Sustainability Specialist

Colt provides network, voice, and data centre services to thousands of businesses around the world, allowing them to focus on delivering their business goals instead of the underlying infrastructure.

Job Title: Sustainability Specialist (Ethics & Human Rights)
Location: Spain, Portugal
Set up: Hybrid and Flexible
This is a fixed term opportunity for 18 months.

The Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) team supports and facilitates the development of a robust ESG strategy, as well as ensuring that our sustainability activities go beyond just compliance. We want to deliver an industry-leading ESG programme as well as raise awareness among all Colt employees. As a global leader in digital infrastructure, we are taking ownership of reducing our environmental impact as well as strengthening our social and governance responsibilities. This role will support the business in delivering the ESG strategy and vision (in particular energy transition and energy efficiency decarbonisation activity); through leading workstream activity in collaboration with colleagues across the group as well as strengthening our customer value proposition.

Typical tasks and responsibilities will include:

1. Lead and further develop additional ESG workstreams to drive forward the decarbonisation strategy.
2. Work with ESG Data Analyst and external consultants to develop metrics and dashboards which provide meaningful insights for all levels and functions.
3. Align with O&E and energy teams to strengthen ESG understanding, drive the Scope 1 & 2 decarbonisation strategy and embed EU Taxonomy requirements.
4. Partner with Ops & Engineering and Energy teams to drive renewable energy transition and energy efficiency activity and ensure we are on track to meet our Science-based Targets.
5. Link with the ESG Executive to define and drive internal and external ESG communications requirements.
6. Communicate with internal colleagues of all levels on progress against the Carbon Roadmaps and decarbonisation Strategy.
7. Give advice and support to colleagues on all sustainability matters, recommend and develop policies that drive a greater understanding of sustainability to embed across the business.
8. Partner and liaise with relevant external bodies to strengthen our approach and find mutually beneficial sustainability solutions (i.e. REBA, RE100, UNGC, IRENA).
9. Stay abreast of industry changes and best practice approaches to energy transition and energy efficiency and translate into meaningful business action.
10. Scope out innovative pilot projects to support Colt's Environmental strategy and achievement of Science-Based Targets, including research, planning, and implementation.
11. Act as the link between the ESG team and Sales colleagues to drive the ESG value proposition for customers as well as assisting with ad hoc bid support requests.

Skills & Experience:

1. Prior working experience in the sustainability or energy field.
2. Clear understanding of decarbonisation activities to drive change.
3. Excellent communication skills and English business level; we want to bring the sustainability narrative to life.
4. Collaborative approach to sometimes complex sustainability solutions.
5. Strong understanding of the sustainability landscape with the ability to explain in a meaningful way to various stakeholder levels.
6. Prior experience researching and writing reports and briefing notes accessible to a wide and varied audience.
7. Leadership of workstreams across a global organisation.
8. Excellent organisational skills.
9. Sustainability qualification is desirable.
10. Previous experience in a global function and business would be advantageous.

Negotiation, Information Reporting, Environmental Compliance, Ethics, Influencing, Environmental Regulation.

A bachelor's or master's degree in business, human resources, or related field.

Colt is a growing business that is investing in its people. We offer skill development, learning pathways, and accreditation to help our people perform at their best, regardless of role and location. The company supports diversity and inclusion in the workplace and has signed the Diversity Charter.

In addition to offering competitive salaries and incentive plans, a range of benefits and local rewards packages are offered to staff. Colt recognises the importance of a work-life balance.

Some benefit examples are:

1. Relaxed dress code.
2. Two days annually to spend on volunteering opportunities.
3. 39 hours working week and additional days off as per Colt's own collective bargaining agreement.
4. Benefit package that includes life insurance, private health insurance, and pension plan. In addition, flexible benefits scheme.
5. Lunch vouchers or childcare vouchers.
6. Access to a virtual business school for ongoing learning.
7. Business mentoring.
8. International environment with employees from more than 35 different nationalities.