Sustainability Director

We're looking for a Sustainability Director to join our Infrastructure Division team based in a flexible location with ability to travel UK wide.

Location: Flexible with ability to travel UK wide
Hours: Full time - some flexibility on hours available if desired, just let us know when you speak to us.

We are unable to offer certificates of sponsorship to any candidates in this role.

The Sustainability Director is responsible for shaping, leading and embedding the Infrastructure division's sustainability strategy. This is a fantastic opportunity to translate Kier's Building for a Sustainable World Strategy into a clear divisional plan, creating long-term sustainable value for our clients, customers, communities, colleagues and investors. You'll be working collaboratively with divisional leadership teams, operational teams, clients and supply chain partners, role modelling visible, inclusive and accountable leadership behaviours. This role reports to the People Director on the Infrastructure Board and is a key member of the Infrastructure leadership community.

What will you be responsible for?

As a Sustainability Director, you'll be working within the Infrastructure leadership community team, supporting them in delivering the divisional sustainability agenda and influencing strategic decisions. Your day to day will include:

• Leading the design, delivery and review of the Infrastructure divisional sustainability plan, aligned to Kier's Building for a Sustainable World Strategy
• Setting, monitoring and reviewing divisional sustainability performance measures and KPIs, ensuring visibility through ESG reporting and governance
• Driving delivery of social value, ethical labour strategy and social mobility milestone plans across the division
• Supporting strategic work winning and bidding activity, ensuring sustainability is embedded as a clear differentiator in client propositions
• Building capability in the workforce on sustainability and leading a high-performing team to deliver strong business outcomes

What are we looking for?

This role of Sustainability Director is great for you if:

• You have significant senior leadership experience in sustainability or ESG, with a proven track record of delivering organisation-wide strategies
• You possess recognised expertise across multiple sustainability domains including climate, social value, ethical labour and supply chain
• You have demonstrable experience influencing at executive and board level, shaping strategic direction and embedding sustainability into core business decisions
• You excel at leading cross-functional delivery, working effectively across HR, operations, procurement and commercial teams
• You're commercially aware and outcome-focused, with excellent stakeholder engagement skills and a data-driven mindset

We're all about finding potential here at Kier, and transferrable skills are always welcome! So, even if you don't tick every box, please apply and we can have a chat.

Rewards and benefits

We're proud to be able to offer our brilliant people a wide variety of benefits that you can tailor to your needs. You can see more information of benefits here.

Diversity and inclusion

Making Kier a diverse and inclusive place to work is a huge priority for us. We're proud of the steps we've taken so far, but we know we must always do more. Our employees are key in shaping Kier's diversity and inclusion initiatives and our people have made a huge impact on how we work, by using their experiences to shape our policies. You can see our D&I action plan here. As a Disability Confident employer, we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants that meet the minimum criteria for this role will be offered an interview.

We look forward to seeing your application to #joinkier.

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