Environment and Sustainability Manager

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in London at least two days a week.

As the UK’s largest independent full fibre network and wholesale platform of choice, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Our network is greener, more reliable and designed for the future. The products we run over it lead the way on speed, value and service - helping businesses to innovate, communities to thrive, and people to live more connected digital lives.

At CityFibre, you’ll be part of something bigger, helping to build a better-connected Britain, together.

Joining us as an Environment and Sustainability Manager

You’ll play a key role in delivering CityFibre’s ESG strategy, helping us achieve our sustainability, decarbonisation and social value ambitions. Working closely with our Head of ESG and teams across the business, you’ll lead sustainability initiatives, own key ESG reporting activities and turn complex sustainability data into meaningful insight. You’ll combine strong technical sustainability knowledge with project management and stakeholder engagement to drive measurable change across CityFibre.

You’ll receive a salary of up to £70,000 DOE, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Leading the delivery of sustainability, decarbonisation and social value initiatives across CityFibre
• Owning ESG data collation and reporting for senior leadership, investors, shareholders and external reporting requirements
• Developing and maintaining our sustainability roadmap, ensuring initiatives are prioritised and aligned to our ESG strategy
• Leading cross-functional sustainability projects and influencing stakeholders across areas including Build, Procurement, People and Marketing
• Identifying opportunities to reduce carbon emissions and improve our environmental and social impact
• Supporting our sustainability communications, annual ESG reporting, SBTi commitments and external industry engagement

What you’ll bring to the role

You’ll have significant sustainability or ESG experience, combining strong carbon and reporting knowledge with the ability to deliver sustainability initiatives across a complex organisation. You’ll also have:

• Strong knowledge of the GHG Protocol, carbon accounting and emissions data management
• Experience managing ESG or sustainability reporting, including the analysis and presentation of complex sustainability data
• Strong project management skills with experience delivering initiatives through cross-functional teams
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels
• Strong data and analytical capability, including Excel, dashboards and sustainability reporting systems
• Experience of decarbonisation, SBTi or sustainability within infrastructure, utilities, construction or a similar environment would be advantageous

Life at CityFibre

Everyone deserves to feel heard, valued and truly included. Working alongside our Employee Communities, we’re committed to creating a workplace where people feel a genuine sense of belonging and pride in what they do. That’s why we’re proud to be a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality, endorsed by WORK180, a Disability Confident Leader, a Care Leaver Friendly Employer, and a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant Gold Award.

We’ll support you to thrive inside and outside of work, with opportunities to grow your career and a flexible benefits package that adapts to your life – including generous annual leave (with an extra day off on your birthday), private medical insurance, health cash plans and family‑friendly policies.

Find out more about our culture, communities and benefits on our careers site.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at careers@cityfibre.com. We want to help!