance

Private Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Assurance

Employee Assistance Programme

Pension Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

High Street Discounts

Cashback Cards

Saving Scheme

Qualifications

• Degree or similar qualification in HR, L&D, or QHSE is essential.
• Experience in employee engagement or CSR roles is required.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement a Social Value Strategy aligned with business goals.
• Track and report on social value outcomes and measures achieved.

Skills

Employee Engagement

Community Engagement

Communication Skills

Environmental Awareness

Microsoft Office

Project Management

Education

Degree in HR, L&D, or QHSE

Membership of an environmental body

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft PowerPoint

Job description

Make a Difference. Lead Change.

We’re looking for a passionate Social Values Manager to drive real impact. If you thrive on creating positive change, shaping community initiatives, and making businesses a force for good, this is your chance to lead. Join us and help turn purpose into action.

Our Social Value Manager will collaborate with key stakeholders to develop, implement, and oversee a Social Value Strategy and action plan that aligns with our business goals, customer objectives, and contractual commitments. You will drive awareness of the strategy, including the delivery of equal opportunity initiatives.

A key aspect of the role involves tracking and reporting on social value metrics and activities across all sites, providing regular insights and improvement plans to stakeholders. Additionally, you will ensure employees are educated on sustainability practices, fostering a culture of environmental awareness and responsibility. This role requires flexibility and mobility to cover multiple sites across the UK.

Pay, benefits and more:

We’re looking to offer a competitive salary and 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays). Your benefits package includes a company car or car allowance, a company sponsored pension scheme, private medical & dental insurance, a 24/7 online GP service, life assurance and a fully comprehensive employee assistance programme. You’ll also have access to our MyBenefits platform offering a variety of high street discounts, a cycle to work scheme, cashback cards, a saving scheme and much more!

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Design and implement a comprehensive Social Value Strategy that aligns with business and customer objectives and contractual obligations, and work with sites to implement Social Value activities aligned to the strategy.
• Establish and manage local activity to deliver our Social Value Commitments.
• Regularly track and report on social value outcomes and measures achieved on the contract to stakeholders and external partners.
• Ensure and support all sites to develop and deliver plans to drive an inclusive culture and engaged workforce, driving improved employee engagement scores.
• Monitor waste management practices, fuel efficiency, energy savings, water conservation etc. to ultimately achieve Net Zero.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

• Degree or similar professional level qualification (HR, L&D, QHSE), plus membership or working towards membership of a relevant environmental body would be beneficial.
• Experience within employee engagement, training, community engagement, social value or a CSR role, or have had significant elements of these in previous or current role.
• Good communication skills with the ability to tailor these to suit different audiences.
• Written communication skills, ability to use Microsoft Office, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Ability to deliver Environmental projects with recorded outcomes with a working knowledge of the waste regulations within the UK.
• CI mindset, constantly striving for improvements.

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. GXO is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate, support and thrive on diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that diversity and inclusion in our business is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are an Armed Forces friendly organisation and Disability Confident Leader as part of the Disability Confident Scheme (GIS) and actively welcome applications from people with disabilities.