Property and Facilities Sustainability Lead - 6 Months FTC

Vitality • Contract • London, Greater London • 1w ago

Team – People and Property

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality London Office. Full time, 37.5 hours per week. Please note this a 6 month FTC.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

 Top 3 skills needed for this role:

Sustainability project delivery expertise — the ability to lead and support energy, waste, water, fleet, and property related sustainability initiatives that directly influence Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions
Strong analytical capability — using data to assess performance, identify improvements, and drive measurable environmental outcomes
Excellent communication and collaboration — engaging clearly with stakeholders, presenting effectively, and working as a proactive, supportive team player across Property & Facilities

What this role is all about:

Vitality is driven by a belief that healthier people create a healthier planet, and this role plays a key part in that mission by supporting the Head of Property Sustainability & Projects to champion impactful initiatives across our UK properties—leading efforts in energy, waste, water, fleet, and wider property improvements that help reduce our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions while bringing our sustainability values to life in every space we operate.

Key Actions

Supports Property Sustainability function by leading our energy, waste, water, fleet, and property improvement projects that directly impact our Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions across our UK properties.
Ensure that any current practices in place are effective and are reviewed / maintained.
Research, recommend, present and deliver new initiatives for consideration / sign-off
Specifically, support our ongoing ESOS action plan and SECR reporting including liaison with landlords to gather data, build on existing relationships to understand wider building/landlord initiatives.
Interface with Finance, Risk, People, and Marketing and other areas of the business to align sustainability goals, secure budget, manage compliance, and influence behaviours.
Drive behavioural change, engaging contractors, and embedding sustainability into BAU property operations and culture.
Stakeholder management working alongside the Head of Property Sustainability & Property Projects, Chief Sustainability Officer and wider sustainability team.
Support / deliver Property & Facilities sustainability projects in our People & Property plan

What do you need to thrive?

Two years’ experience developing, maintaining, or managing sustainability initiatives, processes, or programmes involving data collection, analysis, and reporting
Analytical approach to using data to enhance sustainability and environmental performance
Experience delivering property related sustainability projects
Experience working with environmental management systems
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Strong presentation skills
Confident user of MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Passionate about creating a sustainable future
Excellent team player
Degree level qualification in Sustainability or a related subject (desirable)
Experience delivering property related sustainability projects (desirable)
Experience working with sustainability or environmental programmes in financial services (desirable)
Associate membership of an appropriate professional body (desirable)
Experience of auditing, preferably ISO 14001 (desirable)

So, what’s in it for you?

Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!

If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
Be there for you when you need us.
Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.

We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About You

About Us

We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!

Vitality is a multi-award-winning UK insurance brand, here to make the world a healthier, happier place.

We’ve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives – they benefit, our business benefits, and society benefits. We’re successful because we attract, develop, and retain the best people – and because we care.

Plus, you get to join our 1.7+ million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.

Ready to find out if we’re the right fit for you? We can’t wait.

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Diversity & Inclusion

At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.

Vitality’s approach to sustainability

Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid

If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested, please submit your application as soon as possible.