Head of Environmental Sustainability and - Southampton, United Kingdom - Lloyd's Register Group

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Description

Date:24 Apr 2024


Location:
Southampton, GB, SO53 3RY


Company:
Lloyds Register

Job ID:39423


Head of Environmental Sustainability and Operational Performance

(12 months fixed term)

Lloyd's Register

Location:
Southampton or London preferred


What we're looking for


A key member of the Quality, Health, Safety and Environment Function (QHSE), you are accountable for leading the development and deployment of LR's sustainability and environmental vision, strategy, policy and systems to enhance LR's sustainability performance across the Group.


You will propose, and own (on behalf of the ELT), LR's plan to get to Net Zero and associated Science Based Targets and raise the profile of environment and sustainability issues through championing appropriate improvement plans.


You will provide one source of truth for the QHSE Function, identifying trends in QHSE performance, driving continuous improvement through collaboration with stakeholders to identify areas for improvement, root causes of inefficiencies, and opportunities for innovation.


A key part of your role will require you to lead on the identification, evaluation, and implementation of tools and technologies that enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness; optimising the use of these to streamline workflows, eliminate bottlenecks, and improve overall productivity across the organisation.


What we offer you


The opportunity to work for an organization that has a strong sense of purpose, is values driven and helps colleagues to develop professionally and personally through our range of people development programs.


  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus
  • Opportunity for 15% matched Pension
  • Hybrid working
  • 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
  • A range of flexible benefits

The role

Sustainability and Environmental leadership

  • Lead and deliver an environmental sustainability vision, influencing and challenging organisational culture to improve sustainability performance and to translate the vision into a range of initiatives and processes that deliver behavioural change and sustainable solutions.
  • Lead and deliver work to support the promotion of LR's sustainability credentials in the market, through contributing to LR's Annual ESG and other associated reporting (UNGC, etc), as well as customer and other campaign communications.
  • Ensure transparency of LR's sustainability performance by owning and delivering the measurement, verification, analysis and reporting of environmental and sustainability performance providing verifiable data that is aligned to and in compliance with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) reporting requirements.
  • Lead and oversee the maintenance of and coordinate of the emissions reduction plan in line with LRs long term sciencebased target and net zero ambitions.
  • Alongside the relevant ELT Sponsor, facilitate and coordinate the activities, as coChair, of the Sustainability Committee to ensure appropriate ownership, and delivery, of the corporate sustainability programme.
  • Engage and build effective relationships with key internal stakeholders and support functions to improve their understanding and buyin to sustainability, the relevance to LR's purpose and vision and to advance sustainability through innovative, exciting and engaging initiatives and communications.
  • Inspire and inculcate a bottomup, employee driven culture of responsibility for sustainability and meeting associated commitments, focused on individual accountability, personal behaviours and acts.
  • Develop and share case studies and measure impacts of products/services that reflect environmental innovation and expertise to enhance external relations, promote LR's leadership in this sector and share best practice across the business.
  • Ensure LR's commitment to sustainability by benchmarking performance against internal and external measures to ensure compliance with both mandatory and voluntary standards and requirements.
  • Proactively keep up to date with environmental legislation, best practice and industry initiatives, ensuring LR remains at the forefront of sustainable practices.

SQHSE Operational Performance

  • Develop and implement strategies to improve efficiency, quality, and (internal) customer satisfaction.
  • Lead a high performing global team across regional HSE operations, defining QHSE practices, improving process efficiency with a datadriven approach, as well as leading meaningful QHSE projects to support the business growth and functional needs.
  • Ownership of Safety and Quality Committees agendas, papers and attendees in a manner that enables the fora to be purpose led.
  • Manage and oversee financial aspects relevant to the role, including the development of budgets and financial plans aligned with expected contract spend and overall budgetary planning. This will include providing oversight for Group QHSE Contracts and associated rene

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