ISS Facility Services UK
Sustainability Lead
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Sustainability Lead
Sustainability Lead
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Flexible – Home-Based with National Travel (ISS or Client Office Base) Travel: Regular travel across the UK, including visits to key client sites
About the Role
We're looking for a passionate and knowledgeable Sustainability Lead to support a high-contract role, driving environmental performance and helping deliver meaningful change across a diverse property portfolio.
If you're passionate about environmental sustainability, enjoy working with data and stakeholders, and want to make a tangible impact across a nationally significant contract, we'd love to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate sustainability activities across the contract, ensuring compliance with contractual commitments while supporting the client’s wider environmental ambitions.
- Act as a key sustainability partner to both the client and operational teams, providing expert advice, analysing performance data, and identifying opportunities to improve environmental outcomes.
- Deliver against the contract Sustainability Management Plan and agreed sustainability commitments.
- Track, analyse, and report on sustainability performance, including carbon emissions, waste, social value, and other environmental KPIs.
- Produce high-quality sustainability reports and performance updates for the client.
- Use sustainability data to demonstrate progress, identify risks and opportunities, and drive continuous improvement.
- Build strong relationships with stakeholders and act as a trusted sustainability partner.
- Collaborate with operational, property, and account teams to embed sustainability into daily service delivery.
- Identify opportunities to align the client’s sustainability ambitions with ISS’s wider sustainability strategy.
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About You
We're looking for someone with a strong environmental sustainability background who can confidently engage stakeholders, interpret data, and influence positive change.
Essential Experience & Knowledge
- Experience delivering sustainability initiatives within Facilities Management, Government, or Public Sector environments.
- Strong understanding of:
- Environmental management systems
- Carbon reporting
- Waste management
- Wider environmental sustainability topics
- Experience working directly with clients and managing stakeholder relationships.
- Knowledge of current environmental legislation and sustainability best practices.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and communicate insights clearly.
- Experience preparing routine sustainability reports and performance updates.
- Excellent communication and influencing skills.
- The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across multiple teams.
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About the Company
ISS is a global leader in workplace and facilities management, helping organisations create environments where people and businesses can thrive. We partner with clients across sectors—from healthcare to finance—to deliver smart, sustainable solutions that improve everyday experiences.
Our Commitments
- Inclusive employer, committed to diversity, wellbeing, and supporting the Armed Forces community.
- Disability Confident employer, providing support for accessible recruitment processes.
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