Senior Environmental Consultant

Sopra Steria has become a leader in climate & environmental sustainability in its sector. For eight years running, the achievements of our best-in-class climate & environmental sustainability practices in managing emissions from our value chain (direct operations, clients and supply chain), have earned us a place in the CDP Climate A list. This has placed us amongst the top 2% (515 of the 22,700) of companies benchmarked worldwide.

Momentum is gathering in both public and private sector organisations as requirements to address climate change, the single biggest long-term threat facing humanity, are increasing and becoming more complex. To play our part in fighting climate change we have committed to achieve net zero targets by 2040 which have been validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi).

Digital technology contributes approximately 4% of global emissions today and this is expected to grow to 14% by 2040. Sopra Steria are proud members of the UK Government Digital Sustainability Alliance (GDSA) through which we collaborate with the rest of the tech sector, UK government departments and universities to develop ideas and solutions so that digital technologies & services will place less pressure on the planet.

At Sopra Steria we believe the world is how we shape it and we are committed to shaping it for a better, healthier planet.

The Senior Environmental Consultant sits within the UK Environment and Sustainability team and will report into the UK Head of Climate and Environmental Sustainability. The internal facing aspect of this role will involve engagement with internal functions, business units, bid teams and client account teams as well as technologists to help implement our UK Climate & Environmental Sustainability Strategy and related work programme.

The external facing aspect will involve collaboration with suppliers to facilitate progress towards our net zero targets as well as evolving our capability to measure and reduce the environmental impacts of our digital service offerings. In addition, you will liaise with clients to understand their needs & expectations and shaping contract-level environmental sustainability plans & reporting to ensure we deliver against our commercial agreements.

The candidate is expected to have a proven track record as an environmental lead with extensive experience of environmental reporting and an ability to communicate information of a specialist nature with clarity, brevity and impact.to be able to influence stakeholders.

You will be a common link across various teams to support our UK operations as well as support engagement with the Sopra Steria Group, our parent company in France.

This role is UK based with a hybrid way of working allowing flexibility to work from home and a local office ideally in Manchester or Leeds. There will be a requirement to attend meetings in London and Manchester.

What you will be doing:

• Prepare annual Scope 1, 2 and 3 GHG emissions and energy consumption data for inclusion statutory disclosures and commercial deliverables, e.g. SECR, ESOS, Mandatory Climate-related Financial Disclosures, PPN 006 Carbon Reduction Plans, etc.
• Provide support with the production, implementation, monitoring, review and refinement of plans to achieve our corporate environmental objectives & targets.
• Responsible and accountable for establishing, implementing and maintaining effective processes to ensure UK data in the Sopra Steria Group ESG Dashboard tool is accurate, complete, reliable and traceable.
• Produce environmental KPI monitoring reports.
• Maintain auditable evidence packs to ensure environmental disclosures and claims are true and verifiable.
• Produce and analyse metrics that enable effective monitoring, identification of trends and facilitate improvement of environmental performance.
• Perform relevant quantitative analysis and modelling to support management of climate-related risks and opportunities.
• Write bid responses.
• Provide advice and support to client account teams for developing plans to solution services in a way that reduces their environmental impact throughout contract delivery.
• Calculate and report contract-level GHG emissions (as per terms and conditions inserted into UK government that align with PPN 016).
• Production and presentation of environmental scorecards and other reporting as agreed with clients.
• Work with colleagues in the UK and across Group to establish methodologies for measuring the environmental impacts of IT and digital technology & services, including AI.Provide support to increase awareness and buy-in to embed digital sustainability best practices to reduce the environmental impacts related to the way Sopra Steria designs, builds, delivers and evolves digital technology & services.
  
  

What you’ll bring:

• Membership of ISEP (formerly IEMA)
• Proven experience for calculating Scope 1, 2 and 3 (in particular Purchased Goods & Services emissions.
• Basic knowledge of the environmental impacts of IT and digital technologies with a drive to expand and apply learning.
• Proven experience in calculating environmental impacts of IT e.g. PUE of data centres.
• Depth in technical knowledge with an ability to converse and provide advice around Climate Change, Net Zero, Science Based Targets, Carbon Offsetting, Energy Efficiency, Water and Biodiversity.
• Knowledge of UK Government climate change & environmental sustainability schemes, e.g. PPN 006 & 016, Government Buying Standards, Greening Government Commitments).
• Experience of working with teams, in a challenging and demanding environment, across large complex organisations.
• Ability to deliver outputs, within a busy working environment, against set objectives and deadlines
• Good verbal and written communication including the ability to present ideas in a collaborative, professional and credible manner.
  
  

It would be great if you had:

• A Masters degree in an environment or sustainability related subject
• Competency in MS Excel and Power BI.
• Experience in completing the CDP Climate Change questionnaire.
• Knowledge of EU Taxonomy and Code of Conduct for Data Centres
  
  

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent

Location: Manchester or Leeds

Security Clearance Level: SC

Internal Recruiter: Alex

Salary: Circa £53,000

Benefits: £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we support many ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

Our business is, first and foremost, about people. And it always has been. The solutions we develop are driven by the connections they make and the problems they solve. Our services only matter if they work for people and if they serve a greater purpose. Known for our collaborative approach, we provide consulting and digital services, creating innovative solutions, at scale, to deliver sustainable growth and services that make life better.

Our work touches many lives in the UK. From helping the Government provide essential public and health services that offer more convenience and choice, to improving financial services to deliver fairer, customer-centric solutions.

Together we are building a better future by delivering real and lasting value.

We are just at the start of what we can achieve together. Come and join us!

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.