Culina Group Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides logistics, warehousing, distribution, and other services for the food and drink industry in the United Kingdom. It provides chilled, ambient, contract packaging, and bonded logistics services, as well as value-added services, such as online visibility and systems integration, pallet management, and supply chain management.
Culina Group is seeking a strategic and commercially minded Head of Sustainability to define and deliver our Group-wide sustainability and ESG strategy.
This is a high-impact leadership role with responsibility for embedding sustainability into how we operate, invest, and partner with customers. You’ll translate ambition into delivery, driving measurable environmental and social outcomes while supporting commercial performance, operational resilience, and regulatory compliance.
You will play a critical role in positioning Culina as a trusted, future-ready supply chain partner, enabling both the business and our customers to transition to lower-impact operations.
What You’ll Be Doing
Strategy & Leadership
- Define and lead the Group’s Sustainability & ESG strategy, aligned to business priorities and customer expectations
- Set clear ambitions, targets, and measurable outcomes, including decarbonisation goals
- Build and manage a multi-year roadmap of initiatives across the Group
Programme Delivery & Impact
- Lead decarbonisation and climate transition programmes across warehousing and transport
- Drive energy efficiency, renewable adoption, fleet transition, and operational optimisation
- Advance resource efficiency, waste reduction, and circular practices across the business
Governance & Reporting
- Establish sustainability governance, policies, and standards across the Group
- Develop an audit-ready ESG data capability covering carbon (Scopes 1–3), energy, waste, water, and social metrics
- Own sustainability reporting, disclosures, and external assurance aligned with UK/EU requirements
Commercial Integration
- Embed sustainability into investment decisions, business cases, and operational processes
- Partner with commercial teams to strengthen customer propositions through sustainability
- Support the business in meeting customer ESG expectations and requirements
Supplier & Stakeholder Engagement
- Drive responsible procurement and supplier engagement on ESG standards and emissions reduction
- Build strong cross-functional partnerships with operations, transport, engineering, procurement, finance, HR, and IT
- Lead internal engagement, capability building, and culture change across the organisation
