Sustainability Lead in London

Aurora Utilities is seeking to appoint a Sustainability Lead to lead the Company's sustainability agenda and reporting across the organisation, while acting as the primary sustainability interface between Aurora, the market, its private equity sponsor and other stakeholders. The role will translate Aurora's sustainability ambitions into practical delivery, ensuring strong environmental outcomes, robust ESG governance, credible investor-grade reporting and compliance with relevant regulatory obligations. Working closely with senior leaders, the finance function, regulators and operational teams, the Sustainability Lead will embed sustainability and ESG considerations into decision‐making, growth strategy, capital allocation and day‐to‐day operations, supported by high-quality data and clear controls.

The successful candidate will combine sustainability expertise with relevant hands-on ESG reporting experience, enabling Aurora to evidence progress, meet stakeholder requirements, and support value creation across our assets.

• Sustainability, ESG Strategy and Governance: Develop, shape and deliver the business' Sustainability and ESG Strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, the Private Equity investors value-creation plan, regulatory expectations and long‐term resilience. Design and implement an ESG reporting operating model (data owners, controls, timelines and governance) to meet various stakeholder requirements including private equity sponsor, fund, lender and customer requirements. Embed sustainability and ESG principles into corporate governance, policies, investment cases and operational planning, including clear accountabilities and decision-making gates. Advise senior leaders on ESG risks and opportunities, emerging legislation and standards (e.g., CSRD/ESRS, SECR, ISSB/IFRS S1/S2, TCFD), and industry best practice; prepare materials for Board, investor and fund-level governance forums.
• Carbon and Net Zero Leadership: Lead the Group approach to carbon management across Scopes 1 and 2, and develop a pragmatic roadmap for relevant Scope 3 categories aligned to the business model and fund expectations. Improve the quality, consistency and assurance-readiness of ESG and carbon data (methodologies, evidence packs, controls and audit trails) to support credible reporting and real emissions reduction. Develop and innovate sector specific climate change KPIs to evidence the linkage between the business of enabling the energy transition for the Group (carbon emissions savings enabled or other as appropriate).
• ESG Reporting, Disclosures and External Requirements: Deliver clear, accurate and investor-grade ESG reporting for the private equity sponsor, fund stakeholders, lenders, customers and regulators, including periodic dashboards and annual disclosures. Lead ESG assessments and questionnaires (e.g., GRESB) and support fund-level requirements (e.g., SFDR and EU Taxonomy inputs where relevant), ensuring consistency, strong performance and well-evidenced responses; coordinate internal and external assurance activity as required.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build effective working relationships across the business to champion sustainability, improve ESG data ownership and drive measurable performance improvement. Lead engagement and capability-building activities to improve ESG understanding and accountability at all levels, including training for data owners and senior leadership. Represent Aurora externally on sustainability and ESG matters with regulators, industry bodies, customers, lenders and the fund's stakeholder network.

• Required: 3-5 years' experience in a similar ESG/Sustainability reporting role. Demonstrable experience developing and executing an ESG strategy and managing reporting in a relevant industry, including governance, reporting cycles and stakeholder requirements. Experience operating within (or alongside) regulated utilities and environmental regulatory frameworks, with the ability to translate requirements into practical controls and delivery. Awareness of SFDR and the EU Taxonomy (where applicable), and the ability to support data collection and narrative inputs for fund-level disclosures. Highly capable with ESG data, KPIs and performance metrics, including building audit trails, evidence packs and controls; confident with Excel and sustainability/ESG data systems. Strong communication, stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and supporting Board/investor reporting.
• Desirable: Strong understanding of ESG topics relevant to energy transition and regulated/asset-heavy operations (including carbon, climate risk, water, waste, biodiversity, safety and stakeholder impacts). Hands-on experience with ESG reporting frameworks and standards such as GRESB, CSRD/ESRS, SECR, GRI, ISSB/IFRS S1/S2 and/or TCFD, and coordinating responses with Finance, Risk and operations. Comfortable working in a fast-moving entrepreneurial business autonomously and to influence and effectively upskill team on relevant sustainability topics.