Sustainability Manager - Carbon

We're looking for a Sustainability Manager, specialising in environmental and carbon data, preferably with built environment experience. Accounting and analysis play a key role in measuring, managing, and reducing our negative impacts to climate and other planetary issues, and working toward evidencing our positive impact in the long run.

You could be a Sustainability Manager, Carbon Accountant, or Carbon Specialist, looking for your next exciting opportunity in the sustainability space.

Our Virgin Family

Join the Virgin Group – a diverse collective driving change, enhancing customer experience, and having a blast. We're daring, disrupting industries from finance to space, united as part of the Virgin Family.

Virgin Management, the heart of Virgin, nurtures the brand globally. Our diverse, 180-strong team in London and New York, supports every facet of the Virgin empire, including Virgin Unite, our entrepreneurial foundation, and Virgin Start-Up, empowering UK entrepreneurs. Working in synergy with various Virgin entities globally, our interests are as diverse as travel, health, music, media, finance, and space. Our unique work culture and purpose unite us.

To create a thriving world through entrepreneurial initiatives. Our work revolves around:

• Incubating courageous collectives
• Backing entrepreneurial solutions
• Convening purposeful communities
• Challenging unacceptable issues

Tell me more

• Collect and manage data collection, related to the carbon emissions across the Virgin group.
• Work with the sustainability team in measuring and reporting our progress against emissions reduction targets.
• Develop framework, process, and control to standardise data collected including implementation of robust review controls. Work to enable accurate and transparent disclosure in our purpose and sustainability reports, and regulatory submissions.
• Ensure compliance with industry-leading greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting and reporting standards, such as the GHG Protocol.
• Steer efforts to analyse carbon data to identify trends and opportunities for emissions reduction.
• Be the in-house expert on relevant regulations and ESG reporting standards.
• Conduct life cycle assessments to evaluate the environmental impact of investments, operations, products, and/or services core to our business.
• Create and co-develop sophisticated types of environmental analysis, which help bring detail to a business’ climate impact.
• Engage stakeholders, including colleagues across Virgin, and with our external service providers and partners. Striving to put our purpose, traits, and values into practice every day.
• Partner with colleagues and consultants to co-develop and inform risk registers and develop reporting under TCFD.

What you’ll need

• Knowledge of carbon data, including scope 1,2 & 3 accounting
• Experience responding to reporting frameworks (e.g., IFRS, TFD and SECR)
• Experience with non-financial data reporting
• To be comfortable working with specialised software tools and platforms for carbon (a.k.a. greenhouse gas (GHG)) accounting, emissions tracking, and data analysis
• Experience as a qualified management accountant, carbon accountant or sustainability carbon specialist with built environment experience.
• Project management experience
• Experience managing and dealing with multiple workstreams and senior stakeholders.

The extra details

Role type: Permanent

Location: London hub & your home space

Working hours: Full time - We embrace flexible working. Let us know what hours empower you to be at your best both professionally and personally, we’ll try to find a perfect match for you and us.

Benefits: Dive into a fast-paced, evolving workspace, where your hard work and dedication is rewarded. Fancy unlimited holidays and weekly yoga? That's the Virgin way. We champion inclusion, wellbeing, and purposeful points strategies. Further benefits include flexible working, healthcare, dental schemes, pension contributions and an employee rewards scheme.

Closing date: 19 January 2024

Some of the attributes that define a Virgin person just can’t be quantified in words. We pride ourselves on welcoming people from all walks of life, with all sorts of skill sets. Most recently, we successfully campaigned to add ‘Dyslexic Thinking’ as a skill on LinkedIn. Any uniqueness is a strength and will be considered an asset to our workforce. If there is something you would like us to consider, to tailor the hiring process to the way you work best, please don’t hesitate to let us know.  

Excited to make each day rewarding? Don't worry if you don't match every detail of the job - we'd still love to learn more about you!