Overview
Team – People and Property
Working Pattern – Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 40 hours per week.
Top 3 skills needed for this role:
- Sustainability project delivery expertise — the ability to lead and support energy, waste, water, fleet, and property related sustainability initiatives that directly influence Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
- Strong analytical capability — using data to assess performance, identify improvements, and drive measurable environmental outcomes
- Excellent communication and collaboration — engaging clearly with stakeholders, presenting effectively, and working as a proactive, supportive team player across Property & Facilities
What this role is all about:
Vitality is driven by a belief that healthier people create a healthier planet, and this role plays a key part in that mission by supporting the Head of Property Sustainability & Projects to champion impactful initiatives across our UK properties—leading efforts in energy, waste, water, fleet, and wider property improvements that help reduce our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions while bringing our sustainability values to life in every space we operate.
Key Actions
- Supports Property Sustainability function by leading our energy, waste, water, fleet, and property improvement projects that directly impact our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across our UK properties.
- Ensure that any current practices in place are effective and are reviewed / maintained.
- Research, recommend, present and deliver new initiatives for consideration / sign-off
- Specifically, support our ongoing ESOS action plan and SECR reporting including liaison with landlords to gather data, build on existing relationships to understand wider building/landlord initiatives.
- Interface with Finance, Risk, People, and Marketing and other areas of the business to align sustainability goals, secure budget, manage compliance, and influence behaviours.
- Drive behavioural change, engaging contractors, and embedding sustainability into BAU property operations and culture.
- Stakeholder management working alongside the Head of Property Sustainability & Property Projects, Chief Sustainability Officer and wider sustainability team.
- Support / deliver Property & Facilities sustainability projects in our People & Property plan
What do you need to thrive?
- Two years’ experience developing, maintaining, or managing sustainability initiatives, processes, or programmes involving data collection, analysis, and reporting
- Analytical approach to using data to enhance sustainability and environmental performance
- Experience delivering property related sustainability projects
- Experience working with environmental management systems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Confident user of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Passionate about creating a sustainable future
- Excellent team player
- Degree level qualification in Sustainability or a related subject (desirable)
- Experience delivering property related sustainability projects (desirable)
- Experience working with sustainability or environmental programmes in financial services (desirable)
- Associate membership of an appropriate professional body (desirable)
- Experience of auditing, preferably ISO 14001 (desirable)
- Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance – Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
- Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
- Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
- Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
- Be there for you when you need us.
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.
About Us
We’re really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded “Top 10 Best Places To Work” in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!
Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.
We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.
