Overview
Are you passionate about driving meaningful change and helping businesses transition to a more sustainable future? This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and driving our corporate sustainability strategy. The role goes beyond just analysis – the successful candidate will be given the autonomy to engage with stakeholders across the business to assist in developing in our strategy and drive change.
We are looking for a proactive, ambitious individual with a background in Corporate Sustainability and an understanding of environmental risks, opportunities, impacts and dependencies. They will need to be comfortable with various levels of stakeholder engagement and managing multiple workstreams or initiatives simultaneously. Most importantly, the individual will need to have passion for sustainability and driving change across our organisation.
We believe in ongoing personal development and will support training to ensure that you flourish in this role and in Quilter.
As a Corporate Sustainability Analyst at Quilter, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to embed sustainability across our organisation, working with stakeholders throughout Quilter to develop our corporate climate and environment strategy across our operations and our supply chain. You will assist in developing and running initiatives to progress towards our sustainability and emissions reduction targets.
This position offers the opportunity to work at the heart of our sustainability efforts, collaborating with various departments and contributing to the broader corporate vision. The role is perfect for someone who is passionate about sustainability and thrives on establishing strong working relationships to deliver change,
Specific Responsibilities:
- Driving Emission Reductions: Partnering with property teams to identify opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of our offices and operational spaces.
- Colleague Engagement: Developing and delivering programmes to raise awareness and embed sustainability into our workplace culture.
- Supply Chain Collaboration: Working closely with suppliers to reduce the carbon impact of the goods and services we procure, ensuring alignment with our sustainability objectives.
- Strategy Development: Playing a key role in shaping and delivering our climate transition plan, identifying opportunities and setting new targets and KPIs to measure our progress.
- Performance Monitoring: Tracking, analysing, and reporting on sustainability performance, ensuring progress towards key milestones and targets.
- Climate-related risk assessment: Work collaboratively across Quilter to assist in the identification and assessment of climate-related risks and opportunities and own the physical climate-related risk assessment for our offices.
- Provide support on the production of our regulatory and voluntary sustainability reporting (TCFD, TNFD, CDP, UNGC etc.)
About You:
- Previous experience in a sustainability focused role. You will be passionate about sustainability; be able to engage with different audiences and take ownership and responsibility whilst working collaboratively with colleagues.
- Ability to develop and plan sustainability initiatives.
- An understanding of physical climate-related risks.
- An understanding of corporate carbon emissions, but also sustainability factors beyond climate change.
- An understanding of the TCFD/TNFD Frameworks (climate and nature-related risks, opportunities, impacts and dependencies) would be desirable but not essential.
- Knowledge or experience in operational or value chain emissions reductions initiatives with a focus on office space.
- Experience in stakeholder engagement.
- You will have an effective communication style and have very strong writing skills, be solution-oriented and have a flexible approach to helping others deliver on team tasks. You will also have strong organisational and project management skills, good attention to detail, strong analytical skills and proactively collaborate with others.
We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.
