Position Title: Sustainability Technical Project Manager
Duration: Contract
Location: Crewe, Cheshire
Main Goals and Objectives
- Lead and deliver sustainability initiatives within Procurement, ensuring clear execution of projects that reduce supply chain impact, support compliance, and integrate sustainability into sourcing decisions.
- Drive operational delivery of the Procurement sustainability roadmap, translating strategy into measurable actions across suppliers, processes, and governance.
- Ensure alignment with the Clients’ requirements while enabling buyers and stakeholders with practical tools, guidance, and support.
Main Responsibilities
Project Delivery (core of the role)
- Lead sustainability projects end-to-end owned by procurement
- Lead delivery of sustainability roadmap of procurement
- Build and manage project plans, actions, owners, deadlines, and risks.
- Run governance: meeting cadence, progress reporting, escalation management in the Clients’ Level.
- Deliver, progress and continuously improve pilots and operational actions (not just coordination).
Supply Chain Sustainability / Technical Delivery
- Support Procurement to reduce supply chain emissions
- Help define and deliver supplier decarbonisation plans and improvement roadmaps.
- Support the integration of sustainability into sourcing, including support to reach selection of supplier.
- Support development and application of Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) and/or Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approaches (internally and with suppliers)
- Support compliance work linked to supply chain regulations
- Help deliver and track supplier compliance evidence (data, audits, questionnaires, corrective actions).
- Support topics such as:
- Supplier risk escalation tracking
- Evidence collection and closure tracking
- Operational Sustainability Support + BAU activities
- Provide operational guidance to suppliers and buyers in sourcing decisions and general discussions
Chain of Custody, Traceability and Group Alignment
- Work with Group/Brand leads to understand and implement Chain of Custody processes.
- Integrate traceability steps into Procurement sourcing processes (templates, gates, governance).
- Help develop traceability and transparency across n-tier supply chains.
- Align approach with Group requirements and share learning across stakeholders.
Training and Stakeholder Support
- Provide practical support to Buyers and Commodity Teams
- Strategic suppliers
- Build simple “how-to” guidance, templates, and clear process steps
Reporting and Data
- Create and maintain monthly reporting for sustainability metrics (e.g., emissions, energy, waste, water), using agreed tools
- Track KPIs and delivery outcomes and communicate progress clearly
Skills & Experience
- Strong operational project management capability with focus on delivery of outcomes
- Ability to manage complex workstreams, risks, timing, cost, and delivery
- Experience using structured project management methods
- Ability to manage cross-functional teams without direct authority
- Ability to drive actions to closure and elevate early when blocked
- Strong communication skills, including engagement with senior stakeholders
- Experience supporting Procurement processes and supplier management basics
- Experience providing operational guidance to stakeholders (buyers, suppliers, cross-functional teams)
- Demonstrable skills and experience of producing and providing presentations to a Board standard
Practical & Technical Knowledge
- Supply chain sustainability and decarbonisation (including Scope 3 concepts)
- Sustainability target setting and delivery (e.g., science-based target style approaches)
- Supplier sustainability measurement tools / methods (e.g., rating systems, audit frameworks)
- Carbon accounting concepts and/or GHG Protocol aligned thinking (at a working level)
- PCF and/or LCA delivery (even if supported by specialists)
Working knowledge (or ability to learn fast) of
- Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)
- LkSG (German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act)
- EU Directive 2000/53/EC (End-of-Life Vehicles)
Qualifications
- Degree in Engineering, Sustainability, Supply Chain or Business
- Relevant professional certifications (e.g. ESG, LCA, Procurement)
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