WSH is the parent company for leading brands operating in the catering and hospitality sectors. Our brands operate in diverse sectors, including:

• Public spaces – such as the Science Museum, St Pancras Champagne bar and Dublin Zoo
• Workspaces – from power stations to investment banks
• Education – primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities

A central support office provides financial, HR, IT, Supply Chain and other administrative services to the group companies each of whom retains its own personality and who operate across a number of catering and hospitality markets.

Recent acquisitions provide the group with new opportunities and include prestigious locations such as Musee Du Louvre in Paris and partnerships with established chefs such as Claus Meyers in Denmark.

As a Sustainability Project Manager you will deliver a variety of projects ranging from, for example, food waste, deposit return scheme, packaging optimisation, decarbonisation initiatives, environmental assessments and reporting to third party certifications and accreditations. You will service a variety of brands and businesses within the WSH family across all regions where we operate, currently UK, Ireland, France, Denmark, Netherlands, Belgium and Norway.

The Sustainability Project manager will independently manage projects from initial brief through to engagement, training, delivery and evaluation before successfully handling over to the operations team to manage as part of day to day operations.

The project portfolio can include delivering projects such as:

• Food waste reporting, establishing a bespoke food waste reporting and reduction platform within operations down to site level.
• Packaging, circularity and reusables, implementing more circular packaging solution in line with DRS, PPWR and EPR-requirements.
• Environmental assessments, conducting initial assessments, building subsequent actions plans and lead initial implementations before handing over to operations.
• Decarbonisation initiatives, delivering a wide variety of initiatives both upstream and downstream in the value chain, in collaboration with internal and external functions and stakeholders.
• Reporting, whether carbon, food waste or other, ensuring reporting is available, understood and insights acted upon.
• Third party certifications, managing new or recurring external accreditation projects, from kick off to closure, ensuring a resource efficient, timely and high quality process.

Key Accountabilities include:

• To lead implementation, delivery and reporting of business-specific sustainability projects across WSH operating companies to ensure timely delivery of WSH’s Step Up targets. The role operates across all WSH regions in UK and Europe.
• The focus of the role is to project manage and lead implementation of sustainability initiatives across sites operated by WSH’s family of businesses, from project kick-off through to BAU handover. Lead business and or client accreditation processes, deliver technical training, support data collection and reporting, track progress, and identify and implement gap closing activities.
• We champion the Supply Chain and Procurement values (Trusted, Authentic and Entrepreneurial) and incorporate these into our daily tasks and ways of working, both as individuals and as a team. 
• The role can be placed in either London (Holborn) or Reading and reports into WSH Senior Sustainability Manager. We operate a hybrid working policy with minimum 3 days office attendance per week.  

Project management and implementation (80%):

• Lead the delivery of key projects including kick off and closure; project planning, setting timelines and milestones; execution and communication; monitoring progress, identifying bottlenecks and challenges and proposing how to resolve them; capturing key learnings and feeding those back to the core team for continuous improvement; deliver technical training, and; ensure a successful hand over to the operational team for BAU. 
• Conduct or support environmental site assessments, support development of actions plans, monitor delivery of actions, consolidate and share best practices at OpCo level.
• Co-lead OpCo and/or client 3rd party accreditation and certification.

Data collection and reporting (20%):

• Prepare annual reports at site and OpCo level covering all Step up targets including analytics, using key insights to suggest actions and gap closing activities.
• Support in-year environmental tracking, reporting and analytics using established data sources and reports.

We are looking for someone with:

• A relevant degree in an Environmental/Sustainability subject
• A proven track record of delivering/leading Environmental/Sustainability projects
• 3-5 years experience in an environmental sustainability capacity
• Excellent project management skills
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Theoretical or lived understanding of environmental challenges facing the food & hospitality industry is a plus
• Commercially aware
• Pragmatic with strong focus on getting things done
• Self-starter
• Able to manage individual time and workload against clear priorities
• Fluent in spoken and written English and proficient in French

And in return, we offer:

• 25 days holiday (plus public holidays)
• Plus your birthday off
• Enhanced pension
• Life Assurance cover
• Discounts available on the high street shops, holidays, gyms and cinemas
• Wellbeing assistance
• Volunteering Days
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Secondary Carer leave
• Wedding/Commitment day leave
• Bespoke training and development, including apprenticeships
• Competitive salary around £48,000 to £50,000 per annum based on experience