ESG Manager

ESG Manager

Department: Compliance

Location: Birmingham

Compensation: £0 / year

Location: UK (With Hybrid Working)

At RLB, we live by four simple ideas:
Truth, Trust, Together, Tomorrow. Four values that live at the heart of RLB. A place where People Make Progress.

We value your skills, talents and unique perspectives – we think they are priceless.

Bring them to RLB and you’ll be empowered to shape our future and your career in new and meaningful ways.

We’ll give you opportunities to work on some of the most ambitious and exciting projects currently being designed and developed in the built environment sector.

You’ll continue to learn and advance as everyone who works for us is provided with a tailored training programme. Our mentoring and reverse mentoring schemes will enable you to share your expertise while gaining fresh insights.

What makes RLB unique is our inclusive culture. As an independent, employee-owned business, teamwork and collaboration lies at the heart of everything we do. Hybrid and flexible working arrangements and family-friendly policies are just some of the ways we invest in employee wellbeing.

Join us and you will thrive personally as well as professionally.

The role reports to the Compliance and Business Improvement Partner, and works closely with colleagues from across the business; ESG, Legal and Risk Director, People and Culture Operations Manager, other senior management colleagues, service line leads, and RLB’s core functions to progress the corporate ESG strategy and the social and environmental performance of our operational activities. The role also sits on the Global ESG Committee.

The role leads on all matters relating to corporate responsibility reporting and disclosures – including RLB’s annual ESG report, Eco Vadis, ESOS, SECR, UN Global Compact Communications on Progress, and CDP – and will stay abreast of any other mandatory or voluntary disclosures that the business may need to report against in the future.

The role is accountable for RLB’s corporate environmental and social sustainability performance This includes such areas as carbon footprint calculations and verification, driving decarbonisation initiatives, growing the RLB Forest, reducing waste, improving supplier engagement, ensuring ongoing compliance to ISO 14001, increasing utilisation of CSR Days, and all corporate and client Social Value delivery, monitoring and reporting.

This role will have line management responsibility for a Social Value Professional, and an ESG Assistant and will work as part of the wider Compliance team.

• Lead on the delivery of the UK ESG Strategy and net zero plan, developing a climate transition plan for RLB UK.
• Lead on, and be accountable for, the four-monthly UK carbon data collation, providing guidance to the team in managing the process and in uploading the data onto our carbon data software.
• Take ownership of the Scope 3:
  Purchased Goods and Services category, improving data granularity and developing a supplier engagement programme.
• Support and provide guidance to RLB Europe core operational teams on Scopes 1, 2 and 3 data collation.
• Calculate carbon offsetting figures, and liaise with offset provider to purchase, in line with RLB’s offsetting strategy.
• Analyse carbon emissions data and understand the narrative behind the data to communicate it to the wider business internally and externally via required reporting and disclosures.
• Highlight any opportunities for improvement, for investment, and any areas of environmental or climate change risk.
• Be the contact and relationship manager for our sustainability partners, including Planet Mark, Green The UK, Anthesis, etc.
• Lead on, and be accountable for, regular internal meetings with the regional Environment Community, ensuring all relevant environmental initiatives are clearly communicated to the Environmental Reps, and any issues communicated back to the central business as appropriate.
• Lead on any mandatory environmental training for RLB UK, developing training resources and creating updates as appropriate.
• As part of the Global ESG Committee, advise and support the global…