Director of Sustainable Business
- Salary: £80,000+ depending on experience
- Duration: Permanent
- Location: We support hybrid working and have a sustainable office space in County Hall, Waterloo.
- Experience: 10 or more years of relevant experience
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Bioregional is an award-winning purpose-led sustainability consultancy and social enterprise. Headquartered in Europe’s largest climate tech cluster, we have a thirty-year track record of working with some of the world’s leading businesses, helping them deliver high-impact sustainability strategies, projects and products that respond to the climate and ecological emergency.
We are now recruiting an experienced sustainability consultant to lead our growing Sustainable Business team, working with high-profile clients, from multinational retailers to the United Nations, as well as addressing the needs of smaller businesses and SMEs.
As a member of our Leadership Team, you will bring your skills to help our purpose-led organisation to deliver maximum impact towards systemic change through our work.
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As Director of Sustainable Business, you will shape and deliver our work by nurturing existing and developing new relationships with new clients and partners, and managing key strategic relationships.
As well as leading the business development of the team, you will work with sector-leading retailers and other organisations on carbon footprint and net-zero and sustainability strategy, governance and reporting, and the development of sustainable products and solutions.
You will work alongside senior colleagues in the team and inspire our ambitious junior consultants, helping them to deliver quality outputs and develop their skills and careers.
Your skills and experience
You are a commercially minded and client-facing sustainability leader with skills in networking, creating relationships, and a good knowledge of current and future market trends. You are experienced in engaging with and maintaining relationships with clients at a senior level. You are creative and able to think on your feet, with strong presentation and communication skills, alongside the ability to undertake and oversee quality research and technical deliverables.
Qualifications
You will have a strong background in sustainability, with ten or more years of relevant experience.
About Bioregional
Bioregional is one of the UK’s original sustainability consultancies. Founded in 1994, we have been winning awards and working with partners to create cutting-edge solutions to sustainability for almost 30 years.
As a purpose-led organisation, our mission is to help businesses and communities to respond to the climate and ecological emergency, and to create a world in which we can live happy and healthy lives within the limits of our planet’s resources.
We focus on real world impact, acting as a ‘critical friend’ to our clients and challenging them to innovate at the boundaries of best practice. We have built our expertise, knowledge, and reputation by collaborating with leading industry players, from leading multinational retailers to housebuilders, real estate investors, pension funds, and local authorities.
We are a social enterprise. This means that unlike other consultants, we have no partners or shareholders. We use any surpluses we make to fund practical projects and educational resources that enable people to live more sustainably, and then share this learning with industry and policymakers to drive systemic change.
We are the creators of the One Planet Living framework, which provides a vision and a toolkit for creating healthy and happy lifestyles within the limits of our one planet, and which we make free to use by everyone. These principles have guided the development of exemplar projects across the world – in the UK these include BedZED, the UK's first large-scale eco-village, the sustainability strategy for London’s bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics, and the UK's first eco-town, Elmsbrook, in Oxfordshire.
Your new team
At Bioregional, you will work closely with a small but mighty bunch of like-minded colleagues who are dedicated to creating a more sustainable world, with no greenwashing. We are entrepreneurial and professional, always delivering the highest standards of work and giving colleagues the freedom to innovate. And we treat everyone with respect, support our colleagues, and embrace diversity to create a nurturing, warm and united environment.
Don’t just take our word for it, read what our former employees said about their time with us here.
At Bioregional you can work flexibly from our sustainable office space in central London, offering easy commuting options and a wealth of local amenities.
What’s in it for you?
1. Work-life balance
Work is only one part of your life and making time for other things is important – be that your families, friends, or yourself. We are committed to giving you the flexibility to work at different locations and times, whether that be in the comfort of your own home or collaborating with colleagues in the office.
2. Diversity and inclusion
We foster a supportive, inclusive workplace where people can be themselves and achieve great things. We are committed to improving diversity and inclusion within the built environment and sustainability sectors – including our own organisation – and we expressly welcome applications from those with a disability and people of a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background.
3. Health and wellbeing
Health and wellbeing are fundamental to our ethos and our vision of a better world. We make sure we’re a great place to work through regular feedback with colleagues and run regular social activities – in person and online – to build and maintain our positive working culture. We are committed to supporting our team through a range of benefits, from our employee assistance programme to our cycle-to-work scheme.
4. Professional development
We have a learning culture and help our people to enjoy rewarding careers where they will grow and develop their skills. We build and share our knowledge through regular staff seminars and offer 10 days of training and development time each year, a training budget for each employee, plus additional support for formal training and study. Bioregional’s training pathway means that colleagues always understand and have access to the training they need to progress their career – be they an Analyst or a Head of Department.
5. An ethical employer
We live our values in everything we do. As well as working from sustainable office space alongside like-minded businesses, your benefits include a 6% employer’s ethical pension contribution and 25 days of annual leave, rising by one day for each year you work with us, for up to five years.
Find out more by reading the full job description. Please apply by submitting a CV and cover letter, describing why you want the job and what you would bring to the role, to [email protected]. If you think this role is right for you then we would love to hear from you, even if you think you don’t meet all the requirements set out above.
We positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, ethnicity, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, religion/belief, marital status, pregnancy stage, maternity/paternity status, or any other equality characteristic.
Deadline: We encourage you to apply for this role as soon as possible, as we will review applications as they come in, and close the vacancy once we find the right candidate. As soon as we fill the role, this page will be updated/removed to reflect that, so please do apply if you're reading this.
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