Corporate Sustainability Analyst

Quilter plc is a leading provider of financial advice, investments and wealth management, committed to being the UK’s best wealth manager for clients and their advisers. Quilter oversees £116.2 billion in customer investments (as at end September 2024). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management.

The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning.

Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. If you want to be bold in pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

Are you passionate about driving meaningful change and helping businesses transition to a more sustainable future? This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in shaping and driving our corporate sustainability strategy. The role goes beyond just analysis – the successful candidate will be given the autonomy to engage with stakeholders across the business to assist in developing our strategy and drive change.

We are looking for a proactive, ambitious individual with a background in Corporate Sustainability and an understanding of environmental risks, opportunities, impacts and dependencies. They will need to be comfortable with various levels of stakeholder engagement and managing multiple workstreams or initiatives simultaneously. Most importantly, the individual will need to have passion for sustainability and driving change across our organisation.

As a Corporate Sustainability Analyst at Quilter, you will be at the forefront of our efforts to embed sustainability across our organisation, working with stakeholders throughout Quilter to develop our corporate climate and environment strategy across our operations and our supply chain. You will assist in developing and running initiatives to progress towards our sustainability and emissions reduction targets. This position offers the opportunity to work at the heart of our sustainability efforts, collaborating with various departments and contributing to the broader corporate vision. The role is perfect for someone who is passionate about sustainability and thrives on establishing strong working relationships to deliver change.

• Driving Emission Reductions: Partnering with property teams to identify opportunities to reduce the carbon footprint of our offices and operational spaces.
• Colleague Engagement: Developing and delivering programmes to raise awareness and embed sustainability into our workplace culture.
• Supply Chain Collaboration: Working closely with suppliers to reduce the carbon impact of the goods and services we procure, ensuring alignment with our sustainability objectives.
• Strategy Development: Playing a key role in shaping and delivering our climate transition plan, identifying opportunities and setting new targets and KPIs to measure our progress.
• Performance Monitoring: Tracking, analysing, and reporting on sustainability performance, ensuring progress towards key milestones and targets.
• Climate-related risk assessment: Work collaboratively across Quilter to assist in the identification and assessment of climate-related risks and opportunities and own the physical climate-related risk assessment for our offices. Provide support on the production of our regulatory and voluntary sustainability reporting (TCFD, TNFD, CDP, UNGC etc.)

• Previous experience in a sustainability focused role.
• You will be passionate about sustainability; be able to engage with different audiences and take ownership and responsibility whilst working collaboratively with colleagues.
• Ability to develop and plan sustainability initiatives.
• An understanding of physical climate-related risks.
• An understanding of corporate carbon emissions, but also sustainability factors beyond climate change.
• An understanding of the TCFD/TNFD Frameworks (climate and nature-related risks, opportunities, impacts and dependencies) would be desirable but not essential.
• Knowledge or experience in operational or value chain emissions reductions initiatives with a focus on office space.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement.
• You will have an effective communication style and have very strong writing skills, be solution-oriented and have a flexible approach to helping others deliver on team tasks.
• You will also have strong organisational and project management skills, good attention to detail, strong analytical skills and proactively collaborate with others.

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Private Medical Insurance: Single cover as standard with options to increase cover to include your partner or children.
• Life Assurance: 4x your salary.
• Income Protection: 75% of salary, less state benefits, payable after 26 weeks of absence.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.