Group Carbon and Sustainability Reporting Manager

Job Title: Group Carbon and Sustainability Reporting Manager

Location: Leicester, LE19 

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Group Carbon and Sustainability Reporting Manager and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes?

At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers. When you join us as a Group Carbon and Sustainability Reporting Manager, you’ll benefit from:

• Competitive salary
• Car Allowance
• 5* housebuilder - Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role?

We are recruiting for a Group Carbon and Sustainability Reporting Manager to join our Group Sustainability team. Reporting to the Group Sustainability Director, the position has two key areas of focus: supporting the business in delivering our Carbon Transition Plan, and managing sustainability data capture and reporting. The role will be highly varied with interaction across all group functions and operating businesses, and external stakeholders. We would expect candidates to have around a wealth of relevant experience, with a background in sustainability from similar sector organisations or other relevant expertise.

Primary Responsibilities

Delivering our carbon transition plans

• Working closely with Group teams and business operations to drive the delivery and progression of our Net Zero Carbon strategy and Transition Plans.
• Tracking and analysing performance against our carbon targets, producing internal reports, modelling future business scenarios and emissions profiles for all carbon scopes 1,2 and 3.
• Providing carbon expertise, to include whole life carbon, embodied carbon measurement frameworks, tools and standards.
• Facilitating the annual GHG reporting process ensuring adherence to timelines, provision of data from third parties, and quality control of data and improvement planning.
• Supporting business units in carbon reduction, supply chain engagement, and representing the business externally on industry working groups.

Sustainability data management and reporting

• Lead on sustainability reporting, producing high quality sustainability data reports for internal sustainability performance monitoring, and external reporting.
• Managing and improving sustainability data collection, ensuring high quality sustainability data capture systems and controls are in place.
• Managing the assurance and verification activities for non-financial metrics, and internal controls required to ensure accurate reporting.
• Reporting to a range of disclosure and performance surveys and benchmarks to include CDP, and investor ratings, and identifying opportunities for improvement.

What experience do I need?

• High level of experience in carbon management, to include net zero carbon strategies, and transition plans, from the building / construction sector or a relevant industry or consultancy.
• Experience of scope 3 reporting, whole life carbon, embodied carbon measurements, tools and standards, relevant to construction.
• Proven expertise in sustainability data management, collection systems and internal controls to ensure high quality, accurate information and reports.
• The ability to interpret data and produce high quality sustainability performance reports for internal and external audiences.
• Experience of sustainability reporting frameworks, responding to ESG indices, and CDP.
• Relevant degree level education, to include sustainability, environmental economics, finance, data management, reporting.
• High degree of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Highly computer literate with advanced excel, data management skillset, understanding of sustainability software models, and platforms.
• Excellent communication skills, and presentation skills with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences, and work professionally at all levels.
• Ability to work with high productivity in a hybrid work environment.

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