Senior Corporate Sustainability and Social Impact Manager

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About the role

About us At Trainline, our purpose is to empower greener travel choices, connecting people and places. https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.  Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄  We’re Europe’s leading independent rail platform, helping millions of travellers find and book the best-value rail and coach journeys across our app, website and partner channels. Our job is to make the green travel choice the best choice. By building a better train travel experience, we help more people choose rail - creating a positive impact for customers, our business and the planet. We’re a team of more than 1,000 Trainliners from over 50 nationalities, working across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. Now is a brilliant time to join us and help shape the future of travel. Introducing the Trainline Sustainability Team 👋 At Trainline, environmental sustainability sits at the heart of what we do. Through our technology and data, we make rail travel easier and help people choose more sustainable ways to get around. Rail already offers a far greener alternative to flying or driving, and we believe we have a genuine role to play in supporting the wider industry, businesses and governments to hit their own emissions targets. We were one of the first tech companies to have science-based net zero targets officially validated by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi), committing to net zero by 2040 and a 55% reduction in scope 1 and 2 emissions by 2030. This role sits between our Legal and People team, working closely with our Company Secretary and Head of Employee Experience. You'll take the lead on embedding our emissions data platform, driving supplier engagement on our net-zero journey, and acting as an ambassador for corporate sustainability both inside and outside the business. A key and expanding part of this role is owning the employee experience of sustainability and social responsibility at Trainline - bringing to life what it means to 'Do Good' for our people. This includes leading our Trainliners for Good social impact framework, managing our charity partnerships across all offices, and creating meaningful opportunities for employees to give back to their communities. You'll collaborate closely with teams across Trainline who own supplier relationships and data, as well as with senior stakeholders, to keep momentum going on one of our most important long-term commitments. In this role as the Senior Corporate Sustainability Manager, you will...🚄 - Own the ongoing delivery of our SBTi-validated emissions reduction strategy, with a strong focus on supplier engagement and reducing scope 3 emissions - Lead the continued rollout and adoption of Watershed, our GHG data platform, ensuring it is fully embedded ahead of the financial year reporting cycle - Be the ambassador for corporate sustainability, confidently presenting our progress and priorities to audiences across the business and building genuine engagement with the topic - Build strong working relationships with the teams who own supplier relationships - Support the development of frameworks for sustainability-linked disclosure requirements and help put them into action - Identify and lead workstreams that improve our ESG ratings over time - Help shape how we measure and report on emerging areas, such as the emissions impact of AI, where established methodologies don't yet exist Ambassador for Sustainability and Social Impact A significant part of this role is being the driving force behind making our sustainability and social impact programmes real for our people day to day. - Be the ambassador for corporate sustainability, confidently presenting our progress and priorities to audiences across the business and building genu

Responsibilities

What you'll do

• Own the ongoing delivery of SBTi-validated emissions reduction strategy, focusing on supplier engagement and reducing scope 3 emissions.
• Lead the continued rollout and adoption of Watershed GHG data platform, embedding it ahead of the financial year reporting cycle.
• Act as an ambassador for corporate sustainability, presenting progress and priorities and building engagement.
• Build strong working relationships with teams owning supplier relationships.
• Support the development and implementation of frameworks for sustainability-linked disclosure requirements.
• Identify and lead workstreams to improve ESG ratings over time.
• Help shape measurement and reporting on emerging areas like AI emissions.
• Own the employee experience of sustainability and social responsibility.
• Lead the Trainliners for Good social impact framework.
• Manage charity partnerships across all offices.
• Create meaningful opportunities for employees to give back to their communities.