Head of Climate and Nature

Job Description:

Head of Climate and Nature

London / Hybrid

Competitive salary, bonus, pension, car allowance

Permanent role

Closing Date for applications – 30th November 2024

We make health happen!

We’re a leading health insurer and healthcare provider, with care homes, health centres, dental practices and hospitals. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. We reinvest profits into providing more and better healthcare for the benefit of current and future customers. Your input will support Bupa to deliver our ambitious sustainability commitments as well as our purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

Acting as a strategic partner to the Group Director of Sustainability, this is a high-profile, high-impact role in the Sustainability Leadership Team. You will engage with senior stakeholders across Bupa to ensure delivery of sustainability projects in line with commercial objectives. Implementing strategy in a fast-paced, outcomes-driven environment and displaying energetic project delivery will be key to success in this role.

Key duties:

• Co-ordinate and oversee sustainability project delivery, providing solutions and pathways across a matrixed and multi-stakeholder environment

• Lead fast-paced, impactful change and continuous improvement to help Bupa achieve its strategic sustainability objectives

• Drive the decarbonisation of scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions in line with science-based targets, our public net zero commitment and various interim internal targets

• Develop and drive our ambitions and commitments for the restoration and regeneration of nature to support human health

• Develop KPIs to monitor performance against sustainability strategies and drive delivery against them both within the sustainability teams and more widely across the organisation

• Manage Bupa’s adoption of relevant environment and climate change frameworks so as to support delivery

• Lead a team of experts, data analysts, and colleagues in Market Unit sustainability as well as other functional teams across climate action & nature

• Present confidently at C-suite and Board level governance and reporting meetings, and engage other key stakeholders in support of driving outcomes at those meetings

• Monitor macro sustainability, healthcare and relevant public policy trends (public attitudes, customer and regulatory sentiment, stakeholder positions, national and supranational policy)

Key Skills/Qualifications needed for this role:

• Excellent project delivery and oversight skills, proven track record of large-scale complex programme delivery

• Gravitas to engage and influence senior stakeholders (C-suite / Board level)

• Commercial acumen and ‘stakeholder and organisational awareness’ to manage project implementation and delivery alongside broader business objectives

• Ability to lead cross-functional teams through complex transformation

• Proactive mindset and able to work autonomously with energy & passion

• Sustainability sector knowledge is advantageous

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

In this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, option to buy or sell

• 30% Management Bonus Scheme (annual, discretionary)

• Company car allowance (paid as cash)

• Bupa medical insurance for you and your family as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life assurance

• Free health assessment for you & your spouse

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gyms are available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Locations:

Angel Court, London