Overview

As a Senior Sustainability Strategy Manager you will drive work to continuously develop Heathrow's strategic approach to sustainability, with a focus on understanding and delivering impact on priority issues, as defined by a robust materiality process.

You will also ensure that Heathrow's overarching sustainability strategy aligns with Heathrow's business strategy, and with topic-specific sustainability strategies and plans, and work with teams across the business to ensure it is clearly interpreted for key stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Regularly review, update and strengthen Heathrow’s sustainability strategy, helping to set the strategic direction for the company and driving a rigorous and structured approach to identifying sustainability priorities
• Monitor and understand emerging external trends in sustainable business to ensure Heathrow understands its strategic context and maintains a leadership approach
• Create strategic alignment between the sustainability strategy and the corporate strategy through the development of strong working relationships with key strategic people
• Develop tools, approaches and guidance to help embed and align sustainability strategy with key business processes, for example supply chain management, governance and business planning
• Manage a cross-functional programme of engagement to ensure that the sustainability strategy is translated into a suite of roadmaps, annual targets and activity, with ownership clearly defined and aligned across Heathrow
• Clearly interpret of Heathrow’s sustainability strategy for use across the business and with external stakeholders, ensuring there is clarity on where collaboration would be beneficial

Qualifications

• Demonstrable interest in Heathrow’s strategic agenda and the sustainability issues facing the aviation sector
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills coupled with a creative and innovative approach to identifying solutions
• Excellent written and oral communication, to interact and influence credibly and effectively with a wide range of stakeholders including senior management and external partners
• Comfortable with corporate governance and processes, with the ability to prepare high quality reports, papers and materials
• Experience of working with teams of internal and external stakeholders with an open, straightforward and collaborative style
• Adaptable and comfortable navigating ambiguity and change
• Strong leadership capability to motivate and develop junior members of the team and influence colleagues in other teams
• Exceptional attention to detail, with strong organisational skills
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