Sustainability & Talent Manager

Closing Date
2025-01-10

Job Title: Sustainability & Talent Manager

Location: Durrington (Worthing), West Sussex
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: circa £45,000

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

This new Sustainability & Talent Manager will form one of two manager positions, reporting to the Senior Policy, Governance, and Talent Manager, responsible for managing all activities across the team. This person will play a pivotal role in driving the sustainability aspects within our supply chain and support the procurement function with training & developing the team.

1. To establish and run a Centre of Excellence to drive Supply Chain Sustainability expectations across our Supply Chain.
2. Lead all Supply Chain Sustainability and Risk reporting needs.
3. Champion Southern Water's approach to Social Value and Procurement Ethics within the Supply Chain.
4. Establish and maintain a skills capability baseline e.g. Skills Matrix.
5. Review and identify all talent development requirements / opportunities for the function.
6. Coordinate and update a catalogue of training activities relevant to all areas of the Skills Matrix.
7. Coordinate all annual talent reviews, setting of annual objectives, periodic performance review requirements.

About You

1. Excellent communication skills - including verbal, written and presenting to a group.
2. Ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with internal stakeholders.
3. Commercial awareness and excellent analytical, planning, organisational, and problem-solving skills.
4. Ability to influence decision makers and drive change in behaviour of others.
5. Excellent knowledge and application of process management, analysis and improvement techniques.
6. Strong experience working in a Procurement organisation, specifically in compliance; ideally within a regulated environment (e.g. UCR).
7. Strong experience providing guidance on governance within a legislative framework, including risk management.
8. Strong experience developing governance frameworks/policies/processes and assessing adherence.

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a salary of circa £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

1. Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
2. 25 days annual leave
3. Life assurance equal to 4x salary
4. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
5. Health Cash Plan
6. Full funded eye tests
7. Two paid volunteering days a year
8. Occupational health service
9. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
10. Digital GP service
11. Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
12. Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
13. Cycle to work scheme

Join our Procurement team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

If this role isn't quite what you're looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support - because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. Joining the Southern Water family means you'll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement:
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.