Senior Carbon Footprinting and Sustainability - Manchester, United Kingdom - The Growth Company

The Growth Company

Verified Company

Manchester, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The experienced consultant will play a crucial role in supporting businesses to understand their carbon emissions, develop decarbonisation plans and to set meaningful goals to support the realisation of net zero targets.

Key Responsibilities:

To identity a pipeline of large carbon emitting businesses and support them to gather baseline data to measure their carbon footprint.
To help them to understand hotspots of carbon intensity across all emissions scopes.
Plan a reduction strategy, setting meaningful targets.
Undertake detailed discussions with client around complex business issues to understand their business challenges, making sound recommendations for appropriate actions that will lead to more sustainable business practice and mitigate risks associated with climate change.
Production of business decarbonisation plans to detail how such businesses might reduce their emissions to Net Zero.
To help businesses with their existing carbon footprints to validate their footprints, their targets, rationalise their plans, or help them to prepare new ones.
Work with the relevant businesses closely to monitor any ongoing outcomes of support including increases in staff, implementing green tech and associated reductions in GHGs.
Work with key stakeholders to provide local carbon intelligence and insight to help steer future activity.

About You:

At least 8 years carbon consulting or carbon footprinting experience.
Proven track record of carbon reduction strategies implemented in business.
SECR and PPN reporting mechanisms.
Have specialist, technical expertise alongside excellent communication and people skills, to articulate the benefits of the transition to a low carbon economy to a wide range of stakeholders.
Degree level education, with post graduate level qualifications and business experience.
Professional experience and approach to managing and delivering business assessment, advice, and development to support businesses to decarbonise.
Knowledge and understanding of the key challenges and market failures preventing businesses from reducing their carbon emissions.

Skills Required:

Excellent communication and networking skills.
Experienced presenter and public speaker.
Knowledge of the legislative and regulatory framework in relation to carbon/net zero.
Excellent IT skills, including an understanding of computerised management.
Experienced in supporting business to identify and implement energy efficiency and carbon reduction projects that can help the business to reduce its carbon footprint.

For an outline of the benefits and what you can expect working for us, see Life At GC | The Growth Company**GC aims to promote a culture of flexibility and agile working. Going forward we will be transitioning to a culture where full agile working will be a feature of many of our roles. We also recognise that there may be a need for more permanent flexibility in your working arrangements and in such cases, we encourage you to have these discussions at the interview stage, to enable your flexible working request to be considered as early as possible.

Job Types:
Full-time, Permanent

Salary:
Up to £48,800.00 per year

Benefits: